Index Original Articles Constantinople and Relics: The Adventus Ceremony of the Image of Edessa in 944 Koichi INOUE 2-19 The Warlords’ Formation in the Hanzhou Cities and the Area Reorganization for the Last Years of Tang Dynasty Satoshi YAMAZAKI 20-33 Note The Function of Kamagasaki (Yoseba) in the Port Shipping Industry between the 1950s and 1960s Takeshi HARAGUCHI 34-49 Cultural Policy: the Heaven Artist Program in Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Modern Urban Space Susumu YAMAGUCHI 50-62 Symposium Overseas Scholarly Trends on the History of Chinese Cities 63 Three Problems on Writing History of Shanghai Urban Social Life Hang QIAN (tr. by T. INOUE) 64-69 American Scholarship on Chinese Cities Liping WANG (tr. by S. TAKAHATA) 70-82 Chinese Urban History in Four Lights Shunji OGURO 83-85 Special Articles Irie Taikichi and the Age of KOGEISHA in Prewar Osaka-Japan 1925-1938: Focusing on Related Materials of UEDA CAMERA Co., and a Few Newly Discovered Historical Sources Naoto OGAWA 86-101 News 102-112 Editorial 113 Contributors 114