Comparisons, n°18/2016

#	Article Title	Author
1.	Spis treści	Redakcja
2.	Wstęp	Estera Żeromska
3.	On the semantic capacity of chosen words and exptressions in different contexts and their conotations	Agnieszka Żuławska-Umeda
4.	Translation/interpretation in the Japanese-Polish context. Some remarks	Arkadiusz Jabłoński
5.	The analysis of similarities and differences in the interpretations of the skeleton as a supernatural being in Christian Western Europe and Japan	Agnieszka Pączkowska
6.	„The smoke ended, and Toribeno in its snowy mantle seems to a grieving heart like the whitened trees of crane grove”. On the Buddhist concept of vanity and necropolistic threads in Japanese literature of the early medieval period	Adam Bednarczyk
7.	Japanese lyrical prose on the example of Ise monogatari (Tales from Ise)	Iwona Kordzińska-Nawrocka
8.	Love, nature and the city. The influence of Émile Verhaeren on the works of Takamura Kōtarō	Katarzyna Sonnenberg
9.	”Living ghosts” (ikiryō) as the contents of subconsciousness in Kafka on the shore by Murakami Haruki	Agnieszka Kozyra
10.	Abe Kōbō – between modernism and postmodernism. Reflections on the novel Kangaroo notebook	Mikołaj Melanowicz
11.	Blade Runner in the time warp complex: the movie by Ridley Scott in Shono Yoriko’s novel	Beata Kubiak-Ho-Chi
12.	The identity issue in Okinawan literature of the 20th century (on the example of the short stories Officer Ukuma Ikemiyagi Sekihō and Mothers, women Nakandakari Hatsu)	Anna Spinek-Bomke
13.	Kyōgen, the Japanese comedy of crazy words and dell’arte comedy	Anna Zalewska
14.	On the border of realism: woman and womanhood in the Japanese theatre	Estera Żeromska
15.	Music in Kojiki	Marta Wesołowska
16.	This article focuses on the descriptions of music in Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters, 712) − the oldest existing chronicle of Japan. The author discusses respectively: the circumstances of the creation of Kojiki (activity of Hieda no Are, the compiler f	Małgorzata Wolniak
17.	“Everyone is naked when taking a bath”. Saitō Torajirō’s Five men from Tokyo and the democratization in the Japanese film	Andrzej Świrkowski
18.	The unknown face of Kusama Yayoi – Japanese artist and writer	Paweł Pachciarek
19.	Czech-Slovak comparative studies “reborn”. A new association on the way	Miloš Zelenka
20.	Między kryzysem a rozwojem. Ogólnopolskie Sympozjum Dydaktyków Komparatystyki, Toruń, 30-31 marca 2016 roku	Redakcja
21.	Recenzje	Redakcja
22.	Omówienia	Redakcja