@article{oai:nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp:00007627,
 author = {FOLLADOR, Elena},
 journal = {Japan review : Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This article focuses on Shōjin gyorui monogatari, a Muromachi-period (1336– 1467) text which describes an imaginary battle between vegetarian and nonvegetarian foods. Its theme of war and its anthropomorphic characters make it one of the oldest instances of irui gassen mono (tales of battles between nonhuman beings,) and as such it has been mostly valued for its intertextual relationship with war tales (gunkimono). This article has three major aims. First, it introduces this text to a Western audience in order to broaden the scope of investigation of Japanese literature. Second, it attempts to provide a fresh perspective on Shōjin gyorui monogatari by proposing to reconsider it as a textbook rather than an otogizōshi with a secondary pedagogic aim. The didactic content covered, I argue, was not limited to the acquisition of literacy regarding animals and plants, but included words for other semantic categories and encompassed a broader culinary education that also looked at food for its cultural and symbolic values too. Through this recontextualization, I question the received view of the text as a parody of the war tale Heike monogatari. Finally, this article also offers this case study as a new touchstone for research on anthropomorphism and, more specifically, on its relationship with pedagogy and cognitive criticism.},
 pages = {31--58},
 title = {Re-contextualizing Shōjin gyorui monogatari, or When the Fish Declared War on the Greens},
 volume = {35},
 year = {2021}
}