"Boldly rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture from the perspective of media history. This book represents the first systematic study of the ways in which media and inscriptive technologies available in Japan at its threshold of moderniz…
This book addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. During the early decades of the Meiji period (1868-1912), the Japanese encountered an idea with great currency in the West: that the social position of women reflected a…
This book addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. During the early decades of the Meiji period (1868-1912), the Japanese encountered an idea with great currency in the West: that the social position of women reflected a…
"Through analysis of a growing sense of place and affective relationship between the land and its people, this book examines how the landscape shaped a crucial aspect of Japanese identity from the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.
"Through analysis of a growing sense of place and affective relationship between the land and its people, this book examines how the landscape shaped a crucial aspect of Japanese identity from the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century"--
"Empires on the Waterfront offers a new spatial framework for understanding Japan's extended transition into the modern world of nation-states. This study examines a largely unacknowledged system of "special trading ports" that operated under full Japanese jurisdiction in the sh…
"Empires on the Waterfront offers a new spatial framework for understanding Japan's extended transition into the modern world of nation-states. This study examines a largely unacknowledged system of "special trading ports" that operated under full Japanese jurisdiction in the sh…
The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and in export shops catapulted Japanese art to new heights of international popularity. With that popularity came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a perceived end to pure Japanese art an…
The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and in export shops catapulted Japanese art to new heights of international popularity. With that popularity came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a perceived end to pure Japanese art an…
The intellectual and social theorist Yukichi Fukuzawa wrote An Encouragement of Learning (1872-1876) as a series of pamphlets while completing his critical masterpiece, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1875). These closely linked texts illustrate the core tenets of his ph…
"The classic vernacular Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into Japan in the early seventeenth century, it became a ubiquitous source of i…
"Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion"; There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to sign treaties dema…
