Strange games and enchanted science: The mystery of Kokkuri

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The game of Kokkuri, a modern practice utilizing age-old spirits to forecast the future, serves as a mirror of the critical Meiji period in Japanese history, reflecting both changes and continuities and demonstrating the negotiation of divergent worldviews as the nation embarked on a path to modernity. KokkuriEs widespread popularity in the 1880s touched all levels of society, making it a unique tool with which to gain access to this moment of profound cultural flux.

Methods, Japanese history, Games, Future predictions

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First-person narration and citizen-subject: The modernity of Ogai's "The Dancing Girl"

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A study seeks to explore conditions of possibility of the modern first-person sense of subjectivity in Japanese literary discourses, to unpack its multiple functions and relevance within a given historical environment rather to trace it to its point of origin. It uses Mori Ogai's 1890 novel 'The Dancing Girl' (Maihime) as a focal point to examine how the text constitutes the first-person form of subject at a variety of discursive levels.

Analysis, Works, First person narrative, Discourse analysis, Politics in literature, Political literature, Authors, Japanese, Japanese writers, Political science literature, The Dancing Girl (Book), Ogai, Mori

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Fractured dialogues: 'mono no aware' and poetic communication in 'The Tale of Genji.'

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The relationship between poetry and prose in 'The Tale of Genji' is discussed, with a focus on the female voice in poetic exchanges between lovers. Topics include Motoori Narinaga's poetics and 'the Tale of Genji,' the poetic and the prosaic, the poetic ideal and fractured dialogues, conventions of poetic dialogues, 'mono no aware' and a scene of ghostly union, and female pathos.

Dialogues, Dialogue, Literary form, Literary forms, The Tale of Genji (Book)

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