An Ise monogatari Reader

Joshua S. Mostow, Ph.D. (1988), is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has published monographs, translations, and many articles on Japanese premodern literature and visual culture, including Courtly Visions: “The Ise Stories” and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation (Brill, 2014). Yamamoto Tokurō, Ph.D. (2001) is Professor Emeritus of Kansai University. He is the leading authority on Ise monogatari and author of several monographs and articles, including Ise monogatari ron: buntai, shudai, kyōju (Kasama Shoin, 2001). Kurtis Hanlon is a graduate student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.

Acknowledgments

Matters Textual

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Joshua S. Mostow



Part 1: Historical Context

1 The Formation of the Ise monogatari and Its Background

 Imanishi Yūichirō



2 The Significance of the Composition of the Ise monogatari

 Gotō Shōko

 Translated by Imai Kazuhiko



3 The Historical Reality of Ki no Aritsune and the Ise monogatari

 Fujihara Mika

 Translated by Yevheniy Vakhnenko and Kurtis Hanlon



Part 2: Antecedents and Descendants

4 From Stories of Female Transcendents to the Ise monogatari: Taking Kaimami as a Clue

 Yamamoto Tokurō



5 Allusion to and Transformation of the Ise monogatari by “Murasaki Shikibu”

 Takahashi Tōru

 Translated by Tamada Saori



Part 3: The Ise and Noh

6 Zenchiku’s Noh Play Oshio: Introduction and Translation

 Susan Blakeley Klein



7 The Structure of the Noh Play Kakitsubata: Zenchiku’s Method

 Ōtani Setsuko

 Translated by Kurtis Hanlon



Part 4: The Commentary Tradition

8 The Methodology of Late-Muromachi Ise Commentaries: Focusing on Sōgi and the Sanjōnishi School

 Aoki Shizuko



9 Reading the Ise monogatari through The Tale of Genji

 Joshua S. Mostow



Part 5: The Ise in the Early Modern Period

10 The Landscape of “The Well-Curb”

 Fujishima Aya



11 Playing Narihira: The Ise monogatari in Eighteenth-Century Kibyōshi

 Laura Moretti



Appendix



Family Tree of Principal Personages



Index of First Lines of Poems



Subject Index