This course examines the ways that exteriority (rather than interiority), specifically urban space, informs and is registered in literary texts in relation to the perceiving subject's body in its entirety, including and yet not reduced to the eye. The body is considered not to be opposed to the mind, but to be coordinated with the mind. Inspired by theories of senses (sound, smell, taste, touch, as well as sight), spatial practices (e.g., walking, riding vehicles), and non-literary art forms (e.g., photography, film, architecture, and urban planning), we will reconsider how literary texts we read and write are neither autonomous nor static but are exposed to and interact with the world of multi-sensoriality and the multi-media. The city's mode of operation, the itinerant and kinetic movement of the body, and the traffic of the gaze, gesture, and other sensual relations between bodies and between bodies and things in the city have a crucial impact on the ways that texts are formed. In turn, literary discourse informs those who experience their environs of ways to read, make sense of, and grapple with urban space. We will discuss how the city, the body, and the text help to form and transform each other, in spatially and corporeally conscious stories, travelogues, and novels (in excerpts) of the late nineteenth to early twenty-first century Japanese literature. The city is not just a setting for stories. The body is not subordinate to the mind. And the text is not just a medium of representation. These three cannot be thought of autonomously of one another in the age of literature after the spatial turn and geography after the narrative turn.