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An English edition of works by the great Japanese political thinker Ogyu Sorai.
Author : Tetsuo Najita
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 1998-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521567176
An English edition of works by the great Japanese political thinker Ogyu Sorai.
Author : Luke S. Roberts
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824853013
Performing the Great Peace offers a cultural approach to understanding the politics of the Tokugawa period, at the same time deconstructing some of the assumptions of modern national historiographies. Deploying the political terms uchi (inside), omote (ritual interface), and naisho (informal negotiation)—all commonly used in the Tokugawa period—Luke Roberts explores how daimyo and the Tokugawa government understood political relations and managed politics in terms of spatial autonomy, ritual submission, and informal negotiation. Roberts suggests as well that a layered hierarchy of omote and uchi relations strongly influenced politics down to the village and household level, a method that clarifies many seeming anomalies in the Tokugawa order. He analyzes in one chapter how the identities of daimyo and domains differed according to whether they were facing the Tokugawa or speaking to members of the domain and daimyo household: For example, a large domain might be identified as a“country” by insiders and as a “private territory” in external discourse. In another chapter he investigates the common occurrence of daimyo who remained formally alive to the government months or even years after they had died in order that inheritance issues could be managed peacefully within their households. The operation of the court system in boundary disputes is analyzed as are the “illegal” enshrinements of daimyo inside domains that were sometimes used to construct forms of domain-state Shinto. Performing the Great Peace’s convincing analyses and insightful conceptual framework will benefit historians of not only the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, but Japan in general and others seeking innovative approaches to premodern history.
Author : Kate Wildman Nakai
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
Preliminary Material -- The Contours of Bakufu Politics -- Jusha and Yoriai -- Associates and Rivals -- Intellectual Influences, Psychological Disposition -- Fiscal Exigencies: Approaches to the Economic Foundations of Bakufu Rule -- Shogun, Daimyo, and Populace: The Role of the Ruler in the Bakuhan State -- The Shogun and His Officials: Perspectives on the Bakufu Administrative Structure -- The Creation of a King: Reshaping the Symbols of Shogunal Authority -- Answering Critics -- Arguing from History: Reappraisal of the Eternal Sovereignty of the Imperial Line -- Redefinition of the Parameters of Buke Rule -- Contradictions -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.
Author : H. D. Harootunian
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520074033
H. D. Harootunian has provided a new preface for the paperback edition of his classic study Toward Restoration, the first intellectual history of the Meiji Restoration in English. Book jacket.
Author : John S. Brownlee
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 1991-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0889209979
It was only at the onset of the Tokugawa period (1602-1868) that formal political thought emerged in Japan. Prior to that time Japanese scholars had concentrated, rather, on questions of legitimacy and authority in historical writing., producing a stream of works. Brownlee’s illuminating study describes twenty of these important historical works commencing with Kojiki (712) and Nihon Shoki (720) and ending with Tokushi Yoron (1712) by Arai Hakuseki. Historical writing would cease to be the sole vehicle for political discussion in Japan in the eighteenth century as Chinese Confucian thought became dominant. The author illustrates how the first works conceptualized history as imperial history and that subsequent scholars were unable to devise alternative schemes or patterns for history until Arai Hakuseki. Following the first histories, the central concern became the question of the relation of the Emperors to the new powers that arose. Brownlee examines the genre of Historical Tales and how it treated the Fujiwara Regents, the War Tales dealing with warriors at large, and specific works of historical argument depicting the Bakufu in relation to the Emperors. By interposing the works of Gukanshø (1219) by Jien, Jinnø Shøtøki (1339) by Kitabatake Chikafusa and Tokushi Yoron by Arai Hakuseki a clear pattern, demonstrating the sequential development of complexity and sophistication in handling the question, is revealed. Japanese political thought thus developed independently towards rationalism and secularism in early modern times.
Author : Katsuya Hirano
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 022606073X
In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—including fashion, leisure activities, prints, and theater. He does so by examining the works of writers and artists who depicted and celebrated the culture of play and pleasure associated with Edo’s street entertainers, vagrants, actors, and prostitutes, whom Tokugawa authorities condemned to be detrimental to public mores, social order, and political economy. Hirano uncovers a logic of politics within Edo’s cultural works that was extremely potent in exposing contradictions between the formal structure of the Tokugawa world and its rapidly changing realities. He goes on to look at the effects of this logic, examining policies enacted during the next era—the Meiji period—that mark a drastic reconfiguration of power and a new politics toward ordinary people under modernizing Japan. Deftly navigating Japan’s history and culture, The Politics of Dialogic Imaginationprovides a sophisticated account of a country in the process of radical transformation—and of the intensely creative culture that came out of it.
Author : David Magarey Earl
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
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Category : Japan
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Author : Herman Ooms
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Japan
ISBN : 9780939512850
The classic study of seventeenth-century Japan.
Author : Nam-lin Hur
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 168417452X
"Buddhism was a fact of life and death during the Tokugawa period (1600–1868): every household was expected to be affiliated with a Buddhist temple, and every citizen had to be given a Buddhist funeral. The enduring relationship between temples and their affiliated households gave rise to the danka system of funerary patronage.This private custom became a public institution when the Tokugawa shogunate discovered an effective means by which to control the populace and prevent the spread of ideologies potentially dangerous to its power—especially Christianity. Despite its lack of legal status, the danka system was applied to the entire population without exception; it became for the government a potent tool of social order and for the Buddhist establishment a practical way to ensure its survival within the socioeconomic context of early modern Japan.In this study, Nam-lin Hur follows the historical development of the danka system and details the intricate interplay of social forces, political concerns, and religious beliefs that drove this “economy of death” and buttressed the Tokugawa governing system. With meticulous research and careful analysis, Hur demonstrates how Buddhist death left its mark firmly upon the world of the Tokugawa Japanese."
Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780964447
Towards the end of the 16th century three outstanding commanders brought Japan's century of civil wars to an end, but it was Tokugawa Leyasu who was to ensure a lasting peace. In terms of his strategic and political achievements Leyasu ranks as Japan's greatest samurai commander. Leyasu possessed the rare wisdom of knowing who should be an ally and who was an enemy, a key skill for a successful military leader. Leyasu's crowning victory at Sekigahara depended on the defection to his side of Kobayakawa Hideaki, and the absence from the scene of Ieyasu's son Hidetada serves to illustrate how just once there was a failure in Ieyasu's otherwise classic strategic vision. To establish his family as the ruling clan in Japan for the next two and a half centuries was abundant proof of his true greatness.