Private Academies of the Tokugawa Period / / Richard Rubinger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Rubinger, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 577
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)

Widening the focus of previous studies of Japanese education during the Tokugawa period, Richard Rubinger emphasizes the role of the shijuku, or private academies of advanced studies, in preparing Japan for its modern transformation.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Prefatory Note -- Introduction -- I. Cultural Integration and Education: The rugaku System -- Case Studies. Part One. Chinese Studies Shijuku -- II. Chinese Studies Shijuku of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- III. Nineteenth-Century Chinese Studies ShiJuku: Hirose Tanso's Kangien -- Case Studies. Part Two. Dutch Studies Shijuku -- Introduction: Overview of Dutch Studies in Tokugawa Japan -- IV. Dutch Studies Shijuku in Edo and Nagasaki -- V. Dutch Studies Shijuku in Osaka: Ogata Koan's Teki Juku -- Case Studies. Part Three. Other Types of Shijuku -- Introduction -- VI. Kokugaku Juku: Motoori Norinaga's Suzu no Ya -- VII. Schools of the "Practical" Arts: Military Juku, Schools of Calligraphy and Calculation -- VIII. Direct Action Juku -- IX. Conclusion: Shijuku and Patterns of Tugaku in the Creation of a Modernizing Elite -- Appendices -- A. A Historiographical Note on Schools in the Tokugawa Period -- B. A Note on the "Shijuku-Terakoya Chart" in Nihon Kydiku-shi Shiryo (JMKSS) -- C. Development of the Kangien Compound -- D. A Note on Currency and Shijuku Fees -- E. BriefBiographies of Selected Kangien Students by Career -- F. Entrance Fees at Dutch Schools in Edo -- G. Biographies of Selected Students from Ogata Koan's TekiJukuMentionedintheText -- H. Biographies of Selected Students at Shoka Sonjuku -- I. Outlines of Educational Backgrounds and Careers of Selected Early Meiji Leaders Mentioned in the Text -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index