The Birth Of Japanese Historiography

Author : John R. Bentley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000295696

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The Birth of Japanese Historiography by John R. Bentley Pdf

As the first book in English on the origins of Japanese historiography, using both archaeological and textual data, this book examines the connection between ancient Japan and the Korean kingdom of Paekche and how tutors from the kingdom of Paekche helped to lay the foundation for a literate culture in Japan. Illustrating how tutors from the kingdom of Paekche taught Chinese writing to the Japanese court through the prism of this highly civilized culture, the book goes on to argue that Paekche tutors guided the early Japanese court through writing, recording family history, and ultimately an early history of the ruling family. As the Japanese began to create their own history, they relied on Paekche histories as a model. Triangulating textual data from Kojiki, Nihon shoki, and Sendai kuji hongi, the author here demonstrates that various aspects of early king genealogies and later events were manipulated. Offering new theories about the Japanese ruling family, it is posited that Emperor Jitō had her committee put Jingū in power, and Suiko on the throne in place of original male rulers to enhance images of strong, female rulers, as she envisioned herself. The Birth of Japanese Historiography will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Japanese history, historiography, and linguistics.

Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004244191

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Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E. by Joshua A. Fogel Pdf

In the year 57 C.E., the court of Later Han dynasty presented a gold seal to an emissary from somewhere in what is now Japan. The seal soon vanished from history, only to be unearthed in 1784 in Japan. In the subsequent two-plus centuries, nearly 400 books and articles (mostly by Japanese) have addressed every conceivable issue surrounding this small object of gold. Joshua Fogel places the conferment of the seal in inter-Asian diplomacy of the first century and then traces four waves of historical analysis that the seal has undergone since its discovery, as the standards of historical judgment have changed over these years and the investment in the seal’s meaning have changed accordingly.

Author : Janet Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317870852

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The Emergence of Modern Japan by Janet Hunter Pdf

The main emphasis of this book is upon political, social and economic developments, as conditioned by Japan's interaction with the outside world, the advance of industrialisation and the emergence of the Japanese nation state. Unlike previous textbooks on the history of modern Japan, Janet Hunter's book adopts a thematic approach which makes the period much more accessible for readers who wish to pursue their particular interests throughout the period. Moreover, it will also establish a greater awareness of the cultural and institutional continuities which are crucial to any proper understanding of modern Japan.

Author : Harry Wray,Hilary Conroy
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1983-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824808398

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Japan Examined by Harry Wray,Hilary Conroy Pdf

A collection of 46 essays that trace the course of democracy in Japan from 1868 to 1952.

Author : Sven Saaler,Christopher W. A. Szpilman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317599036

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Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History by Sven Saaler,Christopher W. A. Szpilman Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History is a concise overview of modern Japanese history from the middle of the nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. Written by a group of international historians, each an authority in his or her field, the book covers modern Japanese history in an accessible yet comprehensive manner. The subjects featured in the book range from the development of the political system and matters of international relations, to social and economic history and gender issues, to post-war discussions about modern Japan’s historical trajectory and its wartime past. Divided into thematic parts, the sections include: Nation, empire and borders Ideologies and the political system Economy and society Historical legacies and memory Each chapter outlines important historiographical debates and controversies, summarizes the latest developments in the field, and identifies research topics that have not yet received sufficient scholarly attention. As such, the book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese history, Asian history and Asian Studies.

Author : Taro Sakamoto
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0774803797

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The Six National Histories of Japan by Taro Sakamoto Pdf

The Six National Histories of Japan (Rikkokushi) was written in 1970 by one of Japan's foremost historical scholars. Sakamoto Taro. An authoritative study of Japan's first scholarly works and a modern classic, it is now translated into English for the first time. The Six National Histories chronicle the history of Japan from its origins in the 'Age of the Gods' to A.D. 887. Written in Classical Chinese, they were compiled in the imperial court during the eighth and ninth centuries by leading scholars and officials of the day. Until the late nineteenth-century each of the Six National Histories was accepted as an authoritative work containing the absolute truth about the past. They have therefore exerted a profound effect on Japanese thought for well over a millenium. In the twentieth-century, particularly since 1945 when state censorship ended, scholars have focused on the first of the Six National Histories, Nihon Shoki, rejecting its authenticity. In his book, Sakamoto interpreted modern scholarly findings, as well as presenting his own views, thus completing the modern re-evaluation of this controversial first work. The remaining five works form a subgroup. Sakamoto's study has been the only one to survey all of them, identifying common features and pointing out the special characteristics of each. John Brownlee's meticulous translation of Sakamoto's seminal work is supplemented by an informative introduction, notes, appendices, and an index. The translation makes available to English readers a valuable study of the Six National Histories which also provides insights into the methods of contemporary Japanese historians.

Author : John Whitney Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:10270988

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Japanese History by John Whitney Hall Pdf

Author : Hitomi Koyama
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351611923

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On the Persistence of the Japanese History Problem by Hitomi Koyama Pdf

In Japan, people often refer to August 15, 1945 as the end of "that war." But the duration of "that war" remains vague. At times, it refers to the fifteen years of war in the Asia-Pacific. At others, it refers to an imagination of the century long struggle between the East and the West that characterized much of the 19th century. This latter dramatization in particular reinforces longstanding Eurocentric and Orientalist discourses about historical development that presume the non-West lacks historical agency. Nearly 75 years since the nominal end of the war, Japan’s "history problem" – a term invoking the nation’s inability to come to terms with its imperial past – persists throughout Asia today. Going beyond well-worn clichés about the state’s use and abuse of discourses of historical modernity, Koyama shows how the inability to confront the debris of empire is tethered to the deferral of agency to a hegemonic order centered on the United States. The present is thus a moment one stitched between the disavowal of responsibility on the one hand, and the necessity of becoming a proper subject of history on the other. Behind this seeming impasse lay questions about how to imagine the state as the subject of history in a postcolonial moment – after grand narratives, after patriotism, and after triumphalism.

Author : Jeffrey P. Mass
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0804725926

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Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History by Jeffrey P. Mass Pdf

This collection of essays is built around a major but previously unstudied theme in Japanese history - the extent to which the exaggeration of antiquity has distorted historical understanding.

Author : Margaret Mehl
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 0333690885

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History and the State in Nineteenth-century Japan by Margaret Mehl Pdf

Mehl describes the rise of modern historical scholarship in the context of the nation state in nineteenth-century Japan. She focuses on the Historiographical Institute at the University of Tokyo, a research institute which was originally a government office. It was established to compile an official national history to legitimize the new imperial government, which replaced shogunal rule in 1868. Particular attention is given to the relationship between history and political ideology, German influence and the importance of history for national identity.

Author : Karl F. Friday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429979163

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Japan Emerging by Karl F. Friday Pdf

Japan Emerging provides a comprehensive survey of Japan from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Incorporating the latest scholarship and methodology, leading authorities writing specifically for this volume outline and explore the main developments in Japanese life through ancient, classical, medieval, and early modern periods. Instead of relying solely on lists of dates and prominent names, the authors focus on why and how Japanese political, social, economic, and intellectual life evolved. Each part begins with a timeline and a set of guiding questions and issues to help orient readers and enhance continuity. Engaging, thorough, and accessible, this is an essential text for all students and scholars of Japanese history.

Author : Yoshihiko Amino
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Japan
ISBN : 1929280718

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Rethinking Japanese History by Yoshihiko Amino Pdf

In this fascinating journey across centuries, Amino Yoshihiko, the premier historian of medieval Japan, invites us to rethink everything we thought we knew about Japanese history. From reconsidering the roles of outcastes and outlaws, to the provenance of "Japan (Nihon)," to the very meaning of writing, Amino offers a powerful critique of the conventional wisdom about Japan's past. Instead of depicting Japan as an isolated island country full of immobile peasants dominated by swaggering warriors and an unbroken line of sacred emperors, he unveils a dynamic history of an archipelago driven by the competition to control trade and movement, in which warlords and aristocrats share the main stage with pirates, courtesans, beggars, and dancing monks. Written for a nonspecialist audience and standing on a foundation of fifty years of research in a vast and eclectic range of primary sources, Rethinking Japanese History introduces the English reader to one of Japan's most original and provocative historians. Since the 1970s, Amino has inspired readers with his view of Japanese history "from the sea," in which the power politics of the samurai class were contrasted with the countervailing authorities of religious institutions, artisanal groups, and "lords of the sea" who enabled the movement of people and goods from the Asian continent to every harbor and village of Japan. In his portraits of an archaic and medieval past permeated with "places of freedom" and a grand struggle between ideologies of trade and agriculture, Amino challenged his contemporaries to reconsider not only their understanding of Japan's past, but also its present and future. Rethinking Japanese History calls on us to contemplate seriously the meaning of the deep past in our present day. By challenging the reader to reexamine our presumptions of the past, Amino offers us a chance to reimagine the present.

Author : Louis M. Cullen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0511076975

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A History of Japan, 1582-1941 by Louis M. Cullen Pdf

Offering a distinctive overview of the pressures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan, Louis Cullen rejects the traditional boundaries of Japanese historiography and combines economic, social, and political approaches to create a powerful analysis. Cullen reviews the Japanese experience of expansion, social transition, industrial growth, economic crisis and war, to present an island nation that is a growing industrial power with little perception of its worldwide context.

Author : Yushi Ito
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004213340

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Yamaji Aizan and His Time by Yushi Ito Pdf

This first in-depth study in English of one of Japan’s popular historians and a well-known journalist of the Meiji and Taish periods challenges the conventional view that Yamaji Aizan was essentially a ‘nationalist’ at heart eager to see Japan expand into Asia and a supporter of the colonization of Korea.

Author : William M. Tsutsui
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405193399

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A Companion to Japanese History by William M. Tsutsui Pdf

A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies