Tōhoku Unbounded : : Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan / / Anne Giblin Gedacht.

• Superior document: Studies in Global Social History Series ; Volume 48
• VerfasserIn: Gedacht, Anne Giblin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in global social history ; Volume 48.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 pages)

"In 1870, a prominent samurai from Tōhoku sells his castle to become an agrarian colonist in Hokkaidō. Decades later, a man also from northeast Japan stows away on a boat to Canada and establishes a salmon roe business. By 1930, an investigative journalist travels to Brazil and writes a book...

Table of Contents

• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface: Reading Harry Potter in Japan
• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• Introduction: Region Matters
• 1 Inside Yet Outside: Tōhoku as Terrestrial Jurisdiction and Tōhoku as Idea
• 2 Transcending Place: Mobile Tōhoku and the Tōhoku Modern
• 3 Historicizing the Mobile Body to Deterritorialize the Japanese State
• 4 Tōhoku Mobility, an Identity in Motion
• Chapter 1 Looking North: Assessing the Boundaries of the Meiji State
• 1 Before Tōhoku: Placing Ōu Cartographically and Politically
• 2 Becoming a Borderland-in-Transition and Catalyzing Frontier-to-Frontier Migration
• 3 Dismantling Ken, Dismembering Maps, and Defining Tōhoku
• 4 Settling Hokkaidō through Patronage: Tōhoku Families Move North
• 5 Repositioning Power through Co-dependence: Date Kunishige in Iburi
• 6 Identifying a Pattern: Regionalism as Cornerstone of Private Settlement
• 7 Mobilized Regionalism and Reframing the Soldier-Settler Villages
• 8 Tondenhei in the Imperial Army: Confounding Loyalties and Readjudicating the Modern
• 9 Pragmatism and the Hokkaidō Modern: Blurring Class and Rising Regionalism
• 10 Conclusion
• Chapter 2 Exporting Regionalism: Tōhoku-Japanese Immigrant Culture
• 1 To Be 'Japanese' Abroad: The Hegemonic Culture of Japan's Southwestern Issei
• 2 Emigrants as Embodiments of National Prestige
• 3 Imagining 'Japan,' Discovering the 'Japanese'
• 4 To Be from Both Japan and 'Tōhoku,' Regionalism from the Outside
• 5 To Be Both Emigrant and Immigrant: The Institutionalization of Difference within Unity
• 6 Tōhoku-Based Kenjinkai in Southern California: Sharing Wealth and Building Community
• 7 Sojourners and Settlers: Building Bridges between Japan and Canada through Kenjinkai
• 8 Conclusion.
• Chapter 3 Normalizing the Exceptional: History, Myth, and Memory in Immigrant Ethnicity
• 1 Narrating the Exceptional: History and Mythmaking
• 2 Gannen-Mono and Boshin War Refugees: Revisiting the Wakamatsu Colony
• 3 Martyred Memories: The Ghost of Okei and the Nobility of Failure
• 4 The Roots of Migrant Lineages: 'Fathers of Migration' Narratives
• 5 Katsunuma Tomizō, Progenitor of a Migrant Network
• 6 Oikawa Jinzaburō, Patriarch of a Trans-Pacific Village
• 7 The Afterlives of Oikawa and the Suian Maru Story
• 8 Remembering to Forget: The Filipino-Japanese Community
• 9 Conclusion: Memorialization and Mobilization
• Chapter 4 Writing Domestic Regionalism: Seeking 'Authentic' Tōhoku in Interwar Japan
• 1 Rooting Modernity in Tradition: Seeking Authenticity to Combat Modern Alienation
• 2 "Where Are You From?": Linking People to the Land to Combat Alienation
• 3 Tōhoku and Tōno Monogatari: A Heterochronic Region Outside of Time
• 4 Tōhoku in the In-betweens: Region in International Waters and at Emigration Centers
• 5 The Postwar Satire of Inoue Hisashi: A Tōhoku Native Revisits Tōno Monogatari
• 6 Conclusion
• Chapter 5 "Leading Tōhoku Asia": Regional Identity within Imperial Japan
• 1 Love of Hometown as Love of Nation: Placing Empire through the Periodical Furusato
• 2 Patriotic Emigration to Greater Japan: An Extreme Makeover of the Countryside
• 3 Historicizing Manchurian Emigration: Hokkaidō and 'Father of Migration' Narratives
• 4 Divided Villages: Manufacturing Bridges to Greater East Asia
• 5 Tōhoku at War: Patriotic Expansionism as Regionalist Discourse
• 6 Conclusion: Coupling Patriotic Nationalism to a Mobile Tōhoku Identity
• Epilogue: Tōhoku-damashī: Viewing Regionalism after the Triple Disaster of 11 March 2011
• Bibliography
• Index.