Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945 : The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Usage -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Tokugawa Period -- 1 Hayashi Razan (1583-1657) and Hayashi Gaho (1618-80): Founders of Modern Historical Scholarship -- 2 Dai Nihon Shi [History of Great Japan] -- 3 Arai Hakuseki (1657-1725) and Yamagata Banto (1748-1821): Pure Rationalism -- 4 Date Chihiro (1802-77): Three Stages in the History of Japan -- 5 The Resistance of the National Scholars -- Part 2: The Modern Century -- 6 European Influences on Meiji Historical Writing -- 7 The Beginning of Academic History -- 8 The Kume Kunitake Incident, 1890-2 -- 9 The Development of Academic History -- 10 The Southern and Northern Courts Controversy, 1911 -- 11 Eminent Historians in the 1930s: The Betrayal of Scientific History -- 12 The Commission of Inquiry into Historical Sites Related to Emperor Jinmu, 1940 -- 13 Tsuda Sokichi (1873-1961): An Innocent on the Loose -- Epilogue: Historical Scholarship, Education, and Politics in Postwar Japan -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.

This is the first comprehensive study of modern Japanese historians and their relationship to nationalism and how they interpreted ancient myths of their origins.

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