R. Keller Kimbrough
Research Interests
Keller Kimbrough's research interests include the literature and art of late-Heian, medieval, and early Edo-period Japan. Kimbrough has been particularly interested in medieval poetry and poetics, illustrated Buddhist fiction (辞迟辞驳颈锄艒蝉丑颈), illustrated temple and shrine histories (jisha engi), eighteenth-century children's literature, and, more recently, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century 办艒飞补办补尘补颈 samurai tales, seventeenth-century 办补苍补锄艒蝉丑颈 prose fiction, and the early seventeenth-century puppet theater.听
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Publications
- Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2008)
- Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)
- Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018), co-edited with Haruo Shirane

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鈫 Hello, Kitty! 听(My Close Encounter with a 驰艒办补颈 in Japan)
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