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J4176.80 --- J1914.82 --- J4000.70 --- J4010 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism -- history --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- sects and schools -- new -- Ōmoto --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- ideology, socio-political and socio-economic movements

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Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko is the story of a self described base-born nobody who tried to change the course of Japanese history. Kurosawa Tokiko (1806u1890), a commoner from rural Mito domain, was a poet, teacher, oracle, and political activist. In 1859 she embraced the xenophobic loyalist faction (known for the motto revere the emperor, expel the barbarians) and traveled to Kyoto to denounce the shoguns policies before the emperor. She was arrested for slander, taken to Edos infamous Tenmach? prison, and sentenced to banishment. In her later years, having crossed the Tokugawa-Meiji divide, Tokiko became an elementary school teacher and experienced firsthand the modernizing policies of the new government. After her death she was honored with court rank for her devotion to the loyalist cause. Tokikos story reflects not only some of the key moments in Japans transition to the modern era, but also some of its lesser-known aspects, thereby providing us with a broader narrative of the late-Tokugawa crisis, the collapse of the shogunate, and the rise of the Meiji state. The peculiar combination of no-nonsense single- mindedness and visionary flights of imagination evinced in her numerous diaries and poetry collections nuances our understanding of activism and political consciousness among rural non-elites by blurring the lines between the rational and the irrational, focus and folly. Tokikos use of prognostication and her appeals to cosmic forces point to the creative paths women have constructed to take part in political debates as well as the resourcefulness required to preserve ones identity in the face of changing times. In the early twentieth century, Tokiko was reimagined in the popular press and her story rewritten to offset fears about female autonomy and boost local and national agendas. These distorted and romanticized renditions offer compelling examples of the politicization of the past and of the extent to which present anxieties shape historical memory. That Tokiko was unimportant and her loyalist mission a failure is irrelevant. What is significant is that through her life story we are able to discern the ordinary individual in the midst of history. By putting an extra in the spotlight, The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko offers a new script for the drama that unfolded on the stage of late-Tokugawa and early Meiji history. --Provided by publisher.

Women political activists --- Political activists --- Kurosawa, Tokiko, --- Japan --- History --- J3367 --- J3372 --- J4010 --- J4000.70 --- Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo period -- kaikoku and bakumatsu (1853-1867) --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Meiji period (1868-1912) -- Meiji restoration --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- ideology, socio-political and socio-economic movements --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Women political activists. --- 1600-1912. --- Japan.

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Protest movements --- Counterculture --- History --- Japan --- Social conditions --- Radicalism --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- J4010 --- J4000.90 --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- ideology, socio-political and socio-economic movements --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary

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The Japanese women's liberation movement uman ribu, which had its roots in the anti-American sentiment and anti-imperialism of the post-WWII period in Japan, used violence to get its message across. In this history of the movement, Shigematsu examines the contradictions, repressive tendencies, and power dynamics among feminist activists in Japan. She demonstrates how the dominant forms of feminist inquiry have minimized different forms of violence within and among feminist subjects, through the use of less visible forms of violence such as silencing, repression, and gatekeeping of who and what counts as a proper feminist subject. The book is illustrated with b&w historical photos from the early 1970s.

Feminism --- Women --- Social conditions --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- J4176.80 --- J4010 --- J4000.90 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism -- history --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- ideology, socio-political and socio-economic movements --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary

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Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine is the first book in English on the history of evolutionary theory in Japan. Bringing to life more than a century of ideas, G. Clinton Godart examines how and why Japanese intellectuals, religious thinkers of different faiths, philosophers, biologists, journalists, activists, and ideologues engaged with evolutionary theory and religion. How did Japanese religiously think about evolution? What were their main concerns? Did they reject evolution on religious grounds, or—as was more often the case—how did they combine evolutionary theory with their religious beliefs?Evolutionary theory was controversial and never passively accepted in Japan: It took a hundred years of appropriating, translating, thinking, and debating to reconsider the natural world and the relation between nature, science, and the sacred in light of evolutionary theory. Since its introduction in the nineteenth century, Japanese intellectuals—including Buddhist, Shinto, Confucian, and Christian thinkers—in their own ways and often with opposing agendas, struggled to formulate a meaningful worldview after Darwin. In the decades that followed, as the Japanese redefined their relation to nature and built a modern nation-state, the debates on evolutionary theory intensified and state ideologues grew increasingly hostile toward its principles. Throughout the religious reception of evolution was dominated by a long-held fear of the idea of nature and society as cold and materialist, governed by the mindless “struggle for survival.” This aversion endeavored many religious thinkers, philosophers, and biologists to find goodness and the divine within nature and evolution. It was this drive, argues Godart, that shaped much of Japan’s modern intellectual history and changed Japanese understandings of nature, society, and the sacred.Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine will contribute significantly to two of the most debated topics in the history of evolutionary theory: religion and the political legacy of evolution. It will, therefore, appeal to the broad audience interested in Darwin studies as well as students and scholars of Japanese intellectual history, religion, and philosophy.

Evolution (Biology) --- Social Darwinism --- Religious aspects. --- History. --- J1700.70 --- J4000.70 --- J4010 --- J1008.70 --- Japan: Religion in general -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- ideology, socio-political and socio-economic movements --- Japan: Philosophy -- history -- Kindai (1850s-1945), Bakumatsu, Meiji and Taishō --- Darwinisme social --- Evolution (Biology). --- Social Darwinism. --- History --- Japan.