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Katakana Revolution
An essay on katakana and gaiaraigo, and their overuse today in the computer industry. [Includes some text in SJIS Japanese]
Ronco in Cyberspace
I wrote this in 1993 when the net was just starting to catch on. It's pretty dated by this point, but much of the changes I predicted have already taken place. As for the others, well, it's only a matter of time.
Kagero no Koi no Yo...
Subtitled Love and Marriage in the Heian Court., this is a paper on Heian Japan that I wrote for a Japanese literature class in 1995
The Sensual World of Ihara Saikaku
An essay about the life and works of 17th century Japanese author Ihara Saikaku.
Yoshida Kenkou and the Tsurezuregusa
The Tsurezuregusa is a classic of Japanese literature. It is a collection of zuihitsu (lit. random jottings), a genre unique to Japan, and was written in the early part of the 14th century. This paper discusses it and the author, Yoshida Kenkou.
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