From Country to Nation

Gideon Fujiwara

Published by Cornell University Press 2021

From Country to Nation

Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Gideon Fujiwara

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501753954

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About this book

Using compelling firsthand accounts, Fujiwara tells the story of the rise of modern Japan, from the perspective of local intellectuals who envisioned their local "countrywithin a nation that emerged as an empire of the modern world.

Author information

Gideon Fujiwara is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of Asian Studies at the University of Lethbridge.

Reviews

John Bentley, Northern Illinois University:

"From Country to Nation presents new information about an era (both geographically and intellectually) that has received scant attention in the West. Gideon Fujiwara provides a compelling argument about the importance of seeing Hirata Kokugaku as a catalyst who helped nudge a group of people in the Hirosaki area toward modernization, rejecting the Bakufu and restoring the Emperor."

Helen Hardacre, Harvard University:

"From Country to Nation is part of a growing literature on Kokugaku (nativism and nativist thought, a protonationalist /anti-colonialist movement in the form it took in the mid-late nineteenth century). Gideon Fujiwara's focus on Hirosaki/Tsugaru allows the reader to understand how and why Atsutane's thought appealed to local intellectual and religious leaders and hence took root in regional society."

Anne Walthall, University of California, Irvine:

"Gideon Fujiwara presents entirely new material in From Country to Nation by examining the lives, times, and works of nineteenth-century artists, poets, and writers from Tsugaru in northern Japan who found a voice in the Hirata Atsutane school of Japan studies."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Tables and Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Explanatory Notes Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Seeing the “Country” of Tsugaru in Northeastern Japan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Visions of Japan and Other “Countries” in the World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3. Hirata Kokugaku and the National Network Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
4. The Academy and the Tsugaru Disciples Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
5. Locating Tsugaru within Sacred Japan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
6. Sacred Mountain, Landscape, and Afterlife Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
7. Supporting the Restoration in War and Ritual Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
8. Modern Society and the Tsugaru Disciples Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Conclusion: Ethnography, Kokugaku , and Community in Modern Japan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Selected List of Characters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 292
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Images: 24
- Other: 24 b&w halftones, 3 maps, 3 color plates
Keywords: Kokugaku and Nationalism; Northeast Japan and the Meiji Restoration; Multilayered identities in Japan; Tsugaru domain

eBook

Published: May 15, 2021
ISBN: 9781501753954