Toward the Meiji revolution : the search for "civilization" in ni neteenth-century Japan = "Ishin kakumei" e no michi : "bunmei" o motome ta jï¿½ukyï¿½useiki Nihon / Karube Tadashi ; translated by David Nob le.

By:

Karube, Tadashi, 1965- [ author.]

Contributor(s):

Noble, David [ translator.]

Material type: Text

Text Tokyo, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2019 Ã2019Edition: First English editionDescription: 255 p.: ill. ; 22 cmISBN:

9784866580593 (hardcover)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.0952 23

Contents:

Meiji restoration or Meiji revolution? -- The long revolution -- His tory in reverse -- The Voltaire of Osaka -- Is commerce evil? -- The ag e of economics -- Another side of Motoori Norinaga -- A new cosmology a nd the concept of Ikioi -- Ikioi as the motive force in history -- A fa rewell to the Håoken system -- The advent of "civilization".

Summary: "In 2018 Japan marked the 150th anniversary of the collapse of the T okugawa shogunate and the establishment of a new government under Emper or Meiji. This was not simply a transfer of political authority but ins tead signaled revolutionary transformation in Japan, including the abol ition 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 tho ught and technology, the development of mass media, and the establishme nt of constitutional government. The impact on Japan of diplomatic, eco nomic, and cultural pressure from the United States and other Western p owers from 1853 onward was previously thought to be the immediate catal yst of this 'Meiji Revolution.' But Japan's modern transformation was r ooted in a much deeper process of social and intellectual development t hat gradually unfolded throughout the latter half of the Tokugawa perio d. Surveying a diverse group of thinkers spanning the Tokugawa and earl y Meiji years -- Ogyåu Sorai, Yamagata Bantåo, Motoori Norinaga, Rai Sa n'yåo, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Takekoshi Yosaburåo, and others -- this ambiti ous book liberates modern Japanese history from the stereotypical narra tive of 'Japanese spirit and Western technique,' offering a detailed ex amination of the elements in Tokugawa thought and culture that spurred Japan to articulate its own unique conception of civilization during th e course of the nineteenth century." -- From the dustjacket.

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Originally published in Japan by Shinchåosha, 2017, under title: "Is hin kakumei" e no michi.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-248).

"In 2018 Japan marked the 150th anniversary of the collapse of the T okugawa shogunate and the establishment of a new government under Emper or Meiji. This was not simply a transfer of political authority but ins tead signaled revolutionary transformation in Japan, including the abol ition 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 tho ught and technology, the development of mass media, and the establishme nt of constitutional government. The impact on Japan of diplomatic, eco nomic, and cultural pressure from the United States and other Western p owers from 1853 onward was previously thought to be the immediate catal yst of this 'Meiji Revolution.' But Japan's modern transformation was r ooted in a much deeper process of social and intellectual development t hat gradually unfolded throughout the latter half of the Tokugawa perio d. Surveying a diverse group of thinkers spanning the Tokugawa and earl y Meiji years -- Ogyåu Sorai, Yamagata Bantåo, Motoori Norinaga, Rai Sa n'yåo, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Takekoshi Yosaburåo, and others -- this ambiti ous book liberates modern Japanese history from the stereotypical narra tive of 'Japanese spirit and Western technique,' offering a detailed ex amination of the elements in Tokugawa thought and culture that spurred Japan to articulate its own unique conception of civilization during th e course of the nineteenth century." -- From the dustjacket.

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Toward the Meiji revolution : the search for "civilization" in ni neteenth-century Japan = "Ishin kakumei" e no michi : "bunmei" o motome ta jï¿½ukyï¿½useiki Nihon / Karube Tadashi ; translated by David Nob le.