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Japan's Private Spheres : Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004450158
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930LOC classification:
  • DS821 .B743 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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