Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture

Published by Princeton University Press 1971

Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture

Edited by: Donald H. Shively

In the series Princeton Legacy Library

Volume 1854 in the series Studies in the Modernization of Japan

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400869015

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Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowing from the West in the first decades after the Restoration: the formulation of strategies for modernizing and the adaptation of Western models to Meiji culture. In the second half of the volume, the darker side, the pathology of modernization, is seen. The adjustment of the individual and the effects of progressive modernization on culture in an increasingly complex, twentieth-century society are recurring themes. They are illustrated with particular intensity in the experience of such writers as Natsume Soseki and Kobayashi Hideo, in the thought of Nishida Kitaro, and in the millenarian aspects of the new religions.

Originally published in 1971.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Editor's Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
PART ONE. Strategies for Modernizing
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER I. On the Nature of Western Progress: The Journal of the Iwakura Embassy Eugene Soviak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
CHAPTER II .Westernization and Japanization: The Early Meiji Transformation of Education Michio Nagai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
CHAPTER III. The Japanization of the Middle Meiji Donald H. Shively Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
CHAPTER IV. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and Its Cultural Effects in Japan Donald Keene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
PART TWO. The Arts in the Meiji Period
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
CHAPTER V. Western-Style Painting in the Early Meiji Period and Its Critics John M. Rosenfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
CHAPTER VI. The Formation of Realism in Meiji Painting: The Artistic Career of Takahashi Yuichi Tōru Haga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
CHAPTER VII. The Modern Music of Meiji Japan William P. Malm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
PART THREE. The Search for Identity in Literature
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
CHAPTER VIII. Natsume Sōseki and the Psychological Novel Howard S. Hibbett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
CHAPTER IX. Toson and the Autobiographical Novel Edwin McClellan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
CHAPTER X. Masaoka Shiki and Tanka Reform Robert H. Brower Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
CHAPTER XI. Kobayashi Hideo Edward Seidensticker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
CHAPTER XII. Fukuda Tsuneari: Modernization and Shingeki Benito Ortolani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
PART FOUR. Philosophy, Religion, and Language
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
CHAPTER XIII. Nishida Kitarō: The Early Years Valdo Humbert Viglielmo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507
CHAPTER XIV. Millenarian Aspects of the New Religions in Japan Carmen Blacker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	563
CHAPTER XV. Levels of Speech (keigo) and the Japanese Linguistic Response to Modernization Roy Andrew Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	601
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	669
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	673