...Lane Earns Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties . By Louis G. Perez . Cranbury, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press , 1999 . 248 pp. $41.50 (cloth). 258 THE JOURNAL...

... (Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95), Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten , 1974 , p. 202 ; and Seizaburo Shinobu , Nisshin Sensō [orig. pub. 1934 as Mutsu Gaiko (Diplomacy of Mutsu Munemitsu)], Tokyo : Sūbunkaku , (enl. & rev. ed.) 1970 , p. 31 . Most Communist Chinese historians followed...

...B. Winston Kahn Kenkenroku: A Diplomatic Record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894–1895 . By Mutsu Munemitsu . Edited and translated by Gordon Mark Berger . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1983 . xx, 318 pp. Photographs, Maps, Notes, Chronology, List of Character Equivalents...

... will appeal to a wide audience of readers, and brings a new dimension to our understanding of the place of Wright within the broader history of the collection and reception ofJapanese art in the twentieth century. JULIE NELSON DAVIS Oberlin College Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision...

... , Mutsu Munemitsu Den [Biography of Mutsu Munemitsu], ( Tokyo : Kaizōsha , 1934 ). pp. 127 –29 . 10 Ryūsaku Godai , Godai Tomoatsu Den [Biography of Godai Tomoatsu], ( Tokyo : Shūkōsha , 1933 ), pp. 373 –76 . Shigemaro Tsuda , Meiji Seijō to Shin Takayuki [The Emperor...

... of Mutsu Munemitsu and George Akita's portrayal of "the other Ito," Ito Miyoji, deal with the Meiji period. Professor Craig's essay, like his introduction, tends to be more psychologically oriented than many of the other studies, trying to contrast influences in family life and child rearing among Meiji...

... . 62 Suzuki , jiyū minken , pp. 233 – 235 ; see also, Taku Ōe , “ Seikai kaiko dan ” (“Recollections of the Political World”), Taiyō , XIII ( 02 1907 ), 175 – 176 . Mutsu Munemitsu, always close with those in this group, also gave the same rationale for joining...

.... 108-9). Even so, pragmatism expressed in these terms may serve to reinforce Maraini's point. It is a pleasure to have Hagihara Nobutoshi's splendid study of Mutsu Munemitsu, first published in 1965, available in English. It is a piece of wisdom and discernment with a brilliant exposition...

... of Masakado, Tales of Times Long Past, A Tale of Mutsu, and The Record of the Latter Three Years' War in Mutsu. The author performs a valuable service by analyzing the texts for clues to the date of composition and the identity of the author. Carefully separating fact from fiction, Varley further examines...

... was rooted in the strong national and modernizing influences of the extraordinary leaders who emerged in Japan during the Tokugawa period. Three essays, Professor Craig's study of Kido Koin and Okuma Shigenobu, Marius Jansen's bold portrait of Mutsu Munemitsu and George Akita's portrayal of "the other Ito...

... For detaris, sec NGB , XXVUl, part I, 301–306; Katō Takaaki to Mutsu Munemitsu, Sept. 5, 1895, Mutsu Munemitsu Monjo , 68.7, NDL. (Hereafter cited as Mutsu Monjo , 68.7, NDL.) 33 Gikaishi , III, 1619f. 34 NGB , XXVIII, part I, 303. 35 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60). The eight-pounds...

..."; Hagihara Nobutoshi, "Mutsu Munemitsu in Europe, 1884-85: The Intellectual in Search of an Ideology." Part 3: The Darker Side. John Lin, with Reginald Rajapakse, "Workers, Peasants, and Women in Taisho Japan: Legacy of the Meiji Mind"; Sharlie C. Ushioda, "Fukuda Hideko and the Woman's World of Meiji Japan...

..., pragmatism expressed in these terms may serve to reinforce Maraini's point. It is a pleasure to have Hagihara Nobutoshi's splendid study of Mutsu Munemitsu, first published in 1965, available in English. It is a piece of wisdom and discernment with a brilliant exposition of the motivation that made Mutsu...

... , 23. 1 ( 02 1954 ), 31 – 48 . 4 Nisshi sensō (The Sino-Japanese War), 1934 ; Mutsu gaikō (The Diplomacy of Mutsu), 1935 ; Gotō Shimpei , 1941 ; Kindai Nihon gaikō shi (Diplomatic history of Modern Japan), 1942 ; Kindai Nihon sangyō shi josetsu (Introduction...

... form of emperor-centered nationalism in all classes, as seen in the case of Kanno Hachiro, a semiliterate peasant from Mutsu. Having heard rumors spreading "all over Japan" (Nibon kokuju), Kanno raced to Uraga "in the 120th {sic] emperor's reign" to observe the barbarian Perry (Shoji Kichinosuke et al...

...: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2003 ) . For Japan's China policy during and following the war, also see Mutsu Munemitsu , Kenkenroku: A Diplomatic Record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894–95 , ed. and trans. Gordon Mark Berger ( Tokyo : The Japan...

... not mention (e.g., the case of the nuclear ship Mutsu). On the subject of violence, Apter criticizes received social science theory because it omits "what might be called the cognitive dimensions of daily life and action in favor of overkill theories in which case materials become merely illustrative" (p. 13...

... to be considered as well. Pyle also could have devoted more space to examining the diplomacy of Mutsu Minemitsu and Komura Jutaro, as they were instrumental in formulating the key guiding principles of prewar Japanese foreign policy. But these are small criticisms, and in no way detract from this important work...

.... An excellent example would be the parallel that she correctly draws between the repetitive rows of pine trees in Taiga s Wondrous Scenery of Mutsu (1749, just one year after Taiga s rst experience of a Korean embassy) and those in the works of various Korean painters, most notably the great Cho ng So n (1676...

... to Matsumae had already produced an unusually high degree of linguistic, religiocultural, and socioeconomic homogeneity. Then in the 1850s a foreign crisis spawned an embryonic form of emperor-centered nationalism in all classes, as seen in the case of Kanno Hachiro, a semiliterate peasant from Mutsu. Having...