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About Critical Analysis of Anaïs Nin in Japan
Toyoko Yamamoto notes in her interview with Lady Nobuko Albery that “One can easily conclude that Anaïs Nin was a Japonisante,” a lover of Japan, from both the personal and literary resemblances of Nin to Japanese sensibility and tradition. Nin’s Diary, begun as a child of eleven in 1914, is not only one of the transformative works of modern feminist literature but one that fits, as does none other, in the tradition of the female diary first cultivated in the medieval society of Heian Japan.
As this welcome and impressive anthology of seventeen essays attests, feminist scholarship in Japan has embraced the multiple facets of Nin’s work and personality with empathy and insight, comprehending in her a uniquely polyvalent writer in whom autobiography, fiction, and critique combine in an ever-restless search in which identity, always deliquescent, emerges as a self-construction that resists the shapes that patriarchal culture—East and West—seek to impose on the modern woman.
—Robert Zaller, editor of A Casebook on Anaïs Nin
ISBNs
979-8-9855240-3-1 (paperback)
979-8-9855240-4-8 (ebook)
Table of Contents
1 Catherine Vreeland (Broderick): Anaïs Nin’s Diary and the Japanese Literary Diary Tradition
15 Yuko Yaguchi: Twittering Machine of Paradise—Glimpses of two of Anaïs Nin’s Japanese daughters
31 Toyoko Yamamoto: Examining Anaïs Nin no Shôjo Jidai—Sumiko Yagawa’s “Anaïs Nin as a Young Girl”
41 Masako Meio: Glimpses of Present-Day Japanese Women
53 Sumiko Yagawa: Anaïs Nin as Father’s Daughter—True (?) Children’s Literature
57 Atsuko Miyake: Modernist Women Writers on the Psychoanalysts—Anaïs Nin and H. D.
67 Kazuko Sugisaki: Translating Anaïs Nin’s Incest into Japanese—Inciting the eye of a Yin woman
72 Yoshiho Satake: Body Image in House of Incest
80 Toru Nakamura: Resonance of Anaïs Nin’s Voice in Henry Miller’s Texts—The Resisting Double of June Miller
97 Hidekatsu Nojima: A Woman of the Diary: Anaïs Nin
132 Yuko Yaguchi: A Spy in the House of Sexuality—Rereading Anaïs Nin through “Henry and June”
146 Satoshi Kanazawa: Multiplying Women—Reflection, repetition and multiplication in the works of Maya Deren and Anaïs Nin
162 Toyoko Yamamoto: Interview with Lady Nobuko Albery—The “Collages” character today
174 Yuko Yaguchi: The Text that Is the Writer—On reading “The Diary of Anaïs Nin”
188 Mako Idemitsu: The Diary of Anaïs Nin—Excerpts from the book “What a Woman Made”
192 Masako Hara: The Last Visit with Anaïs Nin
197 Shigeru Kashima: Imagination That Is Impure, Strange, and Demonic—A review of “The Diary of Anaïs Nin,” ed. and trans. Yuko Yaguchi
199 Publication Notes
200 Notes on Contributors