Raw Depiction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction. THE CONSTRUCTION OF JAPAN’S MODERNITY AND THE GROWTH OF A NEW LIT ER A TURE 1
5. Notes for the Reader 61
6. I. Responses to the Age of Enlightenment
7. Things Heard around a Pot of Beef 67
8. Catfish, Prostitutes, and Politicians: Satirical Cartoons 81
9. Toad Fed Up with Modernity 102
10. Monsters! Monsters! Read All about It! 109
11. II. Crime and Punishment, Edo and Tokyo
12. The Bad Girl Prefers Black and Yellow Plaid, performed 1873 133
13. Takahashi Oden, Devil Woman 155
14. Rat Boy 195
15. Wedlock and Electricity 209
16. III. The High and Low of Capitalism
17. Money Is All That Matters in This World 233
18. Oppekepe Rap 247
19. In Darkest Tokyo 253
20. The Jester 268
21. IV. Modernity and Individualism
22. To My Fellow Sisters 283
23. The Origins of My Colloquial Style and Confessions of Half a Lifetime 298
24. The Impasse of Our Age 311
25. V. A Sense of the Real and Unreal
26. Raw Depiction 327
27. Messenger from the Sea 344
28. VI. Romance and Eros
29. Pessimist Poets and Women 355
30. The Cuckoo 363
31. Tangled Hair 373
32. At Yushima Shrine 382
33. VII. The City Dreams of the Country
34. A True View of Kasane Precipice 403
35. A Woodcutter Falls in Love 419
36. Maidens, Stars, and Dreams 428
37. VIII. Interiority and Exteriority
38. My Grand mother’s Cottage 439
39. Hilltop 443
40. Short Pieces from Long Spring Days 455
41. Rich Boy 465
42. Source Texts 489
43. Contributors 495
44. Permissions 499
45. Index 501