Japanese Gothic
General Studies
Ueda Akinari
Ozaka Koyo
Izumi Kyoka
Seishi Yokomizo
HUGHES, Henry. “Familiarity of the Strange: Japan’s Gothic Tradition.” Criticism 42:1 (2000): 59-89.
ARAKI, James T. “A Critical Approach to the Ugetsu Monagatari.” Monumenta Nipponica 22:1-2 (1967): 49-64.
FRANK, Frederick S. “Ueda Akinari.” Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
HAMEDA, Kengi. “Introduction.” Tales of Moonlight and Rain: Japanese Gothic Tales. [GGII: 1328].
HUMBERTCLAUDE, Pierre. “Essai sur la vie et l’-oeuvre de Ueda Akinari.” Monumenta Nipponica 3 (1940): 98-119; 4 (1941): 102-125; 5 (1942): 52-85. [Essay on the Life and Work of Ueda Akinari.]
JACKMAN, Barry. “Introduction” (pp. vii-xviii). Tales of the Spring Rain. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1975.
REIDER, Noriko Tsunoda. “‘Ugetsu Monogatari,’ Kaidan, Akinari: An Examination of the Reality of the Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Japan.” Dissertation Abstracts International 58:7 (1998): 2661 (Ohio State University).
TAKADA, Mamoru. “Ugetsu Monogatari: A Critical Interpretation.” Tales of Moonlight and Rain: Japanese Gothic Tales. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1971.
ZOLBROD, Leon M. “Introduction.” Tales of Moonlight and Rain. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1974: 1994.
ANDERSON, Kenneth Mark. “The Foreign Relations of the Family State: The Empire of Ethics, Æsthetics, and Evolution in Meiji Japan.” Dissertation Abstracts International 60:4 (1999): 1139 (Cornell University).
CARPENTER, Juliet. “Izumi Kyoka: Meija-Era Gothic.” Japan Quarterly, 31:2 (1984): 154-58.
CORNYETZ, Nina. “Izumi Kyoka’s Speculum: Reflections on the Medusa, Thanatos, and Eros.” Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 3932A (Columbia University).
CORNYETZ, Nina. Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999.
FRANK, Frederick S. “Izumi Kyoka.” Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
INOUYE, Charles Shiro. “Water Imagery in the Works of Izumi Kyoka.” Monumenta Nipponica 46:1 (1991): 43-68.
INOUYE, Charles Shiro., ed. Japanese Gothic Tales of Izumi Kyoka, translated by Charles Shiro Inouye. University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
INOUYE, Charles Shiro. The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 1998.
INOUYE, Charles Shiro. "Introduction: A Literature of Shadows." In Light of Shadows: More Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
JEWEL, Mark. “Aspects of Narrative Structure in the Work of Izumi Kyoka.” Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1984): 155A (Stanford University).
KAWAKAMI, Chiyoko. “The Hybrid Narrative World of Izumi Kyoka.” Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 3924A (University of Washington).
KAWAKAMI, Chiyoko. “Izumi Kyoka’s ‘Uta Andon Between Anachronism and the Avant Garde.” Monumenta Nipponica 54 (1999): 195-215.
KAWAKAMI, Chiyoko. “The Metropolitan Uncanny in the Works of Izumi Kyoka: A Counter-Discourse on Japan’s Modernization.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 59 (1999): 559-83.
KEENE, Donald. “Izumi Kyoka.” Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984: 200-19.
MCGOVERN, Jon Patrick. “Japanese Gothic Fiction: Izumi Kyoka’s Biwa’s Message and Sakuragai.” Master’s Thesis, Indiana University, 1997.
POULTON, Cody. “The Grotesque and Gothic: Izumi Kyoka’s Japan.” Japan Quarterly 41:3 (1994): 324-35.
5.) Seishi Yokomizo (1902-1981)
KOTANI, Mari.”Techno-Gothic Japan: From Seishi Yokomizo’s The Death’s Head Stranger to Mariko Ohara’s Ephemera the Vampire.” Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture, eds. Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 1997.