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J2284.70 --- J3372.80 --- Statesmen --- -Public officers --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, meiji, taishō --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Meiji period (1867-1912) -- revolts, rebellion and opposition --- Biogrpahy --- Saigo, Takamori --- Biography --- Saigo, Takamori, --- Saigō, Nanshū, --- Xixiang, Lungsheng, --- 西鄉隆盛, --- Japan --- Saigo, Takamori, - 1828-1877. --- Statesmen - Japan - Biography. --- Saigō, Takamori

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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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"This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of approaches and interpretations of the Restoration that showcase the strengths of the most recent interpretative trends in history writing on Japan while simultaneously offering new research pathways. On a scale probably never before seen in the study of the Restoration outside Japan, the short chapters in this volume reveal unique aspects of the this transformative event and process not previously explored in previous research. They do this in three core ways: through selecting and deploying different time frames in their historical analysis; by creative experimentation with different spatial units through which to ascertain historical experience; and by innovative selection of unique and highly original topics for analysis. The volume offers students and teachers of Japanese history, modern history, and East Asian studies an important resource for coming to grips with the multifaceted nature of Japan's nineteenth century transformation. The volume will also have broader appeal to scholars working in fields such as early modern/modern world history, global history, Asian modernities, gender studies, economic history, and postcolonial studies"--

HISTORY / Asia / Japan --- HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century --- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century --- Japan --- History --- Historiography. --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Historiography --- J3000 --- J3372 --- J3367 --- J4000.70 --- Japan: History -- historiography, theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Meiji period (1868-1912) -- Meiji restoration --- Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo period -- kaikoku and bakumatsu (1853-1867) --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō

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J3372 --- J4000.70 --- J4200 --- S35/0510 --- S35/0800 --- #SML: Joseph Spae --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Meiji period (1868-1912) -- Meiji restoration --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social classes and groups, social systems and discrimination --- Japan--History: modern (after Meiji 1868) (Russo-Japanese war under 22/0505) --- Japan--Social conditions and ethnology (incl. overseas Japanese) --- J3370 --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern period (1868 [1850s]- ) --- Japan --- History --- Social conditions. --- J4203 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- social classes and groups -- outcasts, burakumin, hinin

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"In Curse on This Country, Danny Orbach explains the culture of rebellion in the Japanese armed forces. It was a culture created by a series of seemingly innocent decisions, each reasonable in its own right, which led to a gradual weakening of Japanese government control over its army and navy. The consequences were dire, as the armed forces dragged the government into more and more of China across the 1930s--a culture of rebellion that made the Pacific War possible. Orbach argues that brazen defiance, rather than blind obedience, was the motive force of modern Japanese history. Curse on This Country follows a series of dramatic events: assassinations in the dark corners of Tokyo, the famous rebellion of Saigō Takamori, the "accidental" invasion of Taiwan, the Japanese ambassador's plot to murder the queen of Korea, and the military-political crisis in which the Japanese prime minister "changed colors." Finally, through the sinister plots of the clandestine Cherry Blossom Society, we follow the deterioration of Japan into chaos, fascism, and world war."--Publisher's description.

Sociology, Military --- Military discipline --- Insubordination --- Military offenses --- Naval offenses --- Armies --- Discipline, Military --- Disciplinary power --- Discipline --- Military sociology --- Armed Forces --- Peace --- War --- War and society --- History. --- Japan --- History, Military --- J3372.80 --- J3375 --- J3382.50 --- J4880.70 --- J4480 --- History --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Meiji period (1867-1912) -- revolts, rebellion and opposition --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Taishō period (1912-1926) --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- early Shōwa period (1920-1945) -- (patriotic) revolts --- Japan: Defense and military -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Economy and industry -- communication industries -- Gendai, modern (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Economy and industry -- communication industries -- general and history