

Modernism and its Endings: Kajii Motojirō as Transitional Writer Stephen Dodd, SOAS, University of London Literary Appropriations of the Modern: The Case of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and August Strindberg Mats Karlsson, University of Sydney Lippit, University of California, Los AngelesĬosmopolitanism and Anxiety of Influence in Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s Kirishitan mono Rebecca Suter, University of Sydney MODERNISM IN JAPANESE FICTION FROM AKUTAGAWA TO SHIINA A Modernist Nostalgia: The Colonial Landscape of Enlightenment Tokyo in Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and Edogawa Rampo Seiji M. ‘Overcoming Modernity’ and Conflicting Views of Japan’s Cultural Mission: Inoue Tetsujirō and Sawayanagi Masatarō Yushi Ito, Victoria University of WellingtonĪwakening between Science, Art and Ethics: Variations of Japanese Buddhist Modernism, 1890–1945 James Mark Shields, Bucknell University The Modern in Meiji Japan-and Elsewhere in Time and Place Ken Henshall, University of Canterbury Modernism and Modernity Charles Shirō Inouye, Tufts University Rewriting the Literary History of Japanese Modernism Suzuki Sadami, International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, Kyoto RETHINKING JAPANESE MODERNISM Japanese Modernism Reconsidered Roy Starrs, University of Otago Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. ISBN 978 90 04 21003 5 Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rethinking Japanese modernism / edited by Roy Starrs. Cover calligraphy of the Japanese word modanizumu (meaning ‘modernism’) by Kyoko Goto. Cover illustration: photo strip from left to right: Kawabe Masahisa, ‘Mekamizumu’ (1924, Itabashi Art Museum), Koga Harue, ‘The Sea’ (1929, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo), Yorozu Tetsugoro, ‘Self Portrait with Red Eyes’ (1912-13, Iwate Museum of Art), and Inagaki Chusei, ‘Tayū’ (1919, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto).
