Tanuma Okitsugu (1719-1788)
Author: John Whitney Hall
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780674284807
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Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan
Author: Mark Ravina
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0804763860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining local politics in three Japanese domains (Yonezawa, Tokushima, and Hirosaki), this book shows how warlords (daimyo) and their samurai adapted the theory and practice of warrior rule to the peacetime challenges of demographic change and rapid economic growth in the mid-Tokugawa period. The author has a dual purpose. The first is to examine the impact of shogunate/domain relations on warlord legitimacy. Although the shogunate had supreme power in foreign and military affairs, it left much of civil law in the hands of warlords. In this civil realm, Japan resembled a federal union (or "compound state"), with the warlords as semi-independent sovereigns, rather than a unified kingdom with the shogunate as sovereign. The warlords were thus both vassals of the shogun and independent lords. In the process of his analysis, the author puts forward a new theory of warlord legitimacy in order to explain the persistence of their autonomy in civil affairs. The second purpose is to examine the quantitative dimension of warlord rule. Daimyo, the author argues, struggled against both economic and demographic pressures. It is in these struggles that domains manifested most clearly their autonomy, developing distinctive regional solutions to the problems of protoindustrialization and peasant depopulation. In formulating strategies to promote and control economic growth and to increase the peasant population, domains drew heavily on their claims to semisovereign authority and developed policies that anticipated practices of the Meiji state.
The Cambridge History of Japan
Author: Marius B. Jansen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-07-28
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9780521223560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume covers the end of feudal society and the shogunate in Japan, and the growing power of the emperor.
Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan
Author: Laura Moretti
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-02-06
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 9004691200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two hundred years. These booklets were called kusazōshi (“grass books”). Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan is the first English-language publication of its kind. It enables anyone new to kusazōshi to gain comprehensive knowledge of the field. For the specialist, our edited volume marks a turning point in scholarship, uncovering fresh research avenues. While exploring the powerful effects of the visual-verbal imagination, this collection opens up bold new vistas on the act of reading and advances provocations around comics and manga. Contributors are: Jaqueline Berndt, Joseph Bills, Michael Emmerich, Adam L. Kern, Fumiko Kobayashi, Frederick Feilden, Laura Moretti, Matsubara Noriko, Satō Satoru, Satō Yukiko, Satoko Shimazaki, Takagi Gen, Tanahashi Masahiro, Ellis Tinios, Tsuda Mayumi and, Glynne Walley.
Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan
Author: John Whitney Hall
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-03-08
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1400868955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. The Tokugawa Period has long been seen as one of Eastern feudalism, awaiting the breakthrough that came with the Meiji enlightenment and the opening of Japan to the West. The general thrust of these papers is to show that in many institutional aspects Japan was far from backward before the Meiji Period, and that many of the preconditions of modernization were present and developing much earlier than has generally been believed. This collection will be particularly valuable to students and scholars of comparative and Japanese modernization. Originally published in 1968. 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.
The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu
Author: Conrad D. Totman
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1980-01-01
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780824806149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaths to Asian Medical Knowledge
Author: Charles Leslie
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1992-06-05
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780520073180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"From the perspectives of history and cultural anthropology, the authors consider problems of knowledge in Chinese medicine, the Hindu-Buddhist traditions of South Asian medicine, and the Greco-Arabic traditions of Islamic medicine.".
Justice and International Law in Meiji Japan
Author: Giorgio Fabio Colombo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-02-10
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 100083476X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book carries out a comprehensive analysis of the María Luz incident, a truly significant episode in Japanese and world history, from a legal perspective. In July 1872, the María Luz, a barque flying the Peruvian flag, carried Chinese indentured servants from Macau to Peru. After the ship stopped for repairs in Kanagawa Bay, a number of legal issues arose that were destined to change the perception and use of the law in Japan forever. The case had a tremendous impact on the collective imagination, both Japanese and international: it is one of the first occurrences in which an Asian country decided to resist the pressure of a Western nation, and responded using the most refined tools of domestic and international law. Moreover, the final outcome of the case (arbitration in front of the Czar of Russia) marks the debut of Japan on the stage of international arbitration. While historians have written widely on the subject, the legal importance of this event has been relatively neglected. This book uses the case to explore the technical legal issues Japan was facing in its transition from pre-modernity to modernity. These include unequal treaties, extraterritoriality clauses, the need to establish an updated judicial system, and a delicate balance between asserting sovereignty and resorting to diplomacy in solving disputes involving foreigners. Based on original documents, this book is an invaluable resource for researchers and academics in the fields of legal history, dispute resolution, international law, Japanese history and Asian studies.
The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States
Author: Helen Hardacre
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-07-17
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9004644865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of twelve essays with useful bibliographies, in the fields of history, art, religion, literature, anthropology, political science, and law, documents the history of United States scholarship on Japan since 1945.
The Postwar Developments of Japanese Studies in the United States
Author: Helen Hardacre
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9789004109810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of twelve essays with useful bibliographies, in the fields of history, art, religion, literature, anthropology, political science, and law, documents the history of United States scholarship on Japan since 1945.
