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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 691–721.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Mark J. Ravina Abstract According to standard reference works, the Meiji leader Saigō Takamori committed ritual suicide in 1877. A close reading of primary sources, however, reveals that Saigō could not have killed himself as commonly described; instead, he was crippled by a bullet wound...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (1): 198–199.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Gregory Smits The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori . By Mark Ravina . Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley and Sons , 2004 . xvi , 265 pp. $30.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 198 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D...
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in The Apocryphal Suicide of Saigō Takamori: Samurai, Seppuku , and the Politics of Legend
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2010
Figure 2. Saigō nehan zō (西郷涅槃像) by Nagashima Mōsai (永嶋孟斎), printed in Tokyo in October 5, 1877. Kagoshima City Museum of Art.
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in The Apocryphal Suicide of Saigō Takamori: Samurai, Seppuku , and the Politics of Legend
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2010
Figure 4. Shiroyama saigo no kessen (城山最期之決戦) by Yamazaki Toshinobu (山崎年信), printed in Tokyo in October, 1877. Collection of the author.
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in The Apocryphal Suicide of Saigō Takamori: Samurai, Seppuku , and the Politics of Legend
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2010
Figure 5. Saigō shoshō seppuku no zu (西郷諸将切腹図) by Matsuzuki Hosei (松月保誠), printed in Tokyo on October 11, 1877. Ryōzen rekishikan.
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1943) 2 (3): 286–295.
Published: 01 May 1943
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, op. cit. , p. 155 . Saigō's “idea seems to have been that in performing or rather trying to perform, his mission he would be murdered by a Korean mob and that his death would furnish a fair casus belli for his...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1949) 9 (1): 20–41.
Published: 01 November 1949
... of the West, which he blended well with traditional native practice. In the distribution of important positions in the new Restoration government Ōmura was singled out among the many great Chōshū generals for the post of vice-minister of military affairs ( hyōbu-taiyū ), while the equally illustrious Saigō...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1948) 7 (4): 368–375.
Published: 01 August 1948
... for a period of education in Europe. She has resided in California since 1932. Her maternal grandfather, author of the letters here reproduced, came to Japan in 1868. 368 SATSUMA REBELLION OF 1877 369 many Japanese and foreigners as to what actually was the fate of Saigo Takamori, the colorful leader...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (4): 793–819.
Published: 01 August 1972
... Takayoshi, Okubo Toshimichi, and Ito Hirobumi) against several prominent members of the caretaker government of 1871-1873 (Saigo Takamori, Itagaki Taisuke, Soejima Taneomi, Eto Shimpei and Goto Shojiro). Their confrontation began with the Korean issue but quickly turned into a substitute for the grand...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (1): 199–200.
Published: 01 February 2006
... into question the tendency to regard the Meiji state as an inevitable outcome of late nineteenth-century conditions. Ravina takes Saigo¯ s Confucianism seriously, explains it in a clear manner, and brings it to bear usefully on key issues. Saigo¯ s well-known aversion to the minutiae of government...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (3): 365–376.
Published: 01 May 1957
... played a major role in the history of modern Japan such as Saigō Takamori, Ōkubo Toshimichi, Matsukata Masayoshi, and Admiral Tōgo Heihachiro grew up together in Kagoshima almost within a stone's throw of each other. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 1...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1153–1155.
Published: 01 November 2012
... underwent a revolution and remained weak and disunited, whereas Korea was annexed by Japan and completely lost its sovereignty. Its first chapter deals with the origin of the war and attempts to set it as a legacy of Saigō Takamori's seikanron (lit. advocacy of subjugating Korea) some two decades...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1138–1140.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... In this context, the book examines several parallel strands, including the remembrance of Oguri's contemporaries Ii Naosuke (1815–60) and Saigō Takamori (1828–77). Wert also weaves into his narrative the fascinating story of the legendary Tokugawa treasure hoard that Oguri supposedly buried near his home...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 663–681.
Published: 01 August 2021
... brothers represented in two literary texts. The first text is the “Kiso no saigo” (Death of Lord Kiso) chapter of the military tale Heike monogatari . This famous episode effectively adds another layer—a homoerotic bond—onto Kiso (Minamoto) Yoshinaka (1154–84) and Imai Kanehira's (1151?–84) lord...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (2): 183–197.
Published: 01 February 1962
... circle of the oligarchy: from Satsuma came Saigō Takamori, Ōkubo Toshimichi, Terashima Munenori, and Kuroda Kiyotaka; from Chōshū, Kido Kōin, Itō Hirobumi, Yamagata Aritomo, and Inoue Kaoru; from Hizen, Ōkuma Shigenobu, Soejima, Taneomi, Ōki Takatō, and Etō Shimpei; from Tosa, Itagaki Taisuke and Gotō...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 589–610.
Published: 01 August 1967
... as councillors and executive heads of the central government constantly disputed both their respective spheres of influence and the priority of the many measures involved in the common platform, "rich country, strong army." The resignation of Saigo Takamori of Satsuma and Itagaki Taisuke of Tosa over the issue...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 805–812.
Published: 01 August 2018
.... 30). Chapter 3 analyzes the “first important case of military insubordination,” the decision by Saigō Tsugumichi to invade Taiwan in 1874 against explicit orders to not do so (p. 38). Saigō justified his actions using “the hidden power of the emperor to circumvent established channels of authority...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (4): 839–840.
Published: 01 August 1986
... on the strongest possible leadership before the momentous announcement. The final agreement called for Kido and Saigo Takamori to share power, and the diary reveals Kido's disagreements with Okubo (p. 52), his appreciation for Okuma's role as go-between (p. 56), and admiration for Saigo's unselfishness (p. 55...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (3): 593–612.
Published: 01 May 1975
... to a lawsuit.28 On November 15, 1893, m order to map out Tokyo's next move following the Supreme Court decision, Minister of Navy Saigo appointed a six-man Committee for the Examination of the Chishima Collision Case, the guiding spirit of which seems to have been Hozumi Nobushige, the lawyer already...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1956) 16 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 November 1956
.... Shimazu Hisamitsu, father of the new daimyo of Satsuma and the real power in the domain from this time on, repudiated the activities of the unattached samurai, some of which were formerly members of the Satsuma domain. Among those still under his jurisdiction he banished Saigo Takamori and executed Arima...
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