On the "Rikyu blood relationship controversy" surrounding the provenance of sen sotan : the path to the contemporary lemoto system / Horota Yoshitaka -- The bieth of itineraries in Edo period tour guidebooks : an exploration of Keijo shoran by Kaibara Ekiken / Jung Eun Kim -- Learning "National Language" through song " Ch'angga and language education in colonial Korea / Kyounghwa Lim -- Shunga and costume / Suzuki Kenkou -- The Japanese film " the Twenty-six martyrs of Japan" and Hirayama Masaju : the cultural activity of the Japanses catholic church in the First half of 1930s / Yamanashi Atsuhsi - The ecriture that emanates from metaphor : the metaphor of water in Lao-tzu and the mode of Soseki's writing / Li Zhe Quan -- TheDispute over pictorial conventions ; in an age that turns from "impression" to "Symbol" / Yoshimoto Yayoi -- "A Portrayal of a warm family" : a father's second marriage and the end of the "war defeat complex" / Ahmed M. Fathy Mostafa -- The Lost Chinese medical compendium Seng-shen-fang cited in I-shin-po : aspects of Busshist medicine as transmitted through East Asia / Iori Tada