...Douglas R. Reynolds Abstract The history of “area studies” as an academic discipline remains to be written. When it is, it will have to begin with a little known, historically important Japanese institution in China. That institution, Tōa Dōbun Shoin (East Asia Common Culture Academy or, after 1939...

...H. J. Timperley Abstract In studying the background of Japan's expansionist policy it is necessary to take into account the part played by Yoshida Shōin, one of the most picturesque and colorful personalities in modern Japanese history. Yoshida was one of the outstanding figures of the movement...

... secondary works. 19 yoshida Shōin zenshū [ The Collected Worlds of Yoshida Shōin ], XII (Tokyo, 1940), 206. 20 Many extremely important questions still remain concerning the relation between Shōin’s school and the later rise of the Chōshū sonnō jōi intellectuals: how many students...

... were social revolutionaries, serious political thinkers, and institutional innovators. To argue his case, Huber examines the writings and political careers of Choshu activists associated with the Sonjuku group. A private academy headed by Yoshida Shoin, the Shoka Sonjuku produced numerous Restoration...

..., and the eventual election to the presidency of Corazon Aquino in February, 1986. Chinese Area Studies in Prewar China: Japan's Toa Dobun Shoin in Shanghai, 1900-1945 DOUGLAS R. REYNOLDS Pages 945-970 The history of "area studies" as an academic discipline remains to be written. When it is, it will have to begin...

... and Shinto thought in the Tokugawa period. Again, the sympathetic treatment of Norinaga's faith in Amaterasu helps us to appreciate how this deity could become an object of worship endowed with qualities approaching those of a personal savior, in the thinking of late Tokugawa loyalists such as Yoshida Shoin...

... also Chuang-ta Wu , Liu-ch'iu yü Chung-kuo , 188 pp. , Cheng-chung shu-chü, 1948; Mutō Chōhei, Seinan. bun'un shiron ( 516 pp., Tokyo: Oka Shoin, 1926 ), 275 – 420 ; Atsushi Kobata , Chūsei nantō tsūkō bōeki shi no kenkyū ( 552 pp., Tokyo : Nippon Hyōronsha , 1939...

... : Chikuma shobō . Tatsuya Naramoto . 1960 . Kinsei Nihon shisōshi kenkyū . Tokyo : Iwanami . Nishimura Yoshimi et al. 1974 . Andō Shōeki . Tokyo : Iki shoin . Norman E. H. 1949 . “Andō Shōeki and the Anatomy of Japanese Feudalism.” In Transactions of the Asiatic Society...

...Richard von Glahn Shunjū Sengoku jidai seidō kahei no seisei to tenkai 春秋戦国時代青銅貨幣の生成と展開 [Genesis and development of bronze currencies in the spring and autumn and Warring States periods] . By Emura Haruki 江村治樹. Tokyo : Kyūko shoin , 2011 . 6, 472 pp. ¥15,000 (cloth). Chūgoku...

...Ronald Suleski Kenkoku daigaku no kenkyū: Nihon Teigoku shugi no ichidanmen . By Yamane Yukio . Tokyo : Kyōko shoin , 2003 . 448 pp. ¥8,000. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 518 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S carries the mission of urging those...

... thought in the Tokugawa period. Again, the sympathetic treatment of Norinaga's faith in Amaterasu helps us to appreciate how this deity could become an object of worship endowed with qualities approaching those of a personal savior, in the thinking of late Tokugawa loyalists such as Yoshida Shoin. In sum...

...John D. Eyre Nara Bonchi . By the Geography Section, Nara Women's College . Tokyo : Kokon Shoin , 1961 . 403 . Illustrated, Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Index. Yen 1000. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 397 old-time residents of Japan, has...

...John D. Eyre Kōiki chūshin toshi (Regional Central Cities) . Edited by Kiuchi Shinzō and Tanabe Ken'ichi . Tokyo : Kohon Shoin , 1971 . Maps, Tables, Graphs, Index. 284 pp. ￥2,300. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 330 other things) a unified exchange...

... and is another worthwhile work. Harvard University S. Y. TENC Nihon shakaishi g ^flft (Social history of Japan). BY TAKIKAWA MASAJIRO tBHk Tokyo: Toko Shoin, 1938 (revised). 377 p. This work was first published in part in the Nihon bunka koza (Lectures on Japanese culture) series in April 1928. Revised...

..., the case studies begin, and within the space of just 153 liberally footnoted pages, we are taken in sequence through three examples of seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury Chinese studies' shijuku (Nakae Toju's Toju Shoin, Ito Jinsai's Kogido, Miura Baien's Baien Juku), one example of a nineteenth-century...

...J. Cohn Bungaku ni okeru “mukōgawa” [The “Other Side” in Literature] . Edited by Kokubungaku Kenkyū Shiryōkan (National Institute of Japanese Literature). Tokyo : Meiji Shoin , 1985 . 295 pp. Notes. ¥2,800. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK REVIEWS...

... Shoin , 1948 . 574 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 1 “So to Kinkoku to no bōeki ni tsuite” (Concerning the trade between Sung and Chin), Sbigaku zasshi , 48 no. 1 (1937), an abstract of which in English by Edwin O. Reischauer appeared in HJAS 3 no. 2...

... , “ Fuashizumu hihan ,” Keizai ōrai 7 (January 1932 ): 50 – 54 . 21 Ibid., p. 56. 22 Masamichi Rōyama , Gendai no shakai shisō ( Tokyo : Kōyō shoin , 1934 ) . 23 Ibid., p. 21. 24 Rocco Alfredo , “The Political Doctrine of Fascism...

... concentrates solely on Yoshida Shoin in the apparent belief, though never articulated by the author, that this thinker represents both a culmination in concept formation and "the opening of a period of implementation, beyond the scope of this investigation" (Preface, v The promise of the second half...

...Kojiro Tomita Jōdai Yamato-é zenshi . (Comprehensive history of early Yamato-é). By Saburō Ienaca . Tokyo : Takagiri Shoin , 1946 . viii, 534 p. 23 plates (45 illus.). 68 yen. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 BOOK REVIEWS Jodai Yamato-e zenshi...