1. Plum Sykes, Bergdorf Blondes (New York: Hyperion, 2004), 35.
2. Tanaka Yasuo, Nantonaku, kurisutaru (Tokyo: Shinchō Bunko, 1981).
3. For more on this novel, see Norma Field, “Somehow: The Postmodern as Atmosphere,” in Postmodernism and Japan, ed. Masao Miyoshi and Harry Harootunian (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989), 169–188.
4. Yamada Toyoko, Burando no seiki (Tokyo: Magajin hausu, 2000), 218.
5. Kawahara Toshiaki, Kōtaishi-hi Masako-sama (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1993), 104.