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Boulder Books on Asian Studies

Boulder Books on Asian Studies is a series published by the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Center for Asian Studies.

In March 2011, a conference entitled "Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early Modern Japan" was held at the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder campus.  PDF files of individual chapters from the resulting edited volume are available below.

Keller Kimbrough and Satoko Shimazaki, "Editors' Introduction: Theater and Publishing in Early Modern Japan" (PDF)
Janice Kanemitsu, "Guts and Tears: Kinpira Joruri and Its Textual Transformations" (PDF)
Hioki Atsuko, "Chujohime setsuwa no tenkai: Taimadera Nakanobo-zo Chujohime eden o tansho to shite" (PDF)
Katherine Saltzman-Li, "Kabuki Knowledge: Professional Manuscripts and Commercial Texts on the Art of Kabuki" (PDF)
Yamashita Takumi, "Jukyu seiki-matsu Obei shuppanbutsu no naka no kabuki" (PDF)
Matsuba Ryoko, "Edo yakusha ehon no shuppan" (PDF)
Yamashita Noriko, "Bakumatsu yakusha mitate-e no mitate: Mitate sanjurokkasen ni tsuite" (PDF)
Akiko Yano, "Capturing the Body: Ryukosai's Notes on "Realism" in Representing Actors on Stage" (PDF)
Andrew Gerstle, "Creating Celebrity: Poetry in Osaka Actor Surimono and Prints" (PDF)
Adam L. Kern, "Kabuki Plays on Page - and Comicbook Pictures on Stage - in Edo-Period Japan" (PDF)
Robert Goree, "Publishing Kabukiland: Late Edo Culture and Kyokutei Bakin's Yakusha meisho zue" (PDF)
Jonathan Zwicker, "Stage and Spectacle in an Age of Maps: Kabuki and the Cartographic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Japan" (PDF)
Abstracts (PDF)
Contributors (PDF)

If you would like a physical copy of the book, please send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to:

Center for Asian Studies
366 UCB
Boulder, CO
80309-0366

The envelope should be a 8.5 x 11 inch padded envelope, preferably a standard "bubble mailer."  The book is slightly less than 1 pound, please add appropriate postage for "media mail." 

Keller Kimbrough and Satoko Shimazaki, eds., Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early Modern Japan, Boulder Books on Asian Studies no. 1 (Boulder: University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Center for Asian Studies, 2011)

Other Available Publications

In March 2008, a conference entitled "Illustrating the Dharma: Popular Buddhism in Medieval Japanese Fiction" was held at the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder campus.  If you would like

a copy of the related specialissue of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, please send a self-addressed envelope to:

Center for Asian Studies
366 UCB
Boulder, CO
80309-0366

The envelope should be a 8.5 x 11 inch padded envelope, preferably a standard "bubble mailer."  The book is slightly less than 1 pound, please add appropriate postage for "media mail." 

Keller Kimbrough and Hank Glassman, eds. Vernacular Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Literature, a special issue of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (vol. 36, no. 2 [2009]).