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Zen at War.Second edition
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ISBN: 9780742539266 Year: 2006 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

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


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From country to nation : ethnographic studies, kokugaku, and spirits in nineteenth-century Japan
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ISBN: 1501753932 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University East Asia Program,

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This text tracks the emergence of the modern Japanese nation in the nineteenth century through the history of some of its local aspirants. It explores how kokugaku (Japan studies) scholars envisioned their place within Japan and the globe, while living in a castle town and domain far north of the political capital.


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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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Revisiting Japan's restoration : New approaches to the study of the Meiji transformation
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ISBN: 103207583X 1003207774 100050817X 1000508188 1032075783 9781032075839 9781032075785 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Routledge

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"This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of approaches and interpretations of the Restoration that showcase the strengths of the most recent interpretative trends in history writing on Japan while simultaneously offering new research pathways. On a scale probably never before seen in the study of the Restoration outside Japan, the short chapters in this volume reveal unique aspects of the this transformative event and process not previously explored in previous research. They do this in three core ways: through selecting and deploying different time frames in their historical analysis; by creative experimentation with different spatial units through which to ascertain historical experience; and by innovative selection of unique and highly original topics for analysis. The volume offers students and teachers of Japanese history, modern history, and East Asian studies an important resource for coming to grips with the multifaceted nature of Japan's nineteenth century transformation. The volume will also have broader appeal to scholars working in fields such as early modern/modern world history, global history, Asian modernities, gender studies, economic history, and postcolonial studies"--


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A.B. Mitford and the birth of Japan as a modern state : letters home
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ISBN: 1898823537 1898823480 Year: 2017 Publisher: Kent : Renaissance Books,

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Mitford (later to become the first Lord Redesdale) was an urbane aristocrat, had charm, looks and excellent manners. He was always in the right place at the right time, almost drowned, could have burned to death, was shot at, and was nearly cut down by samurai swords. But 'Bertie', as he was known, was never fazed by events. He stood face-to-face with the new, teenage Emperor when almost everybody else, including the Shogun, could only talk to him behind a screen. He became friendly with the last Shogun and witnessed a hara-kiri, his atmospheric account of which is now a classic. An accomplished linguist and writer, Mitford was the outstanding chronicler of the Meiji Restoration, complementing the writings of his contemporary Ernest Satow. This book will be of particular interest to students and readers of Japanese history, as well as readers of nineteenth-century biography in general. It will also have special appeal to those who are familiar with the Mitford family history.

War, revolution & Japan
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ISBN: 1873410085 0203989988 9780203989982 9781873410080 1135319014 9781135319014 1280147016 9781280147012 9781135318963 1135318964 9781135319007 1135319006 9781138405974 1138405973 Year: 1993 Publisher: Folkestone : Japan Library,

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