Japan's Private Spheres : Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930.
Puck Brecher, William.
Japan's Private Spheres : Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (384 pages) - The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives Series ; v.13 . - The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives Series .
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- Keywords (キーワード) -- Prologue -- Part 1 Contextualizing the Private Sphere in Japanese History -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Private "Problem" -- 1 Contexts of Privacy in Modernizing Japan -- 2 Challenges and Methodologies -- Chapter 2 Public and Private in Pre-Meiji Thought and Society -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Public and Private in the Japanese Context -- 3 Public and Private in the Medieval Period -- 4 Public and Private in the Edo Period -- Chapter 3 The Private Self and the Meiji-Taisho State -- 1 The Individual's Relationship to the State -- 2 Prescribed Private Spheres: Religion, the Home, and Leisure -- 3 Historiography on Modern Japan's Private Spheres -- Part 2 The Autonomous Self in the Edo Period (1600-1868) -- Chapter 4 Peripheries as Private Spheres -- 1 Everything in Its Place: City, Suburb, Countryside -- 2 Kōetsumura -- 3 Itami -- 3.1 Itami Saké -- 3.2 The Itami Salon -- 4 Negishi -- 4.1 Negishi as a Homegrown Living Space -- 4.2 Resignation and Reclusion -- Chapter 5 Boyhood as an Autonomous Sphere -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Practical Childrearing -- 3 Diaries -- 4 Role Models and the Moral Authority of the Private -- Chapter 6 "Publicizing" the Private: Self-Interrogation and Self-Indulgence in the Arts -- 1 Human Difference in Early Modern Thought -- 2 The Self-Interrogation of Hakuin (1685-1768) and Kinkoku (1761-1832) -- 3 Self and Self-Portraiture -- 4 Master Depravity and the Self as Spectacle -- Part 3 Public and Private Selves in Meiji and Taisho (1868-1926) -- Chapter 7 The Deviant in Meiji Society: Autonomy, Individuality, and Public Power -- 1 Meiji's New Normal -- 2 Loser Literature -- 3 Anguished Art -- 4 Ideology and Rupture: Eccentricity and Its Place in Meiji's Cultural Field. Chapter 8 The Private Individual in Early Meiji Education (1872-1890s) -- 1 The Individual in Early Meiji Education -- 2 On the Practice of Keeping Individuality Charts -- 3 Early Student Charts in the United States -- 4 Individuality as Control -- Chapter 9 Education and Public Individuality (1890s-1927) -- 1 Kosei in Public Education -- 2 Changes in Student Evaluations -- 3 Kosei as "Public Individuality" -- Part 4 The Nationalization of Private Leisure (1868-1930s) -- Chapter 10 Vacationing and Moral Authority -- 1 School Summer Vacations -- 2 Moral Authority and Vacationing for Adults -- 3 Ambivalence and Contestation -- Chapter 11 Nationalizing the Body: Physical Exercise as a Public Ethic -- 1 "Civilizing" the Physical Body -- 2 Western Athletics -- 3 Public Fitness as Statecraft (1920s~) -- Chapter 12 Conclusion: Can Modern Japan's Private Spheres Be Moral? -- 1 Reconciliations of Self and State -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 explores the genesis and historical development of autonomy and its evolving relationship with public authority in early modern and modern Japan.
9789004450158
Electronic books.
DS821 .B743 2021
Japan's Private Spheres : Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (384 pages) - The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives Series ; v.13 . - The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives Series .
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- Keywords (キーワード) -- Prologue -- Part 1 Contextualizing the Private Sphere in Japanese History -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Private "Problem" -- 1 Contexts of Privacy in Modernizing Japan -- 2 Challenges and Methodologies -- Chapter 2 Public and Private in Pre-Meiji Thought and Society -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Public and Private in the Japanese Context -- 3 Public and Private in the Medieval Period -- 4 Public and Private in the Edo Period -- Chapter 3 The Private Self and the Meiji-Taisho State -- 1 The Individual's Relationship to the State -- 2 Prescribed Private Spheres: Religion, the Home, and Leisure -- 3 Historiography on Modern Japan's Private Spheres -- Part 2 The Autonomous Self in the Edo Period (1600-1868) -- Chapter 4 Peripheries as Private Spheres -- 1 Everything in Its Place: City, Suburb, Countryside -- 2 Kōetsumura -- 3 Itami -- 3.1 Itami Saké -- 3.2 The Itami Salon -- 4 Negishi -- 4.1 Negishi as a Homegrown Living Space -- 4.2 Resignation and Reclusion -- Chapter 5 Boyhood as an Autonomous Sphere -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Practical Childrearing -- 3 Diaries -- 4 Role Models and the Moral Authority of the Private -- Chapter 6 "Publicizing" the Private: Self-Interrogation and Self-Indulgence in the Arts -- 1 Human Difference in Early Modern Thought -- 2 The Self-Interrogation of Hakuin (1685-1768) and Kinkoku (1761-1832) -- 3 Self and Self-Portraiture -- 4 Master Depravity and the Self as Spectacle -- Part 3 Public and Private Selves in Meiji and Taisho (1868-1926) -- Chapter 7 The Deviant in Meiji Society: Autonomy, Individuality, and Public Power -- 1 Meiji's New Normal -- 2 Loser Literature -- 3 Anguished Art -- 4 Ideology and Rupture: Eccentricity and Its Place in Meiji's Cultural Field. Chapter 8 The Private Individual in Early Meiji Education (1872-1890s) -- 1 The Individual in Early Meiji Education -- 2 On the Practice of Keeping Individuality Charts -- 3 Early Student Charts in the United States -- 4 Individuality as Control -- Chapter 9 Education and Public Individuality (1890s-1927) -- 1 Kosei in Public Education -- 2 Changes in Student Evaluations -- 3 Kosei as "Public Individuality" -- Part 4 The Nationalization of Private Leisure (1868-1930s) -- Chapter 10 Vacationing and Moral Authority -- 1 School Summer Vacations -- 2 Moral Authority and Vacationing for Adults -- 3 Ambivalence and Contestation -- Chapter 11 Nationalizing the Body: Physical Exercise as a Public Ethic -- 1 "Civilizing" the Physical Body -- 2 Western Athletics -- 3 Public Fitness as Statecraft (1920s~) -- Chapter 12 Conclusion: Can Modern Japan's Private Spheres Be Moral? -- 1 Reconciliations of Self and State -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 explores the genesis and historical development of autonomy and its evolving relationship with public authority in early modern and modern Japan.
9789004450158
Electronic books.
DS821 .B743 2021