
Nature’s Blessing, Nature’s Wrath Shinto Responses to the Disasters of 2011 23 Aike P. PART 1 Cultural Responses to the Triple Disaster of March 2011 1 Punctuation has been added.Ĭontents List of Illustrations ix Introduction Cultural Responses to Disaster in Japan 1 Roy Starrs What was it like then When the tsunami came to shore? I look down and wonder – Below me spreads the blue sea Quiet and perfectly still.ġ Translated by the Imperial Household Agency. In cases where these efforts have not been successful the publisher welcomes communications from copyright holders, so that the appropriate acknowledgements can be made in future editions, and to settle other permission matters. Brill has made all reasonable efforts to trace all rights holders to any copyrighted material used in this work. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff, Global Oriental and Hotei Publishing. For more information, please see isbn 978-90-04-26829-6 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-26831-9 (e-book) Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data When the tsunami came to shore : culture and disaster in Japan / edited by Roy Starrs. When the Tsunami Came to Shore Culture and Disaster in Japan Edited byĬover illustration: The Great Wave Off Fukushima by Roy Starrs, 2014. Part 2: Towards a Wider Perspective – Japanese Cultural Responses to Earlier Disastersĩ ‘All Shook Up’: Post-religious Responses to Disaster in Murakami Haruki’s after the quakeġ0 Disaster and National Identity: The Textual Transformations of Japan Sinksġ1 Belated Arrival in Political Transition: 1950s Films on Hiroshima and Nagasakiġ2 Hiroshima Rages, Nagasaki Prays: Nagai Takashi’s Catholic Response to the Atomic Bombingġ3 The Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 and Poetryġ4 Proletarian Writers and the Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923ġ5 The ‘Silenced Nexus’: Female Mediation in Modern Japanese Literature of Disaster PART 1: Cultural Responses to the Triple Disaster of March 2011ġ Nature’s Blessing, Nature’s Wrath: Shinto Responses to the Disasters of 2011Ģ Gods, Dragons, Catfish, and Godzilla: Fragments for a History of Religious Views on Natural Disasters in Japanģ Buddhism: The Perfect Religion for Disasters?ĥ These Things Here and Now: Poetry in the Wake of 3/11Ħ ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’: Responses to 3/11 – Constructing Community Through Music and the Music Industryħ Learning that Emerges in Times of Trouble: A Few Cases from JapanĨ Observations on Geomentality in Japan and New Zealand Introduction: Cultural Responses to Disaster in Japan
