Blind In Early Modern Japan
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Author |
: Wei Yu Wayne Tan |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2022-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472220434 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0472220438 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blind in Early Modern Japan by : Wei Yu Wayne Tan
While the loss of sight—whether in early modern Japan or now—may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600–1868) could thrive because of disability. The blind of the era were prominent across a wide range of professions, and through a strong guild structure were able to exert contractual monopolies over certain trades. Blind in Early Modern Japan illustrates the breadth and depth of those occupations, the power and respect that accrued to the guild members, and the lasting legacy of the Tokugawa guilds into the current moment. The book illustrates why disability must be assessed within a particular society’s social, political, and medical context, and also the importance of bringing medical history into conversation with cultural history. A Euro-American-centric disability studies perspective that focuses on disability and oppression, the author contends, risks overlooking the unique situation in a non-Western society like Japan in which disability was constructed to enhance blind people’s power. He explores what it meant to be blind in Japan at that time, and what it says about current frameworks for understanding disability.
Author |
: Gerald Groemer |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2019-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789811373763 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9811373760 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan by : Gerald Groemer
This volume presents a series of five portraits of Edo, the central region of urban space today known as Tokyo, from the great fire of 1657 to the devastating earthquake of 1855. This book endeavors to allow Edo, or at least some of the voices that constituted Edo, to do most of the speaking. These voices become audible in the work of five Japanese eye-witness observers, who notated what they saw, heard, felt, tasted, experienced, and remembered. “An Eastern Stirrup,” presents a vivid portrait of the great conflagration of 1657 that nearly wiped out the city. “Tales of Long Long Ago,” details seventeenth-century warrior-class ways as depicted by a particularly conservative samurai. “The River of Time,” describes the city and its flourishing cultural and economic development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. “The Spider’s Reel” looks back at both the attainments and calamities of Edo in the 1780s. Finally, “Disaster Days,” offers a meticulous account of Edo life among the ruins of the catastrophic 1855 tremor. Read in sequence, these five pieces offer a unique “insider’s perspective” on the city of Edo and early modern Japan.
Author |
: Maren A. Ehlers |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2020-10-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781684175895 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1684175895 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Give and Take by : Maren A. Ehlers
"Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society such as outcastes and itinerant entertainers. Most of these individuals are now forgotten and do not feature in general histories except as bystanders, protestors, or subjects of exploitation. Yet despite their subordinate status, they actively participated in the Tokugawa polity because the state was built on the principle of reciprocity between privilege-granting rulers and duty-performing status groups. All subjects were part of these local, self-governing associations whose members shared the same occupation. Tokugawa rulers imposed duties on each group and invested them with privileges, ranging from occupational monopolies and tax exemptions to external status markers. Such reciprocal exchanges created permanent ties between rulers and specific groups of subjects that could serve as conduits for future interactions.This book is the first to explore how high and low people negotiated and collaborated with each other in the context of these relationships. It takes up the case of one domain—Ōno in central Japan—to investigate the interactions between the collective bodies in domain society as they addressed the problem of poverty."
Author |
: Haruo Shirane |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 572 |
Release |
: 2008-04-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231516142 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231516143 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Early Modern Japanese Literature by : Haruo Shirane
This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon, kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). It also features poetic genres such as waka, haiku, senryu, and kyoka, and plays ranging from Chikamatsu's puppet plays to nineteenth-century kabuki. Readers will continue to benefit from the anthology's selection of significant essays, treatises, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works, as well as the numerous prints that accompanied these works. They will also find Shirane's introductions and critical commentary, which guide the reader through the allusive and often elliptical nature of these incredible selections.
Author |
: Wei Yu Wayne Tan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 114 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:680630355 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blind Monks for Hire by : Wei Yu Wayne Tan
Author |
: Marcia Yonemoto |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2016-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520292000 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520292006 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan by : Marcia Yonemoto
Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During this time, however, women had considerable power to directly affect social structure, political practice, and economic production. This apparent contradiction between official norms and experienced realities lies at the heart of The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan. Examining prescriptive literature and instructional manuals for womenÑas well as diaries, memoirs, and letters written by and about individual women from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth centuryÑMarcia Yonemoto explores the dynamic nature of Japanese womenÕs lives during the early modern era.
Author |
: Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Ph.D. |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 333 |
Release |
: 2012-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780313392016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0313392013 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voices of Early Modern Japan by : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Ph.D.
Based on fresh translations of historical documents, this volume offers a revealing look at Japan during the time of the Tokugawa shoguns from 1600–1868, focusing on the day-to-day lives of both the rich and powerful and ordinary citizens. Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns spans an extraordinary period of Japanese history, ranging from the unification of the warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early 17th century to the overthrow of the shogunate just prior to the mid-19th century opening of Japan by the West. Through close examinations of sources from a time known as "The Great Peace," this fascinating volume offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era—its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more. Sources come from all levels of Japanese society, everything from government documents and household records to personal correspondence and diaries, all carefully translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship.
Author |
: Constantine Nomikos Vaporis |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2020-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000280913 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000280918 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voices of Early Modern Japan by : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early seventeenth century to the overthrow of the shogunate just after the opening of Japan by the West in the mid- nineteenth century. Through close examination of primary sources from "The Great Peace," this fascinating textbook offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era: its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more, demonstrating what historians can uncover from the words of ordinary people. New features include: • An expanded section on religion, morality and ethics; • A new selection of maps and visual documents; • Sources from government documents and household records to diaries and personal correspondence, translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship; • Updated references for student projects and research assignments. The first edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan was the winner of the 2013 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Curricular Materials. This fully revised textbook will prove a comprehensive resource for teachers and students of East Asian Studies, history, culture, and anthropology.
Author |
: Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi |
Publisher |
: Harvard Univ Asia Center |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674040376 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674040373 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anti-foreignism and Western Learning in Early-modern Japan by : Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
ESSAYS ON THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE JAPANESE BETWEEN 1600-1870.
Author |
: William E. Deal |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195331264 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195331265 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan by : William E. Deal
This book is an introduction the Japanese history, culture, and society from 1185 - the beginning of the Kamakura period - through the end of the Edo period in 1868.