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Contemporary Japanese Thought. By Richard F. Calichman, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. 320. Cloth. ISBN: 0-231-13620-X.

Atkins is both well informed of contemporary scholarship of the plays he takes up, and possessed of original insights. As can be seen from the topics chosen, his readings raise a number of issues that are central to the study of Noh. This work is then a welcome addition to the secondary literature on Noh, full of original insights, by a well-informed scholar, and, as it happens, beautifully produced with a large number of illustrations. It suffers however, at times, from a lack of intellectual clarity. This probably derives ultimately from the insuperable difficulties in its aims, arising from the obscurity of Zenchiku’s views and the uncertainty of his attributions.