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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).��

Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater��(New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).��

Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early Modern Japan, co-edited with Satoko Shimazaki (Boulder: University of Colorado Center for Asian Studies, 2011).��

Vernacular Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Literature, co-edited with Hank Glassman. Special issue of the��Japanese Journal of Religious Studies��(vol. 36, no. 2 [2009]).��

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).��

Articles and Book Chapters

“Potato Puppet Theater/Beating the Beauties: A Seventeenth-Century Japanese Picture Book for Children,” co-authored with Pia Jolliffe,��Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth��16, no. 1 (2023): 197-210.��

“Staging Senseless Violence: Early����ō���ܰ�����Puppet Theater and the Culture of Performance,” in��The Tokugawa World, ed. Gary P. Leupp and De-Min Tao (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), 578-593.��

“Casting Spells: Combat Charms and Secret Scrolls in the Warrior Fiction of Late Medieval Japan,”��Monumenta Nipponica��74, no. 2 (2019): 211-248.

“Pushing Filial Piety:��The Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars��and an Osaka Publisher’s ‘Beneficial Books for Women,’”��Japan Review��34 (2019): 43-68.��

“Shibukawa Seiemon no jokunsho to��������ū���󾱰�ō,”��Setsuwa bungaku kenkyū��54 (2019): 117-127.��

“Trials of Devotion: Orphaned Children and the Boundaries of Horror in Japanese Buddhist Fiction,” in��Buddhist Asia: Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations,��ed. Nicholas S. Brasovan and Micheline M. Soong (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2019), 71-92.��

“Hon no yōkai, yōkai no hon: tōzai no tsukumogami kō,” in��Higashi no yōkai, Nishi no monsutā: sōzōryoku no bunka hikaku, ed. Tokuda Kazuo (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2018), 190-205.

“Neko no Shuten Dōji to��Nezumi no Ōeyama emaki,” in��Nihon bungaku no tenbō wo hiraku, dai ni kan: kaiga, imēji no kairō, ed. Deguchi Hisanori (Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2017), 192-97.

“Late Medieval Popular Fiction and Narrated Genres: Otogizōshi, Kōwakamai, Sekkyō, and Ko-jōruri,” in��The��Cambridge History of Japanese Literature, ed. Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, with David Lurie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 355-69.

“Bloody Hell! Reading Boys’ Books in Seventeenth Century Japan,”��Asian Ethnology��74, no. 1 (2015): 111-139.

“Tengu no hanashi:��Tengu no dairi��ni okeru rokudō annai,” in��Kai’i, yōkai bunka no dentō to sōzō: uchi to soto no shiten kara, ed. Komatsu Kazuhiko (Kyoto: Nichibunken, 2015): 85-90.

“Tokugawa-ke no oni byōsha: kawaraban��Ōeyama Chōdon Dōji taiji no zu��honkoku to shōkai,”��Rikkyō Daigaku Nihon bungaku��111 (2014): 107-113.

“Preachers and Playwrights:��Ikuta Atsumori��and the Roots of Noh,” in��Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nō Plays of the Genpei War, ed. Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2013), 211-229.

“Sacred Charnel Visions: Painting the Dead in Illustrated Scrolls of��The Demon Shuten Dōji,” in��Japanese Visual Culture: Performance, Media, and Text, ed. Kenji Kobayashi, Maori Saitō, and Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature, 2013), 35-47.

“Oni monogatari no fujō dōsatsu:��Shuten Dōji emaki��ni okeru igai byōsha,” in��Amerika ni watatta monogatari-e: emaki, byōbu, ehon, ed. Kokubungaku Kenkyū Shiryōkan (Tokyo: Perikansha, 2013), 63-74.

“Battling Tengu, Battling Conceit: Visualizing Abstraction in��The Tale of the Handcart Priest,”��Japanese Journal of Religious Studies��39, no. 2 (fall 2012): 275-305.

“Ko-Atsumori����ō:��Heike monogatari��Atsumori-tan to namae no igi,”��Denshō bungaku kenkyū��59 (May 2010): 51-59.

“Text and Illustration in Medieval Japanese Fiction”/“Chūsei bungaku no moji-tekisuto to kaiga-imēji kō,” in��New Horizons in Japanese Literary Studies, ed. Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2009), 105-107 (English) and 117-119 (Japanese).��

“Bonnō shōmetsu monogatari:��Tameyo no sōshi��to chūsei bungaku ni okeru sanji no kyoyō gendo,”��in��Nihon bungaku no sōzōbutsu: shoseki, shahon, emaki, ed. Suzuki Jun and Melissa McCormick (Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature, 2009), 79-89.

“Kusa-zōshi ni miru otogizōshi juyō,”��in��Otogizōshi: hyakka ryōran, ed. Tokuda Kazuo (Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2008), 601-18.��

“O�ٴDz�����ō������Shuten Dōji��/��Ibuki Dōji��no nikushoku ron,”��Kokubungaku: kaishaku to kanshō, bessatsu��(October 2008): 141-50.

“Illustrating the Classics: The Otogizōshi��Lazy Tarō��in Edo Pictorial Fiction,”��Japanese Language and Literature��42, no. 1 (spring 2008): 257-304.��

“Travel Writing from Hell? Minomoto no Yoriie and the Politics of��Fuji no hitoana sōshi,”��Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies��8 (2007): 112-22.

“Preaching the Animal Realm in Late-Medieval Japan,”��Asian Folklore Studies��65, no. 2 (fall 2006): 179-204.

“Tourists in Paradise: Writing the Pure Land in Medieval Japanese Fiction,”��Japanese Journal of Religious Studies��33, no. 2 (fall 2006): 269-296.

“Murasaki Shikibu for Children: The Illustrated��Shinpan Murasaki Shikibu��of ca. 1747,”��Japanese Language and Literature��40, no. 1 (spring 2006): 1-36.��

“Reading the Miraculous Powers of Japanese Poetry: Spells, Truth Acts, and a Medieval Buddhist Poetics of the Supernatural,”��Japanese Journal of Religious Studies��32, no. 1 (spring 2005): 1-33.

“Little Atsumori�����Ի���The Tale of the Heike: Fiction as Commentary, and the Significance of a Name,”��Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies��5 (2004): 325-36.

“Nomori no kagami��and the Perils of Poetic Heresy,”��Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies��4 (2003): 99-114. Re-published in the online journal��Simply Haiku, May 2007.

“Apocryphal Texts and Literary Identity: Sei Shōnagon and the��Matsushima Diary,”��Monumenta Nipponica��57, no. 2 (summer 2002): 133-71.

“Voices from the Feminine Margin: Izumi Shikibu and the Nuns of Kumano and Seiganji,” in “Performing Japanese Women,” vol. 12:1 #23 of��Women and Performance��(2001): 59-78.��

Independent Translations

“The Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars” (������ū���󾱰�ō),��Japan Review��34 (2019): 69-94.

“Kachō Fūgetsu,”��in Joshua S. Mostow,��Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation��(Leiden: Brill, 2014), 311-23.

“Ko-Atsumori,"��������Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nō Plays of the Genpei War, ed. Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2013), 247-260.��

“The Tale of the Handcart Priest” (Kuruma-zō sōshi). Published online as a digital supplement to��Japanese Journal of Religious Studies��39, no. 2 (fall 2012): 1-7.

Komine Kazuaki, “Transcribing Bodies and Seeing Bodies: Unraveling Picture Scrolls,” in��New Horizons in Japanese Literary Studies, ed. Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2009), 102-104.

“Shintokumaru,” “Shuten Dōji,” and “���ū��ō�󾱳���,"��������Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, ed. Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 1123-50 and 1160-81.��

“The Tale of the Fuji Cave” (Fuji no hitoana sōshi). Published online as a digital supplement to��Japanese Journal of Religious Studies��33, no. 2 (fall 2006): 1-22.��

Encyclopedia Entries

“Shuten Dōji” and “Tengu,” in��The��Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters, ed. Jeffrey Weinstock (London: Ashgate, 2014), 514-516 and 529-532.

Reviews

Robert Goree,��Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan��(Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020),��Monumenta Nipponica��77, no. 2 (2022): 341-44.

Laura Moretti,��Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan��(New York: Columbia University Press, 2020),��Monumenta Nipponica��76, no. 2 (2021): 375-78.��

Doris G. Bargen,��Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors��(Honolulu: University of��Hawai‘i��Press, 2015), H-Asia, H-Net Reviews. March 2017.��

Alison McQueen Tokita,��Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative��(Farnham, UK, and Burlington, USA: Ashgate Publishing, 2015),��The Journal of Japanese Studies��42, no. 2 (2016), 402-406.��

Vyjayanthi R. Selinger,��Authorizing the Shogunate: Ritual and Material Symbolism in the Literary Construction of Warrior Order��(Leiden: Brill, 2013),��Japanese Language and Literature��49, no. 1 (2015): 85-90.��

Haruko Wakabayashi,��The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism(Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012),��Japanese Journal of Religious Studies��41, no. 2 (fall 2013): 404-407.��

Hank Glassman,��The Face of Jizō: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism��(Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012),��Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies��73, no. 1 (2013): 185-89.

Charlotte Eubanks,��Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture & Medieval Japan��(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011),��Comparative Literature Studies��49, no. 3 (2012): 485-88.��

Michael Dylan Foster,��Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai��(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009),��Asian Ethnology��69, no. 1 (spring 2010): 176-80.��

Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba Walter, eds.,��Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism��(Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008),��Japanese Journal of Religious Studies��36, no. 2 (fall 2009): 384-88.��

Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen,��Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics��(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008),��Japanese Journal of Religious Studies��35, no. 2 (fall 2008): 380-83.��

David Bialock,��Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike��(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007),��The��Journal of Japanese Studies��34, no. 2 (summer 2008): 429-33.��

David W. Plath,��Preaching From Pictures: A Japanese Mandala��(DVD) (Media Production Group, 2006),��Visual Anthropology��21, no. 3 (May 2008): 276-77.��

Janet R. Goodwin,��Selling Songs and Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan��(Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007),��Monumenta Nipponica��62, no. 3 (autumn 2007): 361-63.��

D. Max Moerman,��Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan(Cambridge and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005),��Asian Folklore Studies��66, no. 1-2 (autumn 2007): 261-63.

Ikumi Kaminishi,��Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan��(Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006),��Japanese Journal of Religious Studies��33, no. 1 (spring 2006): 190-94.��

Barbara Ruch, ed.,��Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan��(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2002),��Japanese Religions��29, no. 1 (January 2004): 131-34.��