JICPAS issues an English-language magazine "Review of Japanese Culture and Society" offering an international analysis of Japanese people and culture. This magazine is published with a view to enhance international recognition of Japanese culture and its society as well as to stimulate mutual understanding and study the methods of cultural theory.

Foreword

Kitada Sachie i

Introduction

Jared Libarsky iii

Language and Nature

Nakanishi Susumu 1

Self and Landscape in Kagero Nishiki

Joshua S. Mostow 8

Connecting Rhythms: Nature and Selfhood in Shiga Naoya's Reconciliation and A Dark's Night's Passing

Ted Goossen 20

Nature and Self in Modern Japanese Poetry: Hagiwara Sakutaro, Ito Shizuo, and Miyoshi Yatsuji

Kishida-Ellis Toshiko 34

Marginal Arcadias: Oe Kenzaburo's Pastoral and AntiPastoral

Susan J. Napier 46

Symbiosis and Renewal: Transformations of the Forest World of Oba Minako

Mizuta Noriko 59

Fiction
The Shore of Low Tide

Nakayama Shiro 67

Hatsumukashi

Tomioka Taeko 84