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From Country to Nation : Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan / Gideon Fujiwara.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (292 p.) : 24 b&w halftones, 3 maps, 3 color platesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501753930
  • 9781501753954
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 181/.12 23
LOC classification:
  • B5243.K6 F85 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Explanatory Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Seeing the “Country” of Tsugaru in Northeastern Japan -- 2. Visions of Japan and Other “Countries” in the World -- 3. Hirata Kokugaku and the National Network -- 4. The Academy and the Tsugaru Disciples -- 5. Locating Tsugaru within Sacred Japan -- 6. Sacred Mountain, Landscape, and Afterlife -- 7. Supporting the Restoration in War and Ritual -- 8. Modern Society and the Tsugaru Disciples -- Conclusion: Ethnography, Kokugaku , and Community in Modern Japan -- Appendix -- Selected List of Characters -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: From Country to Nation tracks the emergence of the modern Japanese nation in the nineteenth century through the history of some of its local aspirants. It explores how kokugaku (Japan studies) scholars envisioned their place within Japan and the globe, while living in a castle town and domain far north of the political capital. Gideon Fujiwara follows the story of Hirao Rosen and fellow scholars in the northeastern domain of Tsugaru. On discovering a newly "opened" Japan facing the dominant Western powers and a defeated Qing China, Rosen and other Tsugaru intellectuals embraced kokugaku to secure a place for their local "country" within the broader nation, and to reorient their native Tsugaru within the spiritual landscape of an Imperial Japan protected by the gods. While Rosen and his fellows celebrated the rise of Imperial Japan, their resistance to the Western influence and modernity embraced by the Meiji state ultimately resulted in their own disorientation and estrangement. By analyzing their writings—treatises, travelogues, letters, poetry, liturgies, and diaries—alongside their artwork, Fujiwara reveals how this socially diverse group of scholars experienced the Meiji Restoration from the peripheries. Using compelling firsthand accounts, Fujiwara tells the story of the rise of modern Japan, from the perspective of local intellectuals who envisioned their local "country" within a nation that emerged as an empire of the modern world.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Explanatory Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Seeing the “Country” of Tsugaru in Northeastern Japan -- 2. Visions of Japan and Other “Countries” in the World -- 3. Hirata Kokugaku and the National Network -- 4. The Academy and the Tsugaru Disciples -- 5. Locating Tsugaru within Sacred Japan -- 6. Sacred Mountain, Landscape, and Afterlife -- 7. Supporting the Restoration in War and Ritual -- 8. Modern Society and the Tsugaru Disciples -- Conclusion: Ethnography, Kokugaku , and Community in Modern Japan -- Appendix -- Selected List of Characters -- Bibliography -- Index

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From Country to Nation tracks the emergence of the modern Japanese nation in the nineteenth century through the history of some of its local aspirants. It explores how kokugaku (Japan studies) scholars envisioned their place within Japan and the globe, while living in a castle town and domain far north of the political capital. Gideon Fujiwara follows the story of Hirao Rosen and fellow scholars in the northeastern domain of Tsugaru. On discovering a newly "opened" Japan facing the dominant Western powers and a defeated Qing China, Rosen and other Tsugaru intellectuals embraced kokugaku to secure a place for their local "country" within the broader nation, and to reorient their native Tsugaru within the spiritual landscape of an Imperial Japan protected by the gods. While Rosen and his fellows celebrated the rise of Imperial Japan, their resistance to the Western influence and modernity embraced by the Meiji state ultimately resulted in their own disorientation and estrangement. By analyzing their writings—treatises, travelogues, letters, poetry, liturgies, and diaries—alongside their artwork, Fujiwara reveals how this socially diverse group of scholars experienced the Meiji Restoration from the peripheries. Using compelling firsthand accounts, Fujiwara tells the story of the rise of modern Japan, from the perspective of local intellectuals who envisioned their local "country" within a nation that emerged as an empire of the modern world.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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