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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 640–641.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790–1864 . By J. Victor Koschmann . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1987 . x, 174 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (2): 135–149.
Published: 01 February 1960
... daimyo of the Mito han , and compiled by the Confucian retainers of Mitsukuni and his successors. Two large sections of chronological Main Annals and Biographies (approximately half of the finished book) were completed by 1715, but the rest remained unfinished at the time of the Meiji Restoration. What...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 18 (2): 199–212.
Published: 01 February 1959
...Marius B. Jansen Abstract Takechi Zuizan was born in 1829, the eldest son of a gōshi in Nagaoka A district in Tosa. By 1856, when he was 27, he had become known as a leading master of fencing ( kenjutsu ) in Tosa. He then travelled to Edo, where he met and cooperated with fellow spirits from Mito...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 641–642.
Published: 01 August 1988
... and thus dramatized the critical and regenerative possibilities of restoration" (p. 166). Mito ideology, then, justified both the rebels' claim to rectify the Bakufu and their civil war that gravely undermined it. The Mito Ideology treats important topics little studied by Western historians. Koschmann...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 639–640.
Published: 01 August 1988
... model for students, showing how a scholar enters into creative dialogue with a people's tradition and moves toward integral understanding. THEODORE M. LUDWIG Valparaiso University The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790-1864. By J . VICTOR KOSCHMANN. Berkeley...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 24 (1): 115–121.
Published: 01 November 1964
... interpreted events with the assistance of the classical Chinese concept, one which made it possible to divide occurrences neatly into “internal disaster ( naiyū ),” and “external catastrophe ( gaikan ).” In Japanese usage, especially the polemics of the later Mito school, the resolution of naiyū took...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 459–460.
Published: 01 February 1971
... structure. "How," he asks, "did an essentially reactionary and atavistic ideology, sonno jot, become the motive force of a revolution?" (x). In answer, he traces a process whereby Mito writers converted an "ethical tradition into a theory of action" and whereby a "recessive nativist tradition" enabled...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (3): 394–396.
Published: 01 May 1962
... of a movement whose sole purpose it was to overthrow the despotic Tokugawa system." In tracing the genesis of this movement, he selects the political critiques of the later Mito school, which not only identified the "societal contradictions" in Tokugawa Japan, but also provided the method and rhetoric from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1956) 16 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 November 1956
... the inflexibility with which they have assigned roles and types to their historical figures. Mito Nariaki is typed as anti-foreign and anti-shogunal from the beginning to the end of his career. Yet there were times when he was neither. Shifts in his orientation were the outcome of fundamentally changing contexts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 599–602.
Published: 01 August 2022
... forward by Hirata nativists in Mito. The Mito case in fact epitomizes the fully assimilated yet subordinate status of Confucius in the late Tokugawa polity, in McMullen's account. He cites, for example, the opening ceremony for Mito's new domain school during which the officiant of a minor ritual...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 603–626.
Published: 01 August 2017
... and occupying strategic lands adjacent to the shogunal capital, the heads of the Mito domain were among the most powerful daimyo during the Tokugawa period, and were expected to provide shogunal heirs if the reigning shogun had no children of his own. Although Mito was smaller and not as rich as the domains...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 460–461.
Published: 01 February 1971
.... Bibliographical Note, Glossary, Index. $6.50. Japan's changing perception of the West in the mid-nineteenth century is the subject of this interesting and informative book. Heretofore, Fujita Toko (1806-1855) and Sakuma Shozan (1811-1864) have usually been known as political thinkers associated with the Mito...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 458–459.
Published: 01 February 1971
... an essentially reactionary and atavistic ideology, sonno jot, become the motive force of a revolution?" (x). In answer, he traces a process whereby Mito writers converted an "ethical tradition into a theory of action" and whereby a "recessive nativist tradition" enabled activists "to liberate themselves from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (3): 393–394.
Published: 01 May 1962
... Tokugawa system." In tracing the genesis of this movement, he selects the political critiques of the later Mito school, which not only identified the "societal contradictions" in Tokugawa Japan, but also provided the method and rhetoric from which a later attack could be mounted. These "societal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (3): 581–591.
Published: 01 May 1975
... and the second Choshu expedition The difficulty of the judai position was demonstrated by their response to the eruption of agitation, insurgency, and civil strife in and around Mito during 1864. During the first half of 1864 organized groups of people, mostly from Mito but including men from elsewhere, roved...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 August 1971
.... For example, while it is annoying to see diverse traditions reduced to a single set, it is misleading to link the Mito school with the \o\uga\usha as sharing a common conception of emperorship. I am sure this explanation would have come as a surprise to Aizawa Seishisai who wrote the Zo\u Naobi no Mitama...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 43 (1): 163–166.
Published: 01 November 1983
... of the need to remake the bakufu into a sort of national state (Conrad Totman). A "ragged band" of loyalists in Mito expressed their rage at bakufu policy in the 1860s (Koschmann), the loyalists in Kyoto gradually evolved a more sophisticated program to attack the bakufu (Huber), and the loyal Tokugawa...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 189–190.
Published: 01 February 2011
... impressive because they document that, even in more contemporary times and in places outside of China's borders, the Zhouli still commanded great influence. Kate Wildman Nakai documents how in Tokugawa Japan Mito School thinkers favored the text because they viewed it as championing a decentralized polity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 252–254.
Published: 01 February 2012
..., on the other hand, fused German philology with the Mito domain kokugaku school to give a definition of the Japanese nation across time. Anderson shows that Haga's masterstroke was to make the nation as the only subject capable of self-assertion and for the realization of Japan's manifest destiny as a world...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 321–323.
Published: 01 February 2008
... the corruption of the Buddhist institutions charged with certification. The shogunate itself tried repeatedly to leash them, while the daimyo of Mito, Okayama, and Aizu launched programs of “retrenching Buddhist temples” that included demolitions, defrockings, experiments with Shinto certification, and moves...