Yukiko Shigeto
Biographic Data
| ID | 305222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yukiko Shigeto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yukiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Shigeto |
| SIGNATURE | SHIGETO Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Whitman College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0432-3099 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Madness of Love
This essay is an explotatory meditation on evil, justice, love, and beauty, interweaving the works of philosophers, writers, and filmmakers including Simone Weil, Nishida Kitaro, Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Ishimure Michiko, and Sato Makoto, each profoundly rooted in life (Seimei) as the ceaseless dialectics of being made and making
Fidelity to the dead
Tsushima Yûko’s 2013 novel, Yamaneko dômu (Wildcat Dome), centers around multiracial orphans who were born to Japanese women during the occupation period and whose fathers were US servicemen. The novel opens in May 2011 and then moves back and forth between moments in time from the past sixty years, revealing the inner thoughts of different characters, both dead and living. The novel’s centrifugal force is the haunting presence of a friend who mi…
Smashing the Great Buddha, Crossing Lines
With her 2004 novel Nara Report, Tsushima Yūko has presented us with a "report" through which memories borne by the dead come alive. This essay traces the ways in which the novel makes present day Nara emerge as a topos resounding with the voices of those subjected to Buddhist marginalization in pre-modern Nara- women, minorities, outcasts and animals- and considers how it creates space for reimagining this densely overdetermined place
In search of ‘history's flesh itself
Nakano Shigeharu (1902–1979) made an intriguing remark late in his literary career concerning the role of literature. He claimed that the task of literature for him was to seek ‘history itself’ or ‘its flesh itself’. Distilled in this comment is the essence of the literary praxis Nakano pursued throughout much of his career. One fruit of this endeavor was a novella, ‘The First Chapter’ (1935), a tale that critically engages with his recent past. …
Tenkô And Writing
In 1934 Nakano Shigeharu (1902 – 79), a Marxist writer and key figure in the Japanese proletarian literature movement since the mid-1920s, renounced his ties with the Japan Communist Party by way of vowing not to participate in social movements, an act known in Japanese as tenkô. It was a time when a large number of Marxists committed tenkô under increasingly heavy state suppression of leftists. The most common English rendering of the term tenkô…
Entering history through ‘weak’ prose
This article explores Dazai Osamu's (1909–1948) work ‘Sange’ (Fallen flowers, 1944), which juxtaposes tales of the narrator's two friends’ deaths: one died a quiet, ‘personal’ death at home and the other a heroic death in the battle of Attu near the end of the Pacific War. The narrator's effusive admiration of both deaths makes it difficult to determine where exactly the narrator stands politically. This article argues that the story surreptitiou…
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Entering history through ‘weak’ prose
This article explores Dazai Osamu's (1909–1948) work ‘Sange’ (Fallen flowers, 1944), which juxtaposes tales of the narrator's two friends’ deaths: one died a quiet, ‘personal’ death at home and the other a heroic death in the battle of Attu near the end of the Pacific War. The narrator's effusive admiration of both deaths makes it difficult to determine where exactly the narrator stands politically. This article argues that the story surreptitiou…
Tenkô And Writing
In 1934 Nakano Shigeharu (1902 – 79), a Marxist writer and key figure in the Japanese proletarian literature movement since the mid-1920s, renounced his ties with the Japan Communist Party by way of vowing not to participate in social movements, an act known in Japanese as tenkô. It was a time when a large number of Marxists committed tenkô under increasingly heavy state suppression of leftists. The most common English rendering of the term tenkô…
In search of ‘history's flesh itself
Nakano Shigeharu (1902–1979) made an intriguing remark late in his literary career concerning the role of literature. He claimed that the task of literature for him was to seek ‘history itself’ or ‘its flesh itself’. Distilled in this comment is the essence of the literary praxis Nakano pursued throughout much of his career. One fruit of this endeavor was a novella, ‘The First Chapter’ (1935), a tale that critically engages with his recent past. …
Smashing the Great Buddha, Crossing Lines
With her 2004 novel Nara Report, Tsushima Yūko has presented us with a "report" through which memories borne by the dead come alive. This essay traces the ways in which the novel makes present day Nara emerge as a topos resounding with the voices of those subjected to Buddhist marginalization in pre-modern Nara- women, minorities, outcasts and animals- and considers how it creates space for reimagining this densely overdetermined place
Fidelity to the dead
Tsushima Yûko’s 2013 novel, Yamaneko dômu (Wildcat Dome), centers around multiracial orphans who were born to Japanese women during the occupation period and whose fathers were US servicemen. The novel opens in May 2011 and then moves back and forth between moments in time from the past sixty years, revealing the inner thoughts of different characters, both dead and living. The novel’s centrifugal force is the haunting presence of a friend who mi…
The Madness of Love
This essay is an explotatory meditation on evil, justice, love, and beauty, interweaving the works of philosophers, writers, and filmmakers including Simone Weil, Nishida Kitaro, Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Ishimure Michiko, and Sato Makoto, each profoundly rooted in life (Seimei) as the ceaseless dialectics of being made and making
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