Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales, co-edited with Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).听
Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater听(New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).听
Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early Modern Japan, co-edited with Satoko Shimazaki (Boulder: University of Colorado Center for Asian Studies, 2011).听
Vernacular Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Literature, co-edited with Hank Glassman. Special issue of the听Japanese Journal of Religious Studies听(vol. 36, no. 2 [2009]).听
Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan听(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2008).听
Articles and Book Chapters
鈥Potato Puppet Theater/Beating the Beauties: A Seventeenth-Century Japanese Picture Book for Children,鈥 co-authored with Pia Jolliffe,听Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth听16, no. 1 (2023): 197-210.听
鈥淪taging Senseless Violence: Early听闯艒谤耻谤颈听Puppet Theater and the Culture of Performance,鈥 in听The Tokugawa World, ed. Gary P. Leupp and De-Min Tao (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), 578-593.听
鈥淐asting Spells: Combat Charms and Secret Scrolls in the Warrior Fiction of Late Medieval Japan,鈥澨Monumenta Nipponica听74, no. 2 (2019): 211-248.
鈥淧ushing Filial Piety:听The Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars听and an Osaka Publisher鈥檚 鈥楤eneficial Books for Women,鈥欌澨Japan Review听34 (2019): 43-68.听
鈥淪hibukawa Seiemon no jokunsho to听狈颈箩奴蝉丑颈办艒,鈥澨Setsuwa bungaku kenky奴听54 (2019): 117-127.听
鈥淭rials of Devotion: Orphaned Children and the Boundaries of Horror in Japanese Buddhist Fiction,鈥 in听Buddhist Asia: Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations,听ed. Nicholas S. Brasovan and Micheline M. Soong (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2019), 71-92.听
鈥淗on no y艒kai, y艒kai no hon: t艒zai no tsukumogami k艒,鈥 in听Higashi no y艒kai, Nishi no monsut膩: s艒z艒ryoku no bunka hikaku, ed. Tokuda Kazuo (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2018), 190-205.
鈥淣eko no Shuten D艒ji to听Nezumi no 艑eyama emaki,鈥 in听Nihon bungaku no tenb艒 wo hiraku, dai ni kan: kaiga, im膿ji no kair艒, ed. Deguchi Hisanori (Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2017), 192-97.
鈥淟ate Medieval Popular Fiction and Narrated Genres: Otogiz艒shi, K艒wakamai, Sekky艒, and Ko-j艒ruri,鈥 in听The听Cambridge History of Japanese Literature, ed. Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, with David Lurie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 355-69.
鈥淏loody Hell! Reading Boys鈥 Books in Seventeenth Century Japan,鈥澨Asian Ethnology听74, no. 1 (2015): 111-139.
鈥淭engu no hanashi:听Tengu no dairi听ni okeru rokud艒 annai,鈥 in听Kai鈥檌, y艒kai bunka no dent艒 to s艒z艒: uchi to soto no shiten kara, ed. Komatsu Kazuhiko (Kyoto: Nichibunken, 2015): 85-90.
鈥淭okugawa-ke no oni by艒sha: kawaraban听艑eyama Ch艒don D艒ji taiji no zu听honkoku to sh艒kai,鈥澨Rikky艒 Daigaku Nihon bungaku听111 (2014): 107-113.
鈥淧reachers and Playwrights:听Ikuta Atsumori听and the Roots of Noh,鈥 in听Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of N艒 Plays of the Genpei War, ed. Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2013), 211-229.
鈥淪acred Charnel Visions: Painting the Dead in Illustrated Scrolls of听The Demon Shuten D艒ji,鈥 in听Japanese Visual Culture: Performance, Media, and Text, ed. Kenji Kobayashi, Maori Sait艒, and Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature, 2013), 35-47.
鈥淥ni monogatari no fuj艒 d艒satsu:听Shuten D艒ji emaki听ni okeru igai by艒sha,鈥 in听Amerika ni watatta monogatari-e: emaki, by艒bu, ehon, ed. Kokubungaku Kenky奴 Shiry艒kan (Tokyo: Perikansha, 2013), 63-74.
鈥淏attling Tengu, Battling Conceit: Visualizing Abstraction in听The Tale of the Handcart Priest,鈥澨Japanese Journal of Religious Studies听39, no. 2 (fall 2012): 275-305.
鈥Ko-Atsumori听办艒:听Heike monogatari听Atsumori-tan to namae no igi,鈥澨Densh艒 bungaku kenky奴听59 (May 2010): 51-59.
鈥淭ext and Illustration in Medieval Japanese Fiction鈥/鈥淐h奴sei bungaku no moji-tekisuto to kaiga-im膿ji k艒,鈥 in听New Horizons in Japanese Literary Studies, ed. Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2009), 105-107 (English) and 117-119 (Japanese).听
鈥淏onn艒 sh艒metsu monogatari:听Tameyo no s艒shi听to ch奴sei bungaku ni okeru sanji no kyoy艒 gendo,鈥澨齣n听Nihon bungaku no s艒z艒butsu: shoseki, shahon, emaki, ed. Suzuki Jun and Melissa McCormick (Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature, 2009), 79-89.
鈥淜usa-z艒shi ni miru otogiz艒shi juy艒,鈥澨齣n听Otogiz艒shi: hyakka ry艒ran, ed. Tokuda Kazuo (Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2008), 601-18.听
鈥淥迟辞驳颈锄艒蝉丑颈听Shuten D艒ji听/听Ibuki D艒ji听no nikushoku ron,鈥澨Kokubungaku: kaishaku to kansh艒, bessatsu听(October 2008): 141-50.
鈥淚llustrating the Classics: The Otogiz艒shi听Lazy Tar艒听in Edo Pictorial Fiction,鈥澨Japanese Language and Literature听42, no. 1 (spring 2008): 257-304.听
鈥淭ravel Writing from Hell? Minomoto no Yoriie and the Politics of听Fuji no hitoana s艒shi,鈥澨Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies听8 (2007): 112-22.
鈥淧reaching the Animal Realm in Late-Medieval Japan,鈥澨Asian Folklore Studies听65, no. 2 (fall 2006): 179-204.
鈥淭ourists in Paradise: Writing the Pure Land in Medieval Japanese Fiction,鈥澨Japanese Journal of Religious Studies听33, no. 2 (fall 2006): 269-296.
鈥淢urasaki Shikibu for Children: The Illustrated听Shinpan Murasaki Shikibu听of ca. 1747,鈥澨Japanese Language and Literature听40, no. 1 (spring 2006): 1-36.听
鈥淩eading the Miraculous Powers of Japanese Poetry: Spells, Truth Acts, and a Medieval Buddhist Poetics of the Supernatural,鈥澨Japanese Journal of Religious Studies听32, no. 1 (spring 2005): 1-33.
鈥Little Atsumori听补苍诲听The Tale of the Heike: Fiction as Commentary, and the Significance of a Name,鈥澨Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies听5 (2004): 325-36.
鈥Nomori no kagami听and the Perils of Poetic Heresy,鈥澨Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies听4 (2003): 99-114. Re-published in the online journal听Simply Haiku, May 2007.
鈥淎pocryphal Texts and Literary Identity: Sei Sh艒nagon and the听Matsushima Diary,鈥澨Monumenta Nipponica听57, no. 2 (summer 2002): 133-71.
鈥淰oices from the Feminine Margin: Izumi Shikibu and the Nuns of Kumano and Seiganji,鈥 in 鈥淧erforming Japanese Women,鈥 vol. 12:1 #23 of听Women and Performance听(2001): 59-78.听
Independent Translations
鈥淭he Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars鈥 (狈颈箩奴蝉丑颈办艒),听Japan Review听34 (2019): 69-94.
鈥Kach艒 F奴getsu,鈥澨齣n Joshua S. Mostow,听Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation听(Leiden: Brill, 2014), 311-23.
鈥Ko-Atsumori,"听颈苍听Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of N艒 Plays of the Genpei War, ed. Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2013), 247-260.听
鈥淭he Tale of the Handcart Priest鈥 (Kuruma-z艒 s艒shi). Published online as a digital supplement to听Japanese Journal of Religious Studies听39, no. 2 (fall 2012): 1-7.
Komine Kazuaki, 鈥淭ranscribing Bodies and Seeing Bodies: Unraveling Picture Scrolls,鈥 in听New Horizons in Japanese Literary Studies, ed. Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2009), 102-104.
鈥Shintokumaru,鈥 鈥Shuten D艒ji,鈥 and 鈥颁丑奴箩艒丑颈尘别,"听颈苍听Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, ed. Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 1123-50 and 1160-81.听
鈥淭he Tale of the Fuji Cave鈥 (Fuji no hitoana s艒shi). Published online as a digital supplement to听Japanese Journal of Religious Studies听33, no. 2 (fall 2006): 1-22.听
Encyclopedia Entries
鈥淪huten D艒ji鈥 and 鈥淭engu,鈥 in听The听Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters, ed. Jeffrey Weinstock (London: Ashgate, 2014), 514-516 and 529-532.
Reviews
Robert Goree,听Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan听(Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020),听Monumenta Nipponica听77, no. 2 (2022): 341-44.
Laura Moretti,听Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan听(New York: Columbia University Press, 2020),听Monumenta Nipponica听76, no. 2 (2021): 375-78.听
Doris G. Bargen,听Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors听(Honolulu: University of听Hawai鈥榠听Press, 2015), H-Asia, H-Net Reviews. March 2017.听
Alison McQueen Tokita,听Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative听(Farnham, UK, and Burlington, USA: Ashgate Publishing, 2015),听The Journal of Japanese Studies听42, no. 2 (2016), 402-406.听
Vyjayanthi R. Selinger,听Authorizing the Shogunate: Ritual and Material Symbolism in the Literary Construction of Warrior Order听(Leiden: Brill, 2013),听Japanese Language and Literature听49, no. 1 (2015): 85-90.听
Haruko Wakabayashi,听The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism(Honolulu: University of Hawai鈥榠 Press, 2012),听Japanese Journal of Religious Studies听41, no. 2 (fall 2013): 404-407.听
Hank Glassman,听The Face of Jiz艒: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism听(Honolulu: University of Hawai鈥榠 Press, 2012),听Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies听73, no. 1 (2013): 185-89.
Charlotte Eubanks,听Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture & Medieval Japan听(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011),听Comparative Literature Studies听49, no. 3 (2012): 485-88.听
Michael Dylan Foster,听Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Y艒kai听(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009),听Asian Ethnology听69, no. 1 (spring 2010): 176-80.听
Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba Walter, eds.,听Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism听(Honolulu: University of Hawai鈥榠 Press, 2008),听Japanese Journal of Religious Studies听36, no. 2 (fall 2009): 384-88.听
Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen,听Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics听(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008),听Japanese Journal of Religious Studies听35, no. 2 (fall 2008): 380-83.听
David Bialock,听Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike听(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007),听The听Journal of Japanese Studies听34, no. 2 (summer 2008): 429-33.听
David W. Plath,听Preaching From Pictures: A Japanese Mandala听(DVD) (Media Production Group, 2006),听Visual Anthropology听21, no. 3 (May 2008): 276-77.听
Janet R. Goodwin,听Selling Songs and Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan听(Honolulu: University of Hawai鈥檌 Press, 2007),听Monumenta Nipponica听62, no. 3 (autumn 2007): 361-63.听
D. Max Moerman,听Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan(Cambridge and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005),听Asian Folklore Studies听66, no. 1-2 (autumn 2007): 261-63.
Ikumi Kaminishi,听Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan听(Honolulu: University of Hawai鈥榠 Press, 2006),听Japanese Journal of Religious Studies听33, no. 1 (spring 2006): 190-94.听
Barbara Ruch, ed.,听Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan听(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2002),听Japanese Religions听29, no. 1 (January 2004): 131-34.听
