Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales, co-edited with Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).
Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater(New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early Modern Japan, co-edited with Satoko Shimazaki (Boulder: University of Colorado Center for Asian Studies, 2011).
Vernacular Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Literature, co-edited with Hank Glassman. Special issue of theJapanese Journal of Religious Studies(vol. 36, no. 2 [2009]).
Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2008).
Articles and Book Chapters
“Potato Puppet Theater/Beating the Beauties: A Seventeenth-Century Japanese Picture Book for Children,” co-authored with Pia Jolliffe,Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth16, no. 1 (2023): 197-210.
“Staging Senseless Violence: EarlyōܰPuppet Theater and the Culture of Performance,” inThe Tokugawa World, ed. Gary P. Leupp and De-Min Tao (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), 578-593.
“Casting Spells: Combat Charms and Secret Scrolls in the Warrior Fiction of Late Medieval Japan,”Monumenta Nipponica74, no. 2 (2019): 211-248.
“Pushing Filial Piety:The Twenty-Four Filial Exemplarsand an Osaka Publisher’s ‘Beneficial Books for Women,’”Japan Review34 (2019): 43-68.
“Shibukawa Seiemon no jokunsho toūō,”Setsuwa bungaku kenkyū54 (2019): 117-127.
“Trials of Devotion: Orphaned Children and the Boundaries of Horror in Japanese Buddhist Fiction,” inBuddhist Asia: Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations,ed. Nicholas S. Brasovan and Micheline M. Soong (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2019), 71-92.
“Hon no yōkai, yōkai no hon: tōzai no tsukumogami kō,” inHigashi no yōkai, Nishi no monsutā: sōzōryoku no bunka hikaku, ed. Tokuda Kazuo (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2018), 190-205.
“Neko no Shuten Dōji toNezumi no Ōeyama emaki,” inNihon bungaku no tenbō wo hiraku, dai ni kan: kaiga, imēji no kairō, ed. Deguchi Hisanori (Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2017), 192-97.
“Late Medieval Popular Fiction and Narrated Genres: Otogizōshi, Kōwakamai, Sekkyō, and Ko-jōruri,” inTheCambridge History of Japanese Literature, ed. Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, with David Lurie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 355-69.
“Bloody Hell! Reading Boys’ Books in Seventeenth Century Japan,”Asian Ethnology74, no. 1 (2015): 111-139.
“Tengu no hanashi:Tengu no dairini okeru rokudō annai,” inKai’i, yōkai bunka no dentō to sōzō: uchi to soto no shiten kara, ed. Komatsu Kazuhiko (Kyoto: Nichibunken, 2015): 85-90.
“Tokugawa-ke no oni byōsha: kawarabanŌeyama Chōdon Dōji taiji no zuhonkoku to shōkai,”Rikkyō Daigaku Nihon bungaku111 (2014): 107-113.
“Preachers and Playwrights:Ikuta Atsumoriand the Roots of Noh,” inLike Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nō Plays of the Genpei War, ed. Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2013), 211-229.
“Sacred Charnel Visions: Painting the Dead in Illustrated Scrolls ofThe Demon Shuten Dōji,” inJapanese Visual Culture: Performance, Media, and Text, ed. Kenji Kobayashi, Maori Saitō, and Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature, 2013), 35-47.
“Oni monogatari no fujō dōsatsu:Shuten Dōji emakini okeru igai byōsha,” inAmerika ni watatta monogatari-e: emaki, byōbu, ehon, ed. Kokubungaku Kenkyū Shiryōkan (Tokyo: Perikansha, 2013), 63-74.
“Battling Tengu, Battling Conceit: Visualizing Abstraction inThe Tale of the Handcart Priest,”Japanese Journal of Religious Studies39, no. 2 (fall 2012): 275-305.
“Ko-Atsumoriō:Heike monogatariAtsumori-tan to namae no igi,”Denshō bungaku kenkyū59 (May 2010): 51-59.
“Text and Illustration in Medieval Japanese Fiction”/“Chūsei bungaku no moji-tekisuto to kaiga-imēji kō,” inNew Horizons in Japanese Literary Studies, ed. Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2009), 105-107 (English) and 117-119 (Japanese).
“Bonnō shōmetsu monogatari:Tameyo no sōshito chūsei bungaku ni okeru sanji no kyoyō gendo,”inNihon bungaku no sōzōbutsu: shoseki, shahon, emaki, ed. Suzuki Jun and Melissa McCormick (Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature, 2009), 79-89.
“Kusa-zōshi ni miru otogizōshi juyō,”inOtogizōshi: hyakka ryōran, ed. Tokuda Kazuo (Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2008), 601-18.
“OٴDzōShuten Dōji/Ibuki Dōjino nikushoku ron,”Kokubungaku: kaishaku to kanshō, bessatsu(October 2008): 141-50.
“Illustrating the Classics: The OtogizōshiLazy Tarōin Edo Pictorial Fiction,”Japanese Language and Literature42, no. 1 (spring 2008): 257-304.
“Travel Writing from Hell? Minomoto no Yoriie and the Politics ofFuji no hitoana sōshi,”Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies8 (2007): 112-22.
“Preaching the Animal Realm in Late-Medieval Japan,”Asian Folklore Studies65, no. 2 (fall 2006): 179-204.
“Tourists in Paradise: Writing the Pure Land in Medieval Japanese Fiction,”Japanese Journal of Religious Studies33, no. 2 (fall 2006): 269-296.
“Murasaki Shikibu for Children: The IllustratedShinpan Murasaki Shikibuof ca. 1747,”Japanese Language and Literature40, no. 1 (spring 2006): 1-36.
“Reading the Miraculous Powers of Japanese Poetry: Spells, Truth Acts, and a Medieval Buddhist Poetics of the Supernatural,”Japanese Journal of Religious Studies32, no. 1 (spring 2005): 1-33.
“Little AtsumoriԻThe Tale of the Heike: Fiction as Commentary, and the Significance of a Name,”Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies5 (2004): 325-36.
“Nomori no kagamiand the Perils of Poetic Heresy,”Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies4 (2003): 99-114. Re-published in the online journalSimply Haiku, May 2007.
“Apocryphal Texts and Literary Identity: Sei Shōnagon and theMatsushima Diary,”Monumenta Nipponica57, no. 2 (summer 2002): 133-71.
“Voices from the Feminine Margin: Izumi Shikibu and the Nuns of Kumano and Seiganji,” in “Performing Japanese Women,” vol. 12:1 #23 ofWomen and Performance(2001): 59-78.
Independent Translations
“The Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars” (ūō),Japan Review34 (2019): 69-94.
“Kachō Fūgetsu,”in Joshua S. Mostow,Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation(Leiden: Brill, 2014), 311-23.
“Ko-Atsumori,"Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nō Plays of the Genpei War, ed. Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2013), 247-260.
“The Tale of the Handcart Priest” (Kuruma-zō sōshi). Published online as a digital supplement toJapanese Journal of Religious Studies39, no. 2 (fall 2012): 1-7.
Komine Kazuaki, “Transcribing Bodies and Seeing Bodies: Unraveling Picture Scrolls,” inNew Horizons in Japanese Literary Studies, ed. Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2009), 102-104.
“Shintokumaru,” “Shuten Dōji,” and “ūō,"Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, ed. Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 1123-50 and 1160-81.
“The Tale of the Fuji Cave” (Fuji no hitoana sōshi). Published online as a digital supplement toJapanese Journal of Religious Studies33, no. 2 (fall 2006): 1-22.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Shuten Dōji” and “Tengu,” inTheAshgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters, ed. Jeffrey Weinstock (London: Ashgate, 2014), 514-516 and 529-532.
Reviews
Robert Goree,Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan(Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020),Monumenta Nipponica77, no. 2 (2022): 341-44.
Laura Moretti,Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan(New York: Columbia University Press, 2020),Monumenta Nipponica76, no. 2 (2021): 375-78.
Doris G. Bargen,Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors(Honolulu: University ofHawai‘iPress, 2015), H-Asia, H-Net Reviews. March 2017.
Alison McQueen Tokita,Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative(Farnham, UK, and Burlington, USA: Ashgate Publishing, 2015),The Journal of Japanese Studies42, no. 2 (2016), 402-406.
Vyjayanthi R. Selinger,Authorizing the Shogunate: Ritual and Material Symbolism in the Literary Construction of Warrior Order(Leiden: Brill, 2013),Japanese Language and Literature49, no. 1 (2015): 85-90.
Haruko Wakabayashi,The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism(Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012),Japanese Journal of Religious Studies41, no. 2 (fall 2013): 404-407.
Hank Glassman,The Face of Jizō: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism(Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012),Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies73, no. 1 (2013): 185-89.
Charlotte Eubanks,Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture & Medieval Japan(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011),Comparative Literature Studies49, no. 3 (2012): 485-88.
Michael Dylan Foster,Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009),Asian Ethnology69, no. 1 (spring 2010): 176-80.
Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba Walter, eds.,Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism(Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008),Japanese Journal of Religious Studies36, no. 2 (fall 2009): 384-88.
Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen,Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008),Japanese Journal of Religious Studies35, no. 2 (fall 2008): 380-83.
David Bialock,Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007),TheJournal of Japanese Studies34, no. 2 (summer 2008): 429-33.
David W. Plath,Preaching From Pictures: A Japanese Mandala(DVD) (Media Production Group, 2006),Visual Anthropology21, no. 3 (May 2008): 276-77.
Janet R. Goodwin,Selling Songs and Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan(Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007),Monumenta Nipponica62, no. 3 (autumn 2007): 361-63.
D. Max Moerman,Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan(Cambridge and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005),Asian Folklore Studies66, no. 1-2 (autumn 2007): 261-63.
Ikumi Kaminishi,Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan(Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006),Japanese Journal of Religious Studies33, no. 1 (spring 2006): 190-94.
Barbara Ruch, ed.,Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2002),Japanese Religions29, no. 1 (January 2004): 131-34.
