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Quand le Japon s'ouvrit au monde.
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ISBN: 207053118X 9782070531189 Year: 1990 Volume: 99 Publisher: Paris Gallimard

The collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu 1862-1868.
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ISBN: 082480614X Year: 1980 Publisher: Honolulu University press of Hawaii

The Meiji restoration.
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ISBN: 0804708150 9780804708159 Year: 1972 Publisher: Stanford Stanford university


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Toward restoration : the growth of political consciousness in Tokugawa Japan.
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ISBN: 0520015665 Year: 1970 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press


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Japan in Transition
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ISBN: 0691102457 140085430X 0691604843 0691054592 1306989795 0691633851 9780691604848 9781400854301 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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In this book social scientists scrutinize the middle decades of the nineteenth century in Japan. That scrutiny is important and overdue, for the period from the 1850s to the 1880s has usually been treated in terms of politics and foreign relations. Yet those decades were also of pivotal importance in Japan's institutional modernization. As the Japanese entered the world order, they experienced a massive introduction of Western-style organizations. Sweeping reforms, without the class violence or the Utopian appeal of revolution, created the foundation for a modern society. The Meiji Restoration introduced a political transformation, but these chapters address the more gradual social transition.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Toward the Meiji revolution : the search for "civilization" in nineteenth century Japan
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ISBN: 9784866580593 4866580593 Year: 2019 Publisher: Tokyo Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

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In 2018, Japan marked the 150th anniversary of the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the establishment of a new government under Emperor Meiji. This was not simply a transfer of political authority. Instead, it signaled revolutionary transformation in Japan, including the abolition of the domains and the formation of a modern nation-state in the years that followed. A period of radical social change was ushered in, with the abolition of the class system, the introduction of Western thought and technology, the development of mass media, and the establishment of constitutional government. The impact on Japan of diplomatic, economic, and cultural pressure from the United States and other Western powers from 1853 onward was previously thought to be the immediate catalyst of this "Meiji Revolution." But Japan's modern transformation was rooted in a much deeper process of social and intellectual development that gradually unfolded throughout the latter half of the Tokugawa period. Surveying a diverse group of thinkers spanning the Tokugawa and early Meiji years - Ogyū Sorai, Yamagata Bantō, Motoori Norinaga, Rai San'yō, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Takekoshi Yosaburō, and others -- this book liberates modern Japanese history from the stereotypical narrative of "Japanese spirit and Western technique," offering an examination of the elements in Tokugawa thought and culture that spurred Japan to articulate its own unique conception of civilization during the course of the nineteenth century.--adapted from jacket.


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The chaos and cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko : one woman's transit from Tokugawa to Meiji Japan
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ISBN: 9780824839574 0824839579 Year: 2015 Publisher: Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press

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Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko is the story of a self described base-born nobody who tried to change the course of Japanese history. Kurosawa Tokiko (1806u1890), a commoner from rural Mito domain, was a poet, teacher, oracle, and political activist. In 1859 she embraced the xenophobic loyalist faction (known for the motto revere the emperor, expel the barbarians) and traveled to Kyoto to denounce the shoguns policies before the emperor. She was arrested for slander, taken to Edos infamous Tenmach? prison, and sentenced to banishment. In her later years, having crossed the Tokugawa-Meiji divide, Tokiko became an elementary school teacher and experienced firsthand the modernizing policies of the new government. After her death she was honored with court rank for her devotion to the loyalist cause. Tokikos story reflects not only some of the key moments in Japans transition to the modern era, but also some of its lesser-known aspects, thereby providing us with a broader narrative of the late-Tokugawa crisis, the collapse of the shogunate, and the rise of the Meiji state. The peculiar combination of no-nonsense single- mindedness and visionary flights of imagination evinced in her numerous diaries and poetry collections nuances our understanding of activism and political consciousness among rural non-elites by blurring the lines between the rational and the irrational, focus and folly. Tokikos use of prognostication and her appeals to cosmic forces point to the creative paths women have constructed to take part in political debates as well as the resourcefulness required to preserve ones identity in the face of changing times. In the early twentieth century, Tokiko was reimagined in the popular press and her story rewritten to offset fears about female autonomy and boost local and national agendas. These distorted and romanticized renditions offer compelling examples of the politicization of the past and of the extent to which present anxieties shape historical memory. That Tokiko was unimportant and her loyalist mission a failure is irrelevant. What is significant is that through her life story we are able to discern the ordinary individual in the midst of history. By putting an extra in the spotlight, The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko offers a new script for the drama that unfolded on the stage of late-Tokugawa and early Meiji history. --Provided by publisher.

Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji restoration.
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ISBN: 9780231101738 0231101732 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York Columbia university press

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