...Herman Ooms Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in Eighteenth-century Tosa . By Luke S. Roberts . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1998 . xv, 251 pp. $59.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK...

... Writing .” positions 4 ( 3 ): 593 – 636 . Fukazawa Tōru . 1983 . “ Tosa nikki jikū ron—sono tassei to genkai” [Space and Time in the Tosa Diary —Achievements and Limitations] . Nihon bungaku 32 ( 6 ): 59 – 68 . Furuhashi Nobuyoshi . 1994 . Kodai toshi no bungei seikatsu...

...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...

...Karen M. Gerhart The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e . By Sandy Kita . Honolulu .: University of Hawaii Press , 1999 . xii, 412 pp. $42.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 177 throughout his oeuvre...

...: The Merchant Origins ofEconomic Nationalism in Eighteenth-century Tosa. By LUKE S. ROBERTS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xv, 251 pp. $59-95. This book is more than a monograph on the economic history of eighteenthcentury Tosa. Foremost, Luke Roberts offers us a fairly complete social...

..., and that it may have been written by an artist of the Tosa School. In particular, she argues that Tosa Mitsunori (1583-1638) is a likely candidate, as his paintings purportedly have the closest correspondence to the manual directives. To demonstrate this point, Iconography is illustrated with 230 Genji paintings...

.... Others consulted by Abe were Date Munenari of Uwajima, Yamanouchi Toyoshige of Tosa, and Matsudaira Yoshinaga of Echizen. The significance of this group of daimyo will be immediately apparent. When joined later by the daimyo of Choshu they made up the faction of politically active non-fudai daimyo who...

... access to new imports of Western military equipment. At Nagasaki, the preponderance of imports were in arms, and of those the greater part were destined for Satsuma. Tosa too entered the picture with a trading firm. The Satsuma channels of arms finally led to the alliance with Choshu, with Tosa acting...

... they continued to speak out in support of the bakufu. Specifically after the lords of Satsuma, Uwajima, Fukui, and Tosa asserted that the Court had not approved the second Choshu expedition, the lords of Takamatsu, lino, Hikone, Matsuyama (Iyo), Kuwana, Oshi, Okazaki, Himeji, Nagaoka, and Yoshida jointly replied...

... who lived in the country), whose dissatisfactions he describes in some detail, were extremely important in the Tosa loyalist movement; that both were to be found "in generous proportion" in the Restoration armies of Tosa in 1867; and that these two groups were among the chief beneficiaries when...

... in the early Korean language" (p. 3). This theory remains controversial and is far from being widely accepted. On the same page, in his discussion of women's contributions to a simplification of the written Japanese language, Welch writes, "female writer Ki no Tsurayuki, author of the Tosa Diary (Tosa Nikki...

... readership, in the form of the language, in method and amount of order and unification used, and in the degree to which that ordering is dependent on the reader or writer" (p. 294). The Tosa nikki, for example, appears to violate the convention of unity of author, narrative voice, and main character by using...

...), became attributed to Jo¯nin, which meant to take part in the political mechanism for Ko¯zanji in making its founder Myo¯e a charismatic saint. Takeuchi argues that the Tosa school, the painting powerhouse for the imperial family, was created retroactively from the name of a little-known ancestor...

... recent history—and his relationship with Aung San Suu Kyi, on the one hand, and with the military regime, on the other, is especially instructive. However, it is the last essay in this section, Keiko Tosa's essay on rumors as a form of popular resistance, that illuminates how Burmese people on the ground...

... in the formulation of the "Oath" employed it for his own purposes soon after its promulgation. Fukuoka Kotei, a samurai of the Tosa clan, joined with Soejima Taneomi of Hizen, in seizing upon the first article of the "Oath" as justification for a complaint concerning the operation of the new government...

... contributions to a simplification of the written Japanese language, Welch writes, "female writer Ki no Tsurayuki, author of the Tosa Diary (Tosa Nikki) . . . " (p. 3). Ki no Tsurauki, a man, was one of the compilers of Kokin Wakashu, a famous anthology otwaka compiled by imperial command. He also wrote Tosa...

... of women's fictions. Although she focuses specifically on just four tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth-century works Kagero nikki, Sarasbina nikki, Sanuki no suke nikki and Makura no soshi (and, more briefly, Tosa nikki) her language, method, themes, and perspectives are full of resonance for our reading...

... with many provocative suggestions and illuminating apercus. The four diaries are the Tosa Niffi of Tsurayuki, the lzumi Shi\ibu Nityi, Basho's O\u no Hosomichi, and Shiki's Bolan Kuro\u. The author's introductory remarks on each of the four selections will be delightfully informative for the general reader...

... had formed a military alliance to overthrow the Bakufu in 1868, and had consolidated their hold on the country in 1871 when their crack troops marched to Tokyo to form the nucleus of a new Imperial army, assisted by levies from Tosa. But the Satsuma, Choshu and Tosa leaders in their capacity...

... s famous paintings, including Myo¯e Seated in a Pine Forest (1230s), became attributed to Jo¯nin, which meant to take part in the political mechanism for Ko¯zanji in making its founder Myo¯e a charismatic saint. Takeuchi argues that the Tosa school, the painting powerhouse for the imperial family...