Joshua MostowJoshua Mostow is Professor of Asian Studies at The University of British Columbia. He research interests are premodern Japanese literature, in translation and in the original; premodern Japanese text and image inter-relations; classical Japanese langage; Japanese women's self-writing; post-colonial theory; Edo sexuality; and Japanese film. His publications include Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image (Hawai'i Press, 1996), At the House of Gathered Leaves: Shorter Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives from Japanese Court Literature (Hawai'i Press 2004) and The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature (CUP, 2003). Read More Read Less