Values, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (392 pages)
- Brill's Japanese Studies Library ; v.52 .
- Brill's Japanese Studies Library .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Values, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan -- Part 1 Values in Practice -- Chapter 2 Waiting for the Flying Fish to Leap: Revisiting the Values and Individuality of Tokugawa People as Practiced -- Chapter 3 Good Older Brother, Bad Younger Brother: Sibling Rivalry in the Hirata Family -- Chapter 4 Being a Brat: The Ethics of Child Disobedience in the Edo Period -- Part 2 The Construction of Identity -- Chapter 5 The Early Modern Co-Emergence of Individuality and Collective Identity -- Chapter 6 Rebirth of a Hirata School Nativist: Tsuruya Ariyo and His Kaganabe Journal -- Chapter 7 New Cultures, New Identities: Becoming Okinawan and Japanese in Nineteenth-Century Ryukyu -- Part 3 Erotic Emotionality and Parody -- Chapter 8 Searching For Erotic Emotionality in Tokugawa Japan -- Chapter 9 Laughter Connects the Sacred (sei ) and the Sexual (sei 性): The Blossoming of Parody in Edo Culture -- Part 4 Equality and Modernity -- Chapter 10 The Unconventional Origins of Modern Japan: Mantei Ōga vs. Fukuzawa Yukichi -- Chapter 11 Flowery Tales: Ōe Taku, Kōbe, and the Making of Meiji Japan's 'Emancipation Moment' -- Chapter 12 From Relational Identity to Specific Identity: On Equality and Nationality -- Epilogue-The Historiographical Issues -- Chapter 13 Epilogue: Reimagining Early Modern Japan-Beyond the Imagined/Invented Modern Nation -- Glossary -- Index for Values, Identity and Equality.
The chapters in this volume use diverse methodologies to challenge a number of long-standing assumptions regarding the principal contours of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese society, especially regarding values, social hierarchy, state authority, and the construction and spread of identity.
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Social values-Japan-History. Social structure-Japan-History. Authority-Social aspects-Japan-History. Identity (Psychology)-Japan-History. Group identity-Japan-History. Equality-Japan-History. Japan-Social conditions-18th century. Japan-Social conditions-19th century.