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Culture of the Meiji Period

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ISBN-10: 0691000301

ISBN-13: 9780691000305

Edition: 1988

Authors: Daikichi Irokawa, Marius B. Jansen

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/21/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Preface to the English Translation
Editor's Introduction
Introduction
Japan: A Very Strange Country
The Emperor System as a "Weight Upon the Eyes,"
The Limits and Scope of the Problem
The Creation of A Grass-Roots Culture
The Silent Folk World
First Stirring
Subtle Transformations Toward Modernity
A Sickness of Soul
The Impact of the Restoration on Mountain Villages
The Impact Of Western Culture
The Approach of Reform Bureaucrats
Advocates of Enlightenment and the People
The Cultural Gulf Between Japan and the West
Wandering Pilgrims
Restoration Youth
A Spiritual Journey
Grass-Roots Self-Government
Substitution and Restatement
Creating a People's Constitution
Swan Song
Poetry in Chinese and Revolutionary Thought
Onuma Chinzan and Mori Shunto
Two Contrasting Undercurrents
Historical Consciousness and Poetic Spirit
The Life of Local Men of Letters
Politics and Literature
The Heights and Depths of Popular Consciousness
The Voices of the Inarticulate
The Thoughts of Unknown Soldiers
Mountain Village Communes
Abandoning Conventional Morality
The Clash of Ideas at the Lower Social Level
From Peak to Valley
Carriers of Meiji Culture
The Establishment of the Japanese Intellectual Class
Opening the Eye to the Inner Life
Views of Civilization
Meiji Conditions of Nonculture
Desperate Farming Villages in the Meiji Era
Consciousness in the Lower Depths
The Age of the Lost Ideal
The Emperor System as a Spiritual Structure
Introduction
The Legacy of Kokutai
The Emperor and the People
A Tradition Without Structure
Maruyama's Interpretation of Kokutai
The Kyodotai
The "Family-State" (Kazoku Kokka)
"Domicide" (Iegoroshi)
A Soldier's Feelings
The Power of National Education
Conclusion
Index of Names Cited