Meiji Restoration Losers

Memory And Tokugawa Supporters In Modern Japan

by Michael Wert
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Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY, ASIA CENTER, December of 2013 ‧
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This book is about the losers of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Using sources ranging from essays by former Tokugawa supporters like Fukuzawa Yukichi to postwar film and “lost decade” manga, Michael Wert shows how shifting portrayals of Restoration losers have influenced the formation of national history.

Meiji Restoration Losers

Memory And Tokugawa Supporters In Modern Japan

by Michael Wert

Property Description
ISBN: 9780674726703
Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY, ASIA CENTER
Release Date: December of 2013
Language: English
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Format: Book
Collection: Harvard East Asian Monographs
Categories: Books in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Geography
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780674726703

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Wert

Michael Wert é professor associado de História da Ásia Oriental na Universidade Marquette, no Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Especializado no Japão inicial e moderno, publicou ainda a obra Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan. Também pratica Kyudo (tiro ao arco japonês) e esgrima japonesa. O seu trabalho mais recente aborda a esgrima e a relação entre o samurai e os plebeus, bem como o papel da violência na sociedade japonesa dos séculos XVII-XIX.

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