This anthology addresses the modern musical culture of interwar Osaka and its surrounding Hanshin region. Modernity as experienced in this locale, with its part

Oda Sakunosuke (1913-43) is described in Japan as one of the 3hooligan school2 of writers, who worked before and during WW2. Seeking to create an underground li

One of the first books to focus on a city other than Edo during the Tokugawa era, this work extends our understanding of Japanese urban life during that period.