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Performing Japanese Women 7 Introduction: Other Histories of Japanese Performance 15 Introduction: Contrasting Voices 23 Interactive Narrators and Performative Readers: Gendered Interfacing in Heian Narratives 43 Performing Sinners: the Asobi and the Buddhist Discourse of Tsumi 59 Voices from the Feminine Margin: Izumi Shikibu and the Nuns of Kumano and Seiganji 79 Performing the Courtesan: In Search of Ghosts at Zuishin-in Letter Mound 97 Challenging the Old Men: A Brief History of Women in Noh Theater 113 Reflections of Terute: Searching for a Hidden Shaman-Entertainer 135 “Nostalgia” or “Newness”: Nihon Buyo in the United States 151 The Limits of Speech: Kishida Rio’s Thread Hell 167 The Journey Continues: Shiraishi Kayoko tells One Hundred Stories 177 Hitsujiya Shirotama on Herself and Yubiwa Hotel 191 Fleeting Moments: The Vanishing Acts of Phantom Women in the Performances of Dumb Type 207 The Meat Manifesto: Rush Ozeki’s Performative Poetics 225 Reviews 263 List of Contributors |