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 勛圖厙 Press, 2018).泭
Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater泭(New York: Columbia 勛圖厙 Press, 2013).泭
Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early Modern Japan, co-edited with Satoko Shimazaki (Boulder: 勛圖厙 of Colorado Center for Asian Studies, 2011).泭
Vernacular Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Literature, co-edited with Hank Glassman. Special issue of the泭Japanese Journal of Religious Studies泭(vol. 36, no. 2 [2009]).泭
Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan泭(Ann Arbor: 勛圖厙 of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2008).泭
Articles and Book Chapters
Potato Puppet Theater/Beating the Beauties: A Seventeenth-Century Japanese Picture Book for Children, co-authored with Pia Jolliffe,泭Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth泭16, no. 1 (2023): 197-210.泭
Staging Senseless Violence: Early泭斑娶喝娶勳泭Puppet Theater and the Culture of Performance, in泭The Tokugawa World, ed. Gary P. Leupp and De-Min Tao (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), 578-593.泭
Casting Spells: Combat Charms and Secret Scrolls in the Warrior Fiction of Late Medieval Japan,泭Monumenta Nipponica泭74, no. 2 (2019): 211-248.
Pushing Filial Piety:泭The Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars泭and an Osaka Publishers Beneficial Books for Women,泭Japan Review泭34 (2019): 43-68.泭
Shibukawa Seiemon no jokunsho to泭捧勳轍贖莽堯勳域,泭Setsuwa bungaku kenky贖泭54 (2019): 117-127.泭
Trials of Devotion: Orphaned Children and the Boundaries of Horror in Japanese Buddhist Fiction, in泭Buddhist Asia: Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations,泭ed. Nicholas S. Brasovan and Micheline M. Soong (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2019), 71-92.泭
Hon no ykai, ykai no hon: tzai no tsukumogami k, in泭Higashi no ykai, Nishi no monsut: szryoku no bunka hikaku, ed. Tokuda Kazuo (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2018), 190-205.
Neko no Shuten Dji to泭Nezumi no eyama emaki, in泭Nihon bungaku no tenb wo hiraku, dai ni kan: kaiga, imji no kair, ed. Deguchi Hisanori (Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2017), 192-97.
Late Medieval Popular Fiction and Narrated Genres: Otogizshi, Kwakamai, Sekky, and Ko-jruri, in泭The泭Cambridge History of Japanese Literature, ed. Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, with David Lurie (Cambridge: Cambridge 勛圖厙 Press, 2016), 355-69.
Bloody Hell! Reading Boys Books in Seventeenth Century Japan,泭Asian Ethnology泭74, no. 1 (2015): 111-139.
Tengu no hanashi:泭Tengu no dairi泭ni okeru rokud annai, in泭Kaii, ykai bunka no dent to sz: uchi to soto no shiten kara, ed. Komatsu Kazuhiko (Kyoto: Nichibunken, 2015): 85-90.
Tokugawa-ke no oni bysha: kawaraban泭eyama Chdon Dji taiji no zu泭honkoku to shkai,泭Rikky Daigaku Nihon bungaku泭111 (2014): 107-113.
Preachers and Playwrights:泭Ikuta Atsumori泭and the Roots of Noh, in泭Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of N Plays of the Genpei War, ed. Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell 勛圖厙 East Asia Program, 2013), 211-229.
Sacred Charnel Visions: Painting the Dead in Illustrated Scrolls of泭The Demon Shuten Dji, in泭Japanese Visual Culture: Performance, Media, and Text, ed. Kenji Kobayashi, Maori Sait, and Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature, 2013), 35-47.
Oni monogatari no fuj dsatsu:泭Shuten Dji emaki泭ni okeru igai bysha, in泭Amerika ni watatta monogatari-e: emaki, bybu, ehon, ed. Kokubungaku Kenky贖 Shirykan (Tokyo: Perikansha, 2013), 63-74.
Battling Tengu, Battling Conceit: Visualizing Abstraction in泭The Tale of the Handcart Priest,泭Japanese Journal of Religious Studies泭39, no. 2 (fall 2012): 275-305.
Ko-Atsumori泭域:泭Heike monogatari泭Atsumori-tan to namae no igi,泭Densh bungaku kenky贖泭59 (May 2010): 51-59.
Text and Illustration in Medieval Japanese Fiction/Ch贖sei bungaku no moji-tekisuto to kaiga-imji k, in泭New Horizons in Japanese Literary Studies, ed. Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2009), 105-107 (English) and 117-119 (Japanese).泭
Bonn shmetsu monogatari:泭Tameyo no sshi泭to ch贖sei bungaku ni okeru sanji no kyoy gendo,泭in泭Nihon bungaku no szbutsu: shoseki, shahon, emaki, ed. Suzuki Jun and Melissa McCormick (Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature, 2009), 79-89.
Kusa-zshi ni miru otogizshi juy,泭in泭Otogizshi: hyakka ryran, ed. Tokuda Kazuo (Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2008), 601-18.泭
O喧棗眶勳堝莽堯勳泭Shuten Dji泭/泭Ibuki Dji泭no nikushoku ron,泭Kokubungaku: kaishaku to kansh, bessatsu泭(October 2008): 141-50.
Illustrating the Classics: The Otogizshi泭Lazy Tar泭in Edo Pictorial Fiction,泭Japanese Language and Literature泭42, no. 1 (spring 2008): 257-304.泭
Travel Writing from Hell? Minomoto no Yoriie and the Politics of泭Fuji no hitoana sshi,泭Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies泭8 (2007): 112-22.
Preaching the Animal Realm in Late-Medieval Japan,泭Asian Folklore Studies泭65, no. 2 (fall 2006): 179-204.
Tourists in Paradise: Writing the Pure Land in Medieval Japanese Fiction,泭Japanese Journal of Religious Studies泭33, no. 2 (fall 2006): 269-296.
Murasaki Shikibu for Children: The Illustrated泭Shinpan Murasaki Shikibu泭of ca. 1747,泭Japanese Language and Literature泭40, no. 1 (spring 2006): 1-36.泭
Reading the Miraculous Powers of Japanese Poetry: Spells, Truth Acts, and a Medieval Buddhist Poetics of the Supernatural,泭Japanese Journal of Religious Studies泭32, no. 1 (spring 2005): 1-33.
Little Atsumori泭硃紳餃泭The Tale of the Heike: Fiction as Commentary, and the Significance of a Name,泭Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies泭5 (2004): 325-36.
Nomori no kagami泭and the Perils of Poetic Heresy,泭Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies泭4 (2003): 99-114. Re-published in the online journal泭Simply Haiku, May 2007.
Apocryphal Texts and Literary Identity: Sei Shnagon and the泭Matsushima Diary,泭Monumenta Nipponica泭57, 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 of泭Women and Performance泭(2001): 59-78.泭
Independent Translations
The Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars (捧勳轍贖莽堯勳域),泭Japan Review泭34 (2019): 69-94.
Kach F贖getsu,泭in Joshua S. Mostow,泭Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation泭(Leiden: Brill, 2014), 311-23.
Ko-Atsumori,"泭勳紳泭Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of N Plays of the Genpei War, ed. Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell 勛圖厙 East Asia Program, 2013), 247-260.泭
The Tale of the Handcart Priest (Kuruma-z sshi). Published online as a digital supplement to泭Japanese Journal of Religious Studies泭39, no. 2 (fall 2012): 1-7.
Komine Kazuaki, Transcribing Bodies and Seeing Bodies: Unraveling Picture Scrolls, in泭New Horizons in Japanese Literary Studies, ed. Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2009), 102-104.
Shintokumaru, Shuten Dji, and 唬堯贖轍堯勳鳥梗,"泭勳紳泭Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, ed. Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia 勛圖厙 Press, 2007), 1123-50 and 1160-81.泭
The Tale of the Fuji Cave (Fuji no hitoana sshi). Published online as a digital supplement to泭Japanese Journal of Religious Studies泭33, no. 2 (fall 2006): 1-22.泭
Encyclopedia Entries
Shuten Dji and Tengu, in泭The泭Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters, ed. Jeffrey Weinstock (London: Ashgate, 2014), 514-516 and 529-532.
Reviews
Robert Goree,泭Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan泭(Cambridge: Harvard 勛圖厙 Asia Center, 2020),泭Monumenta Nipponica泭77, no. 2 (2022): 341-44.
Laura Moretti,泭Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan泭(New York: Columbia 勛圖厙 Press, 2020),泭Monumenta Nipponica泭76, no. 2 (2021): 375-78.泭
Doris G. Bargen,泭Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors泭(Honolulu: 勛圖厙 of泭Hawaii泭Press, 2015), H-Asia, H-Net Reviews. March 2017.泭
Alison McQueen Tokita,泭Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative泭(Farnham, UK, and Burlington, USA: Ashgate Publishing, 2015),泭The Journal of Japanese Studies泭42, no. 2 (2016), 402-406.泭
Vyjayanthi R. Selinger,泭Authorizing the Shogunate: Ritual and Material Symbolism in the Literary Construction of Warrior Order泭(Leiden: Brill, 2013),泭Japanese Language and Literature泭49, no. 1 (2015): 85-90.泭
Haruko Wakabayashi,泭The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism(Honolulu: 勛圖厙 of Hawaii Press, 2012),泭Japanese Journal of Religious Studies泭41, no. 2 (fall 2013): 404-407.泭
Hank Glassman,泭The Face of Jiz: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism泭(Honolulu: 勛圖厙 of Hawaii Press, 2012),泭Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies泭73, no. 1 (2013): 185-89.
Charlotte Eubanks,泭Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture & Medieval Japan泭(Berkeley and Los Angeles: 勛圖厙 of California Press, 2011),泭Comparative Literature Studies泭49, no. 3 (2012): 485-88.泭
Michael Dylan Foster,泭Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Ykai泭(Berkeley and Los Angeles: 勛圖厙 of California Press, 2009),泭Asian Ethnology泭69, no. 1 (spring 2010): 176-80.泭
Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba Walter, eds.,泭Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism泭(Honolulu: 勛圖厙 of Hawaii Press, 2008),泭Japanese Journal of Religious Studies泭36, no. 2 (fall 2009): 384-88.泭
Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen,泭Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics泭(Stanford: Stanford 勛圖厙 Press, 2008),泭Japanese Journal of Religious Studies泭35, no. 2 (fall 2008): 380-83.泭
David Bialock,泭Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike泭(Stanford: Stanford 勛圖厙 Press, 2007),泭The泭Journal of Japanese Studies泭34, no. 2 (summer 2008): 429-33.泭
David W. Plath,泭Preaching From Pictures: A Japanese Mandala泭(DVD) (Media Production Group, 2006),泭Visual Anthropology泭21, no. 3 (May 2008): 276-77.泭
Janet R. Goodwin,泭Selling Songs and Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan泭(Honolulu: 勛圖厙 of Hawaii Press, 2007),泭Monumenta Nipponica泭62, no. 3 (autumn 2007): 361-63.泭
D. Max Moerman,泭Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan(Cambridge and London: Harvard 勛圖厙 Asia Center, 2005),泭Asian Folklore Studies泭66, no. 1-2 (autumn 2007): 261-63.
Ikumi Kaminishi,泭Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan泭(Honolulu: 勛圖厙 of Hawaii Press, 2006),泭Japanese Journal of Religious Studies泭33, no. 1 (spring 2006): 190-94.泭
Barbara Ruch, ed.,泭Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan泭(Ann Arbor: 勛圖厙 of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2002),泭Japanese Religions泭29, no. 1 (January 2004): 131-34.泭














