Values, identity, and equality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan / / edited by Peter Nosco, James Ketelaar, Yasunori Kojima.
The chapters in this volume variously challenge a number of long-standing assumptions regarding eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese society, and especially that society’s values, structure and hierarchy; the practical limits of state authority; and the emergence of individual and collective...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Japanese Studies Library, Volume 52 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Japanese studies library ;
Volume 52. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Introduction: Values, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan / Peter Nosco and James E. Ketelaar
- 2 Waiting for the Flying Fish to Leap: Revisiting the Values and Individuality of Tokugawa People as Practiced / Ikegami Eiko
- 3 Good Older Brother, Bad Younger Brother: Sibling Rivalry in the Hirata Family / Anne Walthall
- 4 Being a Brat: The Ethics of Child Disobedience in the Edo Period / W. Puck Brecher
- 5 The Early Modern Co-Emergence of Individuality and Collective Identity / Peter Nosco
- 6 Rebirth of a Hirata School Nativist: Tsuruya Ariyo and His Kaganabe Journal / Gideon Fujiwara
- 7 New Cultures, New Identities: Becoming Okinawan and Japanese in Nineteenth-Century Ryukyu / Gregory Smits
- 8 Searching For Erotic Emotionality in Tokugawa Japan / James E. Ketelaar
- 9 Laughter Connects the Sacred (sei 聖) and the Sexual (sei 性): The Blossoming of Parody in Edo Culture / Kojima Yasunori
- 10 The Unconventional Origins of Modern Japan: Mantei Ōga vs. Fukuzawa Yukichi / M. William Steele
- 11 Flowery Tales: Ōe Taku, Kōbe and the Making of Meiji Japan’s ‘Emancipation Moment’ / Daniel V. Botsman
- 12 From Relational Identity to Specific Identity: On Equality and Nationality / Sakai Naoki
- 13 Epilogue: Reimagining Early Modern Japan—Beyond the Imagined/Invented Modern Nation / Isomae Jun’ichi
- Glossary
- Index for Values, Identity and Equality.