Kumiko Saito
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kumiko Saito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kumiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Saito |
| SIGNATURE | SAITO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7043-2333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures: Women’s Speculative Fiction in Contemporary Japan by Kazue Harada
Reviewed by: Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures: Women’s Speculative Fiction in Contemporary Japan by Kazue Harada Kumiko Saito Defying the Demands of (Re)production. Kazue Harada. Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures: Women’s Speculative Fiction in Contemporary Japan. Brill, brill’s japanese studies library, 2022. 214 pp. $108 hc. Kazue Harada’s study explores the much-dismissed world of speculative fiction written by J…
Reframing Modern Japanese Literature: Translation and Science Fiction in Meiji-Era Japan
This essay investigates emergent notions of literature and science through translated texts of science fiction in the early Meiji era, including Shin miraiki (1868), Kondō Makoto's Japanese translation of Anno 2065 (1865) by Pieter Harting, and Hachijūnichikan sekai isshū (1878), Kawashima Chūnosuke's Japanese translation of Jules Verne's novel Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1873). These translated texts about advanced societies and tec…
From Novels to Video Games: Romantic Love and Narrative Form in Japanese Visual Novels and Romance Adventure Games
Video games are powerful narrative media that continue to evolve. Romance games in Japan, which began as text-based adventure games and are today known as bishōjo games and otome games, form a powerful textual corpus for literary and media studies. They adopt conventional literary narrative strategies and explore new narrative forms formulated by an interface with computer-generated texts and audiovisual fetishism, thereby challenging the assumpt…
Mapping Anime Scholarship in the Post-Genre Age
166 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) Kumiko Saito Mapping Anime Scholarship in the Post-Genre Age Bolton, Christopher. Interpreting Anime. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 2018. 328 pp. $96 hc, $24 pbk. Anime, “a style of Japanese film and television animation” (Oxford Dictionary), has been a focus of Western scholarship since the early 2000s, and many brilliant books on anime, both academic and fan-oriented, have appeared since then. …
Ve 17. Yüzyıllar Doğu ve Güneydoğu Anadolusu’nda Timarların Çeşitli Biçimleri: Farklı Uygulamalara Tek İsim Koymak
Bu makalede Doğu ve Güneydoğu Anadolu’da Kürt emirlerinin yönettikleri sancaklardaki timar sisteminin uygulanma durumları ve özellikleri incelenmektedir. Bu sancaklarda uygulanan timar sisteminin iki öğesi vardır. Bunlardan biri, ocaklık adı altında dirliğin sadece babadan oğula değil, geniş bir aile içinde de miras olarak bırakılması ve tahrir yapılmadan dirlik sahibi olması gibi özel timar sisteminin uygulanmasıdır. Diğeri ise, tahrir yapılmada…
The Matrilineal Succession of the Kingship in the 25 th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt: A New Proposal Based on Kinship Terminology
The royal succession in the 25th, i.e. the Kushite, dynasty has been interpreted as hereditary through patrilineal succession, because of the father-son relationship of the kings. One of the textual grounds for accepting the father-son relationship of the kings is the indirect one that some royal women held both the titles "the king's sister" and "the king's daughter", and this ground is regarded as decisive. However, this ignores the possibility…
Magic,Shōjo, and Metamorphosis: Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society
The magical girl, a popular genre of Japanese television animation, has provided female ideals for young girls since the 1960s. Three waves in the genre history are outlined, with a focus on how female hero figures reflect the shifting ideas of gender roles in society. It is argued that the genre developed in close connection to the culture ofshōjo(female adolescence) as an antithesis to adulthood, in which women are expected to undertake domesti…
Desire in Subtext: Gender, Fandom, and Women's Male-Male Homoerotic Parodies in Contemporary Japan
Desire in Subtext:Gender, Fandom, and Women's Male-Male Homoerotic Parodies in Contemporary Japan Kumiko Saito (bio) Manga and anime fan cultures in postwar Japan have expanded rapidly in a manner similar to British and American science fiction fandoms that developed through conventions. From the 1970s to the present, the Comic Market (hereafter Comiket) has been a leading venue for manga and anime fan activities in Japan. Over the three days of …
Establishment of the Yurtluk ve Ocaklik and the Hükûmet in Eastern Anatolia from the 16th to the 17th Century
This paper analyzes the establishment by the Ottoman Empire of the Yurtluk ve Ocaklik and the hükûmet in eastern Anatolia and their historical development.After the Ottoman Empire took the eastern Anatolia under its control in the 16th century, it examined the situation of the land tenure and the distribution among the power of Kurdish amirs (chieftain) who had governed the area. This was aimed at merging eastern Anatolia into its local administr…
Magic,Shōjo, and Metamorphosis: Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society
The magical girl, a popular genre of Japanese television animation, has provided female ideals for young girls since the 1960s. Three waves in the genre history are outlined, with a focus on how female hero figures reflect the shifting ideas of gender roles in society. It is argued that the genre developed in close connection to the culture ofshōjo(female adolescence) as an antithesis to adulthood, in which women are expected to undertake domesti…
Reframing Modern Japanese Literature: Translation and Science Fiction in Meiji-Era Japan
This essay investigates emergent notions of literature and science through translated texts of science fiction in the early Meiji era, including Shin miraiki (1868), Kondō Makoto's Japanese translation of Anno 2065 (1865) by Pieter Harting, and Hachijūnichikan sekai isshū (1878), Kawashima Chūnosuke's Japanese translation of Jules Verne's novel Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1873). These translated texts about advanced societies and tec…
Establishment of the Yurtluk ve Ocaklik and the Hükûmet in Eastern Anatolia from the 16th to the 17th Century
This paper analyzes the establishment by the Ottoman Empire of the Yurtluk ve Ocaklik and the hükûmet in eastern Anatolia and their historical development.After the Ottoman Empire took the eastern Anatolia under its control in the 16th century, it examined the situation of the land tenure and the distribution among the power of Kurdish amirs (chieftain) who had governed the area. This was aimed at merging eastern Anatolia into its local administr…
Desire in Subtext: Gender, Fandom, and Women's Male-Male Homoerotic Parodies in Contemporary Japan
Desire in Subtext:Gender, Fandom, and Women's Male-Male Homoerotic Parodies in Contemporary Japan Kumiko Saito (bio) Manga and anime fan cultures in postwar Japan have expanded rapidly in a manner similar to British and American science fiction fandoms that developed through conventions. From the 1970s to the present, the Comic Market (hereafter Comiket) has been a leading venue for manga and anime fan activities in Japan. Over the three days of …
The Matrilineal Succession of the Kingship in the 25 th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt: A New Proposal Based on Kinship Terminology
The royal succession in the 25th, i.e. the Kushite, dynasty has been interpreted as hereditary through patrilineal succession, because of the father-son relationship of the kings. One of the textual grounds for accepting the father-son relationship of the kings is the indirect one that some royal women held both the titles "the king's sister" and "the king's daughter", and this ground is regarded as decisive. However, this ignores the possibility…
Magic,Shōjo, and Metamorphosis: Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society
The magical girl, a popular genre of Japanese television animation, has provided female ideals for young girls since the 1960s. Three waves in the genre history are outlined, with a focus on how female hero figures reflect the shifting ideas of gender roles in society. It is argued that the genre developed in close connection to the culture ofshōjo(female adolescence) as an antithesis to adulthood, in which women are expected to undertake domesti…
Ve 17. Yüzyıllar Doğu ve Güneydoğu Anadolusu’nda Timarların Çeşitli Biçimleri: Farklı Uygulamalara Tek İsim Koymak
Bu makalede Doğu ve Güneydoğu Anadolu’da Kürt emirlerinin yönettikleri sancaklardaki timar sisteminin uygulanma durumları ve özellikleri incelenmektedir. Bu sancaklarda uygulanan timar sisteminin iki öğesi vardır. Bunlardan biri, ocaklık adı altında dirliğin sadece babadan oğula değil, geniş bir aile içinde de miras olarak bırakılması ve tahrir yapılmadan dirlik sahibi olması gibi özel timar sisteminin uygulanmasıdır. Diğeri ise, tahrir yapılmada…
Mapping Anime Scholarship in the Post-Genre Age
166 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) Kumiko Saito Mapping Anime Scholarship in the Post-Genre Age Bolton, Christopher. Interpreting Anime. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 2018. 328 pp. $96 hc, $24 pbk. Anime, “a style of Japanese film and television animation” (Oxford Dictionary), has been a focus of Western scholarship since the early 2000s, and many brilliant books on anime, both academic and fan-oriented, have appeared since then. …
From Novels to Video Games: Romantic Love and Narrative Form in Japanese Visual Novels and Romance Adventure Games
Video games are powerful narrative media that continue to evolve. Romance games in Japan, which began as text-based adventure games and are today known as bishōjo games and otome games, form a powerful textual corpus for literary and media studies. They adopt conventional literary narrative strategies and explore new narrative forms formulated by an interface with computer-generated texts and audiovisual fetishism, thereby challenging the assumpt…
Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures: Women’s Speculative Fiction in Contemporary Japan by Kazue Harada
Reviewed by: Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures: Women’s Speculative Fiction in Contemporary Japan by Kazue Harada Kumiko Saito Defying the Demands of (Re)production. Kazue Harada. Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures: Women’s Speculative Fiction in Contemporary Japan. Brill, brill’s japanese studies library, 2022. 214 pp. $108 hc. Kazue Harada’s study explores the much-dismissed world of speculative fiction written by J…
Reframing Modern Japanese Literature: Translation and Science Fiction in Meiji-Era Japan
This essay investigates emergent notions of literature and science through translated texts of science fiction in the early Meiji era, including Shin miraiki (1868), Kondō Makoto's Japanese translation of Anno 2065 (1865) by Pieter Harting, and Hachijūnichikan sekai isshū (1878), Kawashima Chūnosuke's Japanese translation of Jules Verne's novel Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1873). These translated texts about advanced societies and tec…
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Anime (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)