...Jordan Sand 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Was Meiji Taste in Interiors “Orientalist”? Jordan Sand The Meiji elite adopted many of the styles and tastes of the Victorian West. In domestic architecture, this is seen particularly in the interiors...

... zasshi (Letters Magazine) 2 , no. 4 : 5 . Piper Andrew . 2009 . Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Takanori Ri . 1996 . Hyōshō kūkan no kindai: Meiji “Nihon” no media hensei (The Space...

... Dynasty (1644–1911) reforms since the 1860s into “failures” and contemporary Meiji (1868–1912) reforms into “successes.” To grasp this dramatic reversal, we need new interpretations of the 1894–95 Sino-Japanese War that will unravel the Japanese and global propaganda that engulfed the world press...

... of the contradictions of Japan in the Meiji period (1868–1912). Typically paired with Natsume S¯oseki as the archetypal Meiji writer, Ogai¯ was not only a novelist and poet of Apollonian aesthetics but also an erudite and scathing critic, an army doctor...

..., in the Meiji (1868 – 1912) and Taish periods (1912 – 26). During this time, Japanese art was in many ways informed by the movements and ideas included in Barr’s rendering. However, the social and institutional frameworks for art in relation to which...

...Urs Matthias Zachmann Duke University Press 2007 Blowing Up a Double Portrait in Black and White: The Concept of Asia in the Writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Okakura Tenshin Urs Matthias Zachmann Questioning the East/West Binary in Meiji Intellectual History...

.... See Chapman and Krogness 2014 and White 2018 for more background on historical changes to koseki rules. 5 This issue is worthy of further discussion, but requires a lengthy explanation of how the koseki was used and understood during the Meiji and Taisho periods and the first half...

... – 92 . Tokyo : Ochanomizu Shobo . Castel Robert . 2003 . From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers: Transformation of the Social Question . New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction . Ericson Steven J. 1996 . The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan . Cambridge, MA...

..., and intellectual practices at the beginning of the Meiji period (1868-1912), a stubborn pair of oppositions has shaped discourse on twentieth-century Jap- Fujii I Writing Out Asia 197 anese literature: in premodern...

... of Modern Japanese Literature but ends up doing it regard- positions 2:3 Winter 1994 544 less. By conflating Westernization and modernization, scholarship on the Meiji period overdetermines certain...

... will examine the ways in which Toson depicts tuberculosis, a disease so ubiqui- tous in late Meiji Japan that it was widely known as ko@ninbyG (our national disease). Tuberculosis admittedly plays a marginal role in the novel; the disease...

... Erratum for Hoyt J. Long, “(Il)legibility and Handwriting in Meiji Letters: A Media History,” positions 25, no. 2 (2017): 255 – 92. This erratum remedies a scholarly error. In his article, Hoyt Long did not acknowledge the prior work of Seth Jacobowitz. Professor Long wishes to acknowledge...

... explosive,” linking the language problem that shook Meiji Japan to national and imperialist consciousness. Central to this emerging discourse was Ueda positions 7:2 0 1999 by Duke University Press. positions 7:2 Fall 1999...

... that seems positions 19:1  doi 10.1215/10679847-­2010-­025 Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press positions 19:1  Spring 2011 84 disproportionate to her power to threaten. At the close of the Meiji...

... periodic medical examinations of Filipina prostitutes whose customers were in the American navy during the US. occupation of the Philippines. Put in place during the Meiji period (1868-1912), the modern Japanese licensed prostitution...

... professor of history at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan (2009), and articles on intellectual history including “Völkerpsychologie and the Appropriation of ‘Spirit’ in Meiji...

.... Urs Matthias Zachmann is an assistant professor at the Japan Center of the University of Munich. He has written his doctoral thesis on China’s role in late Meiji geopolitical and geocultural discourse and has published a number of articles on late...

... 1910–1923” (“Discussion: Various Questions of Taisho Critique, 1910–1923”) . In Kindai Nihon no hihyō: Meiji Taisho hen (Critique in Modern Japan: Meiji and Taisho) , edited by Kōjin Karatani , 177 – 356 . Tokyo : Kōdansha Bungei Bunko . Bergson Henri . 1903 . Introduction à la...

... a fusion that occurred in the Meiji period of modes of modern writing and modes of modern being. Within the scopic regime of (colonial) discovery, the sine qua non of mod- ern selfhood among Ishikawa and his literary contemporaries...

... . Ericson Steven J. 1996 . The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center . Fujii James A. 1999 . “ Intimate Alienation: Japanese Urban Rail and the Commodification of Urban Subjects .” differences: A Journal of Feminist...