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Japan was ruled by warriors for the better part of a millenium. From the twelfth to the nineteenth century its political history was dominated by the struggle of competing leagues of fighting men. This paperback volume, comprised of chapters taken from volumes 3 and 4 of The Cambridge History of Japan, traces the institutional development of warrior rule and dominance. Fourteenth-century warfare weakened the aristocratic and clerical control over provincial estates, and the power of military governors grew steadily. By the eighteenth century, however, warrior rule had come full circle. Centuries of peace brought a transformation and bureaucratization of the samurai class. Although samurai malcontents resisted the Meiji Restoration, many of the Meiji government's leaders were former samurai, and warrior values remained central to the ethical code of modern Japan.

Samurai --- Feudalism --- History. --- Japan --- Politics and government --- 1600-1868 --- 1185-1600 --- Japan - Politics and government - 1185-1600. --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Shogunate

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Tsunayoshi (1646-1709), the fifth Tokugawa shogun, is one of the most notorious figures in Japanese history. Viewed by many as a tyrant, his policies were deemed eccentric, extreme, and unorthodox. His Laws of Compassion, which made the maltreatment of dogs an offense punishable by death, earned him the nickname Dog Shogun, by which he is still popularly known today. However, Tsunayoshi's rule coincides with the famed Genroku era, a period of unprecedented cultural growth and prosperity that Japan would not experience again until the mid-twentieth century. It was under Tsunayoshi that for the first time in Japanese history considerable numbers of ordinary townspeople were in a financial position to acquire an education and enjoy many of the amusements previously reserved for the ruling elite. Based on a masterful re-examination of primary sources, this exciting new work by a senior scholar of the Tokugawa period maintains that Tsunayoshi's notoriety stems largely from the work of samurai historians and officials who saw their privileges challenged by a ruler sympathetic to commoners. Beatrice Bodart-Bailey's insightful analysis of Tsunayoshi's background sheds new light on his personality and the policies associated with his shogunate. The Dog Shogun is a thoroughly revisionist work of Japanese political history that touches on many social, intellectual, and economic developments as well. As such it promises to become a standard text on late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth-century Japan.

J3361 --- J2284.60 --- S35/0580 --- Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo period -- establishment of the shogunate, 17th century general --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan--Biographies --- Shoguns --- Tokugawa, Tsunayoshi, --- Japan --- Politics and government --- 徳川家光, --- 徳川綱吉, --- 德川綱吉, --- Tokugawa, Tsunayoshi --- Hotta, Masatoshi --- Ogyū, Sorai

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Kären Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. As developed here, that term designates not the quick coup d'état of 1868 but a three-centuries-long project of rehabilitating an ancient map for modern purposes. Drawing on a wide range of geographical documents from Shinano (present-day Nagano Prefecture), Wigen argues that both the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868) and the reformers of the Meiji era (1868-1912) recruited the classical map to serve the cause of administrative reform. Nor were they alone; provincial men of letters played an equally critical role in bringing imperial geography back to life in the countryside. To substantiate these claims, Wigen traces the continuing career of the classical court's most important unit of governance-the province-in central Honshu.

Cartography --- History. --- Nagano-ken (Japan) --- Japan --- Historical geography. --- Administrative and political divisions --- Maps --- administrative reform. --- asia scholars. --- asian studies. --- cartographers. --- cartography. --- classical maps. --- coup detat. --- early modern japan. --- geographical documents. --- government impact. --- historical geography. --- historical. --- honshu. --- imperial geography. --- ishin. --- japan. --- japanese countryside. --- japanese geography. --- japanese history. --- map rehabilitation. --- maps. --- meiji era. --- nagano prefecture. --- political history. --- regional cartography. --- restoration. --- shinano. --- tokugawa shogunate.

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J3361 --- J4000.60 --- J3439 --- J4202.10 --- Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo period -- establishment of the shogunate, 17th century general --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Chūbu -- Aichi prefecture (Mikawa, Owari) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- social classes and groups -- samurai, bushi --- Asahi, Shigeaki, --- Diaries. --- Aichi-ken (Japan) --- Social life and customs. --- Asahi, Bunzaemon, --- 朝日重章, --- Aichi, Japan --- Aichi Prefecture (Japan) --- 愛知県 (Japan)

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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.