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In The Modern History of Japan, Andrew Gordon paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. He takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the late nineteenth century; the adoption of Western hairstyles, clothing, and military organization; and the nation's first experiments with mass democracy after World War I. Gordon offers the finest synthesis to date of Japan's passage through militarism, World War II, the American occupation, and the subsequent economic rollercoaster. But the true ingenuity and value of Gordon's approach lies in his close attention to the non-elite layers of society. Here students will see the influence of outside ideas, products, and culture on home life, labor unions, political parties, gender relations, and popular entertainment. The book examines Japan's struggles to define the meaning of its modernization, from villages and urban neighborhoods, to factory floors and middle managers' offices, to the imperial court. Most importantly, it illuminates the interconnectedness of Japanese developments with world history, demonstrating how Japan's historical passage represents a variation of a process experienced by many nations, and shows how the Japanese narrative forms one part of the interwoven fabric of modern history. With a sustained focus on setting modern Japan in a comparative and global context, The Modern History of Japan is ideal for undergraduate courses in modern Japanese history, Japanese politics, Japanese society, or Japanese culture.

Japan --- History --- J3360 --- J3370 --- Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern period (1868 [1850s]- ) --- 1868-.... --- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868

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This is a history of intellectual and religious developments in Japan during the Tokugawa period, covering the years 1582-1860. It begins with an explanation of the fate of Christianity, and proceeds to cover the changing nature of the relationship between Buddhism and secular authority, new developments in Shinto, and the growth of 'Japanese studies'. The main emphasis, however, is on the process by which Neo-Confucianism captured the imagination of the intellectual class and informed debate throughout the period. This process was expressed in terms of a never-ending search for the Way, a mode and pattern of existence that could provide not only order for society at large, but self-fulfilment for the individual. The narrative traces how ideas and attitudes changed through time, and is based on the premise that the Tokugawa period is important in and of itself, not merely as a backdrop to the Meiji Restoration of 1868.

Philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- History --- Japan --- Religion --- J1700.60 --- J1008.60 --- Japan: Religion in general -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Philosophy -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867)

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"With over 60 contributions, The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope. Covering a variety of features of the Tokugawa world including the physical landscape, economy, art and literature, religion and thought, and education and science, this volume is essential reading for all students and scholars of early modern Japan"--

Japan --- History --- Social life and customs --- J4000.60 --- J3360 --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867)

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Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and women of all social strata became involved in acquiring knowledge and skills during the Tokugawa period. It offers an overview of the communication media and tools that teachers, booksellers, and authors elaborated to make such knowledge more accessible to a large audience. Schools, public lectures, private academies or hand-copied or printed manuals devoted to a great variety of topics, from epistolary etiquette or personal ethics to calculation, divination or painting, are here invoked to illustrate the vitality of Tokugawa Japan’s ‘knowledge market’, and to show how popular learning relied on three types of activities: listening, copying and reading. With contributions by: W.J. Boot, Matthias Hayek, Annick Horiuchi, Michael Kinski, Koizumi Yoshinaga, Peter Kornicki, Machi Senjūrō, Christophe Marquet, Markus Rüttermann, Tsujimoto Masashi, and Wakao Masaki.

J4900.60 --- Japan: Education -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Education --- History. --- Japan --- Intellectual life.

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Tokugawa Japan was a time of immense cultural flowering ... This work provides a comprehensive review of two and a half centuries of peace - what the author calls the 'Pax Tokugawana' - and the expansion of learning and culture during those years. --

Japan --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- J4000.60 --- J4150.60 --- J5500.60 --- J7000.60 --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Science and technology -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Civilization. --- Intellectual life. --- 1600-1868 --- Japan.