@article{oai:atomi.repo.nii.ac.jp:00003360,
 author = {MACK, Karen J},
 issue = {53},
 journal = {跡見学園女子大学文学部紀要, JOURNAL OF ATOMI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LETTERS},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {application/pdf, text, Nagai Kafū in his novel, Bokutō Kidan,used a number of methods not to merely evoke the past, but to superimpose it onto the present through sounds, smells, and material objects.As the narrator recounts, “even the foulness of the gully, and the sounds of the mosquitoes,stimulated my senses bringing back a shadowy image of a past. ” For the narrator of the novel,the present is merely a veneer to be uncovered to reacquire a nostalgic past, as found in such observations as the description of the building in which O-Yuki resided, “from the outside it looked Western by its walls and windows, but inside it was a narrow Japanese house. ” The narrator visits the used-book store by the Sanyabori canal, “not because of the old books themselves, but because of  the character of the bookseller and the atmosphere of  the back-street district outside the licensed quarters”and “from the shape his face, his mannerisms,his use of words, to his way of wearing kimono―to have kept this native shitamachi Tokyo style intact was in my eyes far more precious and nostalgic than any rare old book.O-Yuki charms the narrator, becoming his muse, due to her  “old-style” manner of dress and hairstyle: her “hitoe(unlined)kimono with a suso-moyō hem-design that had been hanging on a kimono stand; with her red Benkei-jima datejima tied large in front, balanced by the slightly too big silver string of her tsubushi-shimada chignon,she looked to my eyes somehow like a strumpet of  the Meiji era. ”Although being seduced by the past is not without its dangers,as the narrator comments,“I was very nearly damned by an used nagajuban, ”when O-Yuki changes to a modern hairstyle, the apparition of the past is lost for the narrator, who soon ceases to visit her.In many such instances given in detail below, Nagai Kafū pays particular attention to dress and hairstyle in his evocation of the past in the present.},
 pages = {A113--A138},
 title = {The Function of Kimono in Nagai Kafū's Bokutō Kidan  Material Culture Communication: Nostalgia and Time Consciousness Expressed through Kimono and Dress},
 year = {2018}
}