Esben Petersen (Kwansei Gakuin University) Review of: Garrett L. Washington, "Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan" nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6/is...

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Katherine G. T. Whatley (Stanford University) "Echoes of the Pure Land: The Sonic Imaginary of Utsuho Monogatari" nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6/is...

Jonathan Thumas (Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University) "Of Separate Places: Bessho in Early Medieval Japan" nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6/is...

Mark McNally (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) "Tokugawa Japan From the 'Outside' and the Inside: Wagaku and Kokugaku, Etics and Emics, Nationalism and Exceptionalism" nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6/is...

Kameyama Mitsuhiro 亀山光明 (Princeton University) "Becoming Kannon: Daidō Chōan, Guzeikyō, and Buddhist Reform in Meiji Japan" nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6/is...

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"Observations of the Auspicious Signs in the Self-Ordination in the Precepts" by Takamatsu Setsuko and translated by Micah Auerback.

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