Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture / / ed. by Donald H. Shively.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• MitwirkendeR: Blacker, Carmen,; Brower, Robert H.,; Haga, Tōru,; Hibbett, Howard S.,; Keene, Donald,; Malm, William P.,; McClellan, Edwin,; Miller, Roy Andrew,; Nagai, Michio,; Ortolani, Benito,; Rosenfield, John M.,; Seidensticker, Edward,; Shively, Donald H.,; Soviak, Eugene,; Viglielmo, Valdo Humbert,
• HerausgeberIn: Shively, Donald H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the Modernization of Japan ; 1854
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (712 p.)

Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowing from the West in the first decades after the Restoration: the formulation of strategies for modernizing and the adaptation of Western models to Meiji culture. In the second half of the volume, the darker side, the pathology of modernization, is seen. The adjustment of the individual and the effects of progressive modernization on culture in an increasingly complex, twentieth-century society are recurring themes. They are illustrated with particular intensity in the experience of such writers as Natsume Soseki and Kobayashi Hideo, in the thought of Nishida Kitaro, and in the millenarian aspects of the new religions.Originally published in 1971.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 Illustrations -- Foreword -- Editor's Preface -- PART ONE. Strategies for Modernizing -- Introduction -- CHAPTER I. On the Nature of Western Progress: The Journal of the Iwakura Embassy -- CHAPTER II .Westernization and Japanization: The Early Meiji Transformation of Education -- CHAPTER III. The Japanization of the Middle Meiji -- CHAPTER IV. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and Its Cultural Effects in Japan -- PART TWO. The Arts in the Meiji Period -- Introduction -- CHAPTER V. Western-Style Painting in the Early Meiji Period and Its Critics -- CHAPTER VI. The Formation of Realism in Meiji Painting: The Artistic Career of Takahashi Yuichi -- CHAPTER VII. The Modern Music of Meiji Japan -- PART THREE. The Search for Identity in Literature -- Introduction -- CHAPTER VIII. Natsume Sōseki and the Psychological Novel -- CHAPTER IX. Toson and the Autobiographical Novel -- CHAPTER X. Masaoka Shiki and Tanka Reform -- CHAPTER XI. Kobayashi Hideo -- CHAPTER XII. Fukuda Tsuneari: Modernization and Shingeki -- PART FOUR. Philosophy, Religion, and Language -- Introduction -- CHAPTER XIII. Nishida Kitarō: The Early Years -- CHAPTER XIV. Millenarian Aspects of the New Religions in Japan -- CHAPTER XV. Levels of Speech (keigo) and the Japanese Linguistic Response to Modernization -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- Index