Imahayashi, Osamu, and Hiroji Fukumoto, eds.
Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2004.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, where the summary of contents includes reference, without page numbers, to two essays that pertain to Chaucer: "Chaucer's 'Semely' and Its Related Words from an Optical Point of View," by Yoshiyuki Nakao, and…
Contains essays on Chaucer's use of language, speech, and tone. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for The Pleasure of English Language and Literature under Alternative Title.
Argues that the scheme of "diminution" penetrates every dimension of Th and discusses how the meanings are generated and complicated through combination of different dimensions. In Japanese.
Jimura, Akiyuki, and Hisayuki Sasamoto, trans.
Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2020.
Using the Riverside edition, translates LGW, ABC, Pity, Lady, Mars, Ven, Ros, Adam, Purse, Wom Unc, Compl d'Am, and MercB into Japanese, with introductory and supplementary notes. Includes brief timeline and description of Chaucer's life. In…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Hisao Tsuru, ed. Fiction and Truth: Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 2000), pp. 133-44.
Assessing the punctuation in editions by Baugh, Donaldson, Fisher, Howard, Pollard, Robinson, Root, Skeat, and Windeatt, Nakao suggests that editorial punctuation of TC obscures another voice of Crisyede.
Haruta, Setsuko.
Hisao Tsuru, ed. Fiction and Truth: Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 2000), pp. 213-21.
Examines the historical situation of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Castile, challenging the traditional interpretation that The Book of the Duchess is an elegy for Blanche.
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Hisao Tsuru, ed. Fiction and Truth: Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 2000), pp. 35-46.
Explores the relationship between orality and literacy and between authority and experience in the context of medieval folk culture, dealing with BD and HF.
Saito, Isamu.
Hisao Tsuru, ed. Fiction and Truth: Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 2000), pp. 61-78 (in Japanese), pp. 61-78.
Explores the double meanings of "outrider," "venerie," and "prikasour," focusing on the Monk in The General Prologue.
Matsuda, Suguru.
Hisao Tsuru, ed. Fiction and Truth: Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 2000), pp. 9-18.
Argues that Chaucer criticized the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, treating the medieval status of the Parson; Lollardy; and Chaucerian concern with people of the lower classes.
Ikegami, Tadahiro.
Hisao Turu, ed. Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5 (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo Press, 1991), pp. 119-41 (in Japanese).
Examines how BD was influenced by the conventions of French and Latin literature. Concludes that the poet found novelty in classical authors and created his own imaginary love poem.
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Hisao Turu, ed. Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5 (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo Press, 1991), pp. 142-70 (in Japanese).
Analyzes the relationship of the real world to the dream world in BD and surveys noncourtly innovations derived from French romances, taking account of Chaucer scholarship of the late twentieth century.
Ebi, Hisato.
Hisao Turu, ed. Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5 (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo Press, 1991), pp. 171-200 (in Japanese).
Allegorical elements of BD are closely connected with the theory of melancholy in the late-medieval period. Emphasizes parallelism between mental diseases (melancholy) and the creative mind.
Turu, Hisao.
Hisao Turu, ed. Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5 (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo Press, 1991), pp. 201-20 (in Japanese).
The Knight in Black is not John of Gaunt but his young squire, who admired and served his dear duchess.
Yamamoto, Toshiki.
Hisao Turu, ed. Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5 (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo Press, 1991), pp. 244-67 (in Japanese).
Relates the dream vision in BD to the tradition of the religious vision and the speeches of the Knight in Black to the resurrection theme.
Ikegami, Tadahiro.
Hisashi Shigeo, et al., eds. The Wife of Bath (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo, 1985), pp. 101-22.
Examines irony of WBP based both on antifeminism and on antimaritalism of medieval European literature and shows that Alison is a comic, dramatic character.
Miyoshi, Yoko.
Hisashi Shigeo, et al., eds. The Wife of Bath (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo, 1985), pp. 30-47.
From the viewpoint of a history of social economics, Miyoshi explains why the poet chooses Bath as the Wife's place and shows that it was not unusual to to marry five times.
