Toward the Meiji revolution : the search for "civilization" in nineteenth-century Japan = ["Ishin kakumei" eno michi : "bunmei" o motometa jūkyūseiki nihon] / Karube Tadashi ; translated by David Noble.
Karube, Tadashi, 1965- author.; Noble, David, translator.
2019
JA84.J3 K36413 2019 (Mapit)
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Title Toward the Meiji revolution : the search for "civilization" in nineteenth-century Japan = ["Ishin kakumei" eno michi : "bunmei" o motometa jūkyūseiki nihon] / Karube Tadashi ; translated by David Noble.
Author Karube, Tadashi, 1965- author.
Uniform Title "Ishin kakumei" e no michi. English
Variant Title Japanese title in colophon: Ishin kakumei e no michi
Edition First English edition.
ISBN 9784866580593 (hardcover)
4866580593 (hardcover)
Published Tokyo, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2019.
Language English
Language Note In English with original Japanese title on colophon and jacket.
Description 255 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Call Number JA84.J3 K36413 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 952.031
Summary "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 but instead 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 ambitious book liberates modern Japanese history from the stereotypical narrative of 'Japanese spirit and Western technique,' offering a detailed 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." -- From the dustjacket.
Note Originally published in Japan by Shinchōsha, 2017, under title: "Ishin kakumei" e no michi.
Translated from Japanese.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-248).
Added Author Noble, David, translator.
Series Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
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