Japanese historians and the national myths, 1600-1945 : the age of the gods and Emperor Jinmu /
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| Author / Creator: | Brownlee, John S. |
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| Imprint: | Vancouver : UBC Press ; Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press, c1997. |
| Description: | viii, 256 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3830495 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Usage
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Tokugawa Period
- 1. Hayashi Razan (1583-1657) and Hayashi Gaho (1618-80): Founders of Modern Historical Scholarship
- 2. Dai Nihon Shi [History of Great Japan]
- 3. Arai Hakuseki (1657-1725) and Yamagata Banto (1748-1821): Pure Rationalism
- 4. Date Chihiro (1802-77): Three Stages in the History of Japan
- 5. The Resistance of the National Scholars
- Part 2. The Modern Century
- 6. European Influences on Meiji Historical Writing
- 7. The Beginning of Academic History
- 8. The Kume Kunitake Incident, 1890-2
- 9. The Development of Academic History
- 10. The Southern and Northern Courts Controversy, 1911
- 11. Eminent Historians in the 1930s: The Betrayal of Scientific History
- 12. The Commission of Inquiry into Historical Sites Related to Emperor Jinmu, 1940
- 13. Tsuda Sokichi (1873-1961): An Innocent on the Loose
- Epilogue: Historical Scholarship, Education, and Politics in Postwar Japan
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Illustrations
- Hayashi Razan (1583-1657)
- Arai Hakuseki (1657-1725)
- Ludwig Riess (1861-1928) and his wife Otsuka Fuku
- Shigeno Yasutsugu (1827-1910)
- Kume Kunitake (1839-1931), with an example of his calligraphy
- Mikami Sanji (1865-1939)
- Kuroita Katsumi (1874-1946)
- Tsuji Zennosuke (1877-1955)
- Hiraizumi Kiyoshi (1895-1984)
- Stamps from 1940 commemorating the 2,600th anniversary of the Japanese Empire
- Granite monument marking a historical site related to Emperor Jinmu
- Tsuda Sokichi (1873-1961)
- Two boys examine a textbook censored by the Ministry of Education