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Drawing on the papers presented at CEEJA's first international conference addressing the long-neglected field relating to the generation, dissemination and application of technical knowledge in Japan from the Edo to the Meiji periods, this volume provides a valuable selection of new research on the subject, from Hashimoto Takehiko's detailed examination of Tanaka Hisashige's 'Myriad Year Clock', Regine Mathias's paper on mining and smelting, and Erich Pauer's overview of Japanese technical books in the pre-modern era, to Suzuki Jun's detailed account of boiler-making in late nineteenth-century Japan.

Technology --- History --- Technology. --- Japan. --- J7000.60 --- Japan: Science and technology -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- History. --- Edo period. --- Meiji period. --- boiler making. --- history of technical knowledge. --- mining and smelting.

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The first monograph published in English on Ihara Saikaku’s fiction, David J. Gundry’s lucid, compelling study examines the tension reflected in key works by Edo-period Japan’s leading writer of ‘floating world’ literature between the official societal hierarchy dictated by the Tokugawa shogunate’s hereditary status-group system and the era’s de facto, fluid, wealth-based social hierarchy. The book’s nuanced, theoretically engaged explorations of Saikaku’s narratives’ uses of irony and parody demonstrate how these often function to undermine their own narrators' intermittent moralizing. Gundry also analyzes these texts’ depiction of the fleeting pleasures of love, sex, wealth and consumerism as Buddhistic object lessons in the illusory nature of phenomenal reality, the mastery of which leads to a sort of enlightenment.

Parody --- Irony in literature --- J5926 --- Comic literature --- Literature, Comic --- Travesty --- Satire --- Burlesque (Literature) --- Caricature --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose -- Edo period, Kinsei (1600-1867) --- Ihara, Saikaku, --- Hirayama, Tōgo, --- Ibara, Saikaku, --- Ichidaiotoko Yonosuke, --- Ihara, Shōjuken, --- Jingyuan, Xihe, --- Ихара, Сайкаку, --- 井原西鶴, --- 井原西鹤, --- Saikaku, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- E-books --- Parody. --- Irony in literature. --- Hirayama, Tōgo --- Ibara, Saikaku --- Ichidaiotoko Yonosuke --- Ihara, Shōjuken --- Jingyuan, Xihe --- Saikaku --- Ихара, Сайкаку --- 井原西鶴 --- 井原西鹤

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This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the “tragic” combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by contemporary critical discourse (especially the works by such thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Fredric Jameson and Raymond Williams), the author challenges both exotic and postmodern representation of Japanese culture as “the other” of the West. By examining the social backgrounds of artists’ endeavors to create new literary forms, the author unveils a rich tradition of tragic literature that, unlike the dominant local tradition of naturalism, has registered the unbridgeable gap between universal ideals and social values at a particular historical moment.

Tragic, The, in literature. --- Aristotle. --- Buddhism. --- Christianity. --- Daiichiji sengo-ha. --- Dainiji sengo-ha. --- Daisanji sengo-ha. --- Edo period. --- Hiroshima. --- Japanese literature. --- Kamakura. --- Marxism. --- Meiji period. --- Muromachi. --- Nagasaki. --- Oriental. --- Qin dinasty. --- Shintoism. --- Taisho. --- Taoism. --- Tokugawa period. --- World War II. --- aesthetics. --- allegory. --- ambiguity. --- androgyny. --- anthropology. --- anti-pastoral. --- atomic bomb. --- bunka. --- capitalism. --- catharsis. --- classical Japanese theater. --- colonialism. --- comparative literature. --- critical theory. --- exoticism. --- feminism. --- haiku. --- imperialism. --- industrialization. --- mimesis. --- modernism. --- multiculturalism. --- naturalism. --- othering. --- phenomenology. --- poetry. --- post-structuralism. --- postmodernism. --- postwar. --- realism. --- socialism. --- tragedy. --- trauma. --- universalism.

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Kendo is the first in-depth historical, cultural, and political account in English of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship, from its beginnings in military training and arcane medieval schools to its widespread practice as a global sport today. Alexander Bennett shows how kendo evolved through a recurring process of "inventing tradition," which served the changing ideologies and needs of Japanese warriors and governments over the course of history. Kendo follows the development of Japanese swordsmanship from the aristocratic-aesthetic pretensions of medieval warriors in the Muromachi period, to the samurai elitism of the Edo regime, and then to the nostalgic patriotism of the Meiji state. Kendo was later influenced in the 1930's and 1940's by ultranationalist militarists and ultimately by the postwar government, which sought a gentler form of nationalism to rekindle appreciation of traditional culture among Japan's youth and to garner international prestige as an instrument of "soft power." Today kendo is becoming increasingly popular internationally. But even as new organizations and clubs form around the world, cultural exclusiveness continues to play a role in kendo's ongoing evolution, as the sport remains closely linked to Japan's sense of collective identity.

Kendo. --- Swordplay --- J6976 --- Japanese fencing --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- martial arts, fighting sports -- kendō, iaidō, bōjutsu, fencing. --- Fencing --- Hand-to-hand fighting, Oriental --- Stick fighting --- Swordplay. --- Japan. --- Kendo --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- martial arts, fighting sports -- kendō, iaidō, bōjutsu, fencing --- bamboo. --- bogu. --- collective identity. --- combat. --- cultural studies. --- edo period. --- fighting styles. --- fights. --- global sport. --- history of kendo. --- history. --- inventing tradition. --- japan. --- japanese history. --- japanese martial arts. --- japanese studies. --- japanese. --- kendo. --- kenjutsu. --- martial arts. --- medieval schools. --- meiji period. --- military training. --- muromachi period. --- nationalism. --- physical activity. --- practice of honor. --- protective armor. --- samurai. --- shinai. --- soft power. --- sports. --- swordsmanship. --- traditional culture. --- war. --- warriors.

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This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes-including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias-to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial publishers, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study shows how spatial and geographical knowledge confined to elites in early Japan became more generalized, flexible, and widespread in the Tokugawa period. In the broadest sense, her book grasps the elusive processes through which people came to name, to know, and to interpret their worlds in narrative and visual forms.

Ethnopsychology --- National characteristics, Japanese. --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Japanese national characteristics --- Japan --- Civilization --- Japan - Civilization - 1600-1868. --- cartography. --- commercial publishers. --- early modern japan. --- east asia. --- encyclopedia. --- geographical knowledge. --- geography. --- gesaku. --- government power. --- japan. --- japanese history. --- japanese studies. --- mapmaking. --- maps. --- modern japan. --- national identity. --- nonfiction. --- poetry. --- popular culture. --- popular fiction. --- power of maps. --- realm. --- representation of space. --- samurai. --- satire comics. --- satire. --- sense of space. --- shogunal. --- shogunate. --- social commentary. --- space and place. --- space theory. --- tokugawa edo period. --- tokugawa. --- travel writing. --- travel. --- travelogue.