Values, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan
Edited by Peter Nosco, University of British Columbia, James E. Ketelaar University of Chicago, and Yasunori Kojima, International Christian University, Tokyo
The chapter titles are as follows:
Peter Nosco and James E. Ketelaar Introduction: Values, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan
PART 1—VALUES IN PRACTICE
Eiko Ikegami Waiting for the Flying Fish to Leap: Revisiting the Values and Individuality of Tokugawa People as Practiced
Anne Walthall Good Older Brother, Bad Younger Brother: Sibling Rivalry in the Hirata School
- Puck Brecher Being a Brat: The Ethics of Child Disobedience in the Edo Period
PART 2—THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY
Peter Nosco The Early Modern Co-Emergence of Individuality and Collective Identity
Gideon Fujiwara Rebirth of a Hirata School Nativist: Tsuruya Ariyo and HisKaganabe Journal
Gregory Smits New Cultures, New Identities: Becoming Okinawan and Japanese in Nineteenth-Century Ryukyu
PART 3—EROTIC EMOTIONALITY AND PARODY
James E. Ketelaar Searching for Erotic Emotionality in Tokugawa Japan
Yasunori Kojima Laughter Connects the Sacred (sei 聖) and the Sexual (sei 性): The Blossoming of Parody in the Edo Culture
PART 4—EQUALITY AND MODERNITY
- William Steele The Unconventional Origins of Modern Japan: Mantei Ōga vs. Fukuzawa Yukichi
Daniel V. Botsman Flowery Tales: Ōe Taku (1847–1921), Kōbe and the Making of Meiji Japan’s ‘Emancipation Moment’
Naoki Sakai From Relational Identity to Specific Identity: On Equality and Nationality
EPILOGUE—THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ISSUES
Jun’ichi Isomae Epilogue: Reimagining Early Modern Japan—Beyond the Imagined/Invented Modern Nation
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