Saké-my master's thesis and information sources.

kanji for 'sake.'

Traditional Saké in Japan

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Saké served the old fashioned way-from a large cedar barrel. A traditional new year's celebratory method. Fushimi district of southern Kyoto, January 2, 2004, at Kizakura ("yellow cherry blossom") shuzo.


My MA thesis. "Images of Japanese Saké: Snakes in the Glass." pdf (4 MB, 107 pages.) Posted 24 July 2005.

Conference presentation. "Saké Labels: Looking and Longing." pdf. Presented February 4, 2005 at Columbia University's graduate conference and at the University of Colorado at Boulder's graduate conference (CUEAGA) on March 6, 2005.

Bibliography

    Books about saké in English

  • Aoki, Rocky and Nobu Mitsuhisa. Sake: Water from Heaven. NY: Universe Books, 2003.

  • Garrison. The Book of Sake. Kodansha America, Incorporated, 1996.

  • Gauntner, John. Sake Companion. Tuttle Publishing, 2000.

  • Gauntner, John. Sake Handbook. Tuttle Publishing, 2002.

  • Gauntner, John and Griffith Frost. Sake Pure + Simple: Facts, Tips, Lore, Libation. Stone Bridge Press, 2002.

  • Harper, Philip. The Insider's Guide to Sake. Kodansha International, 1998.

  • Kondo, Hiroshi. Sake: A Drinker's Guide. Kodansha America, Incorporated, 1992.

    Books about saké in Japanese

  • Nada no sake. (Tokyo: Kodansha 1984).

  • Sakata, Yoshie. [Nihon no Sake Tsukuri Uta-Songs for Making Japanese Sake] Tokyo: Yuhan Chomei , 1999.

    Books with significant mentions of saké

  • Aston, W. G. Shinto: The Way of the Gods. Collected Works of William George Aston. 6 UK: Ganesha Pub. Ltd.; Tokyo: Oxford UP Japan, 1905, 1997.

  • Averbuch, Irit. The Gods Come Dancing: A Study of the Japanese Ritual Dance of Yamabushi Kagura. Cornell East Asia Series. East Asia Program. Cornell U, 1995.

  • Bush, Lewis. Japanalia. 3rd ed. Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, Ltd., 1959.

  • Cranston, Edwin. A Waka Anthology: The Gem-Glistening Cup. Stanford: Stanford UP. (1998).

    Books about space and place. Not about Japan specifically

  • Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. 1964. Boston: Beacon P, 1994.

  • Lefebvre, Herbert. The Production of Space. Trans. D. Nicholson-Smith. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.

  • Lewis, Martin W., and Karen Wigin. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. Berkeley: U California P, 1997.

  • Malpus, Jeff. Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Trans. Colin Smith. London: Routledge P., 1962, 2004.

  • elph, E. Place and Placelessness. London: Pion, 1976.

  • Sack, Robert David. Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.

  • Said, Edward W. Orientalism. NY: Vintage Books, 1978.

  • Storper, Michael. “The Resurgence of Regional Economies, 10 Years Later.” The Regional World: Territorial Development in a Global Economy. London: Guildford, 1997.

  • Thrift, Nigel. Spatial Formations. London: SAGE Publications Ltd., 1996.

    Ethnographies about Japan

  • Allison, Anne. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1994.

  • Bernstein, Gail. Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945. Ed. Berkeley: U California P, 1991. (Lebra, Joyce. “Women in an All-Male Industry: The Case of Sake Brewer Tatsu’um Kiyo.”)

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  • Bestor, Theodore C. Neighborhood Tokyo. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1989.

  • Bestor, Theodore C. Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World. Berkeley, U California P, 2004.

  • Creighton, Millie. "Spinning Silk, Weaving Selves: Nostalgia, Gender, and Identity in Japanese Craft Vacations.” Japanese Studies. 21 (2001).

  • Dalby, Liza. Geisha. NY: Random House, 1983.

  • Gluck, Carol. Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1985.

  • Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson, eds., Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Durham: Duke UP, 1997

  • Hanley, Susan. Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture. Berkeley: U California P, 1997.

  • Hendry, Joy.An Anthropologist in Japan: Glimpses of Life in the Field. ASA Research Methods in Social Anthropology. London: Rutledge, 1999

  • Ivy, Marilyn. Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1995.

  • Iwabuchi, Koichi. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham: Duke UP. 2002.

  • Kawada, Minoru. Kishida-Ellis, Toshiko, ed. The Origin of Ethnography in Japan: Yanagita Kunio and His Times (Yanagita Kunio no shisoshiteki kenkyu). NY: Kegan Paul International, 1993.

  • Law, Jane Marie. Puppets of Nostalgia: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyo Tradition. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997.

  • Milton, Giles. Samurai Williams: The Englishman Who Opened the East. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

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  • Morris, Ivan. The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan. Toronto: Holt, Rinehard and Winston of Canada, Ltd., 1975.

  • Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. Re-inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation. Japan in the Modern World. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998.

  • Nelson, John K. Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan. Honolulu: U Hawai’i P, 2000.

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  • Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarizations of Aesthetics in Japanese History. Chicago: U Chicago P, 2002.

  • Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993.

  • Plutschow, Herbert. Chaos and Cosmos: Ritual in Early and Medieval Japanese Literature. Brill’s Japanese Studies Library, v1. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990.

  • Robertson, Jennifer. “It Takes a Village: Internationalization and Nostalgia in Postwar Japan.” Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan. Berkeley, U California P, 1998.

  • Robertson, Jennifer. Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City. Berkeley: U California P, 1991.

  • Rodrigues, Joao. This Island of Japon: Joao Rodrigues’ Account of 16th-Century Japan. Trans and ed. Michael Cooper. m16c.Tokyo: Kodansha, 1973.

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  • Varley, Paul. Japanese Culture. Honolulu: U of Hawai'i P, 2000.

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  • Vlastos, Stephen. Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan. Berkeley: U California P, 1986.

  • Wigen, Karen. The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920. Berkeley: U California P, 1995.

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  • Yano, Christine R. Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002.

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  • Yonemoto, Marcia. Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868). Berkeley: U California P, 2003.


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