Notes on Contributors
Jaqueline Berndt
is professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. Selected publications: Shōjo Across Media, co-ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime, ed. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024).
Joseph Bills
is a MEXT postgraduate research student in the Graduate School of Letters, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
Michael Emmerich
is the Tadashi Yanai Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Selected publications: The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature (Columbia University Press, 2013); Tentekomai: Bungaku wa hi kurete michi tōshi (Goryū Shoin, 2018).
Frederick Feilden
is a PhD student at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, U.K. He is in the final stages of preparing his thesis, entitled “Crucibles of Popular Culture: Gōkan and Strategies of Approximation in Nineteenth-Century Japan.”
Adam L. Kern
is professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A. Selected publications: Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan (Second Edition with a New Preface) (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019); The Penguin Book of Haiku (Penguin Classics, 2018).
Fumiko Kobayashi (小林ふみ子 )
is professor at Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. Selected publications: “Bunseiki zengo no fūkeiga-iri kyōkabon no shuppan to sono kaidai saiin: Ukiyo-e fūkei hanga ryūkō no zenshi to shite,” Ukiyo-e Art, no. 179 (2020); “Surimono to Publicize Poetic Authority: Yomo no Magao and His Pupils,” in Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints, ed. John T. Carpenter and Museum Rietberg (Hotei Publishing, 2008).
Helen Magowan
is a PhD student in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Laura Moretti
is professor of Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at Emmanuel College, U.K. Selected publications: Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan (Columbia University Press, 2020); “Playing Narihira: The Ise monogatari in Eighteenth-Century Kibyōshi,” in An Ise monogatari Reader, eds. Joshua S. Mostow, Tokurō Yamamoto, and Kurtis Hanlon (Brill, 2021).
Matsubara Noriko (松原哲子 )
is research fellow at the National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tachikawa, Japan. Selected publications: “Kusazōshi no honbun ryōshi no shishitsu: Kōseisai dejitaru kenbikyō no kansatsu kekka o tegakari ni,” Kinsei bungei, no. 117 (January 2023); “Urokogataya-ban e-gedai kō,” Kinsei bungei, no. 87 (January 2008).
Satō Satoru (佐藤悟 )
is professor at Jissen Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan. Selected publications: “Nanushi sōin shikō,” Ukiyo-e Art 179 (2020); “Nanushi aratame no sōshi: Roshia sen shinkō no bungaku ni ataeta eikyō ni tsuite,” in Yomihon kenkyū shinshū, vol. 3 (Kanrin Shobō, 2001).
Satō Yukiko (佐藤至子 )
is professor at The University of Tokyo, Japan. Selected publications: Santō Kyōden: Kokkei share daiichi no sakusha (Mineruva Shobō, 2009); Edo no shuppan tōsei: Dan’atsu ni honrō sareta gesakushatachi (Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 2017).
Satoko Shimazaki
is associate professor of Japanese Literature and Theatre at the University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Selected publications: Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost (Columbia University Press, 2016); “From the Beginnings of Kabuki to Nanboku and Mokuami,” in The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She has a joint appointment as associate professor at Waseda University in Tokyo.
Takagi Gen (髙木元 )
is professor emeritus at Chiba University, Japan. Selected publications: Edo yomihon no kenkyū: Jūkyū seiki shōsetsu yōshiki kō (Perikansha, 1995); “L’illustration des romans populaires au Japon aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles,” Arts Asiatiques, no. 66 (2011).
Tanahashi Masahiro (棚橋正博 )
is former professor at Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan. Selected publications: Kibyōshi sōran, 5 vols., Nihon shoshigaku taikei 48(1–5), (Seishōdō Shoten, 1986–2004); Kibyōshi, senryū, kyōka, ed. with Suzuki Katsutada and Uda Toshihiko, Shinpen Nihon koten bungaku zenshū 79 (Shōgakukan, 1999).
Ellis Tinios
since retiring from Leeds University in 2002, has participated in research projects at SOAS and the British Museum. Selected publications: “Introducing an album of preparatory drawings by Katsushika Isai (1821–1880),” Art Research 22, no. 2 (2022); “The publisher Tōhekidō and the Hokusai ‘brand’” and “Chronological list of Late Hokusai Books with short bibliographic notices,” both in Late Hokusai: Society, Thought, Technique, Legacy, ed. Timothy Clark (British Museum Press, 2023).
Tsuda Mayumi (津田眞弓 )
is professor at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. Selected publications: Santō Kyōzan nenpu kō (Perikansha, 2004); “Kinkin sensei eiga no yume o dō yomu ka: Awase no bigaku o hojosen ni,” Bungaku gogaku, no. 238 (August 2023).
Glynne Walley
is associate professor at the University of Oregon in Eugene, U.S.A. Selected publications: Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin’s Nansō Satomi hakkenden (Cornell East Asia Series, 2017); translation of Kyokutei Bakin’s Eight Dogs, or Hakkenden (Cornell University Press; Part One: An Ill-Considered Jest, published 2021, Part Two: His Master’s Blade, forthcoming).