In The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature, Atsuko Sakaki closely examines photography-inspired texts by four Japanese novelists: Tanizaki Jun

This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication, as a means o

In Satō Haruo and Modern Japanese Literature, Charles Exley offers the first comprehensive examination of Satō’s literary oeuvre from the 1910s through the

In A Sense of the City, Gala Maria Follaco examines Nagai Kafū’s (1879-1959) literary construction of urban spatialities from late Meiji through the early Sh

The essays in this book investigate the early history and culture of the photography studio in China and Japan with particular attention to the genre of the stu