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Category: 幕末

Talks about the late Tokugawa period.

Cultural/English/Film/Foreign Views/General/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/大正/幕末/明治/昭和

Modern Japan in Anglophone Historical Fiction

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

ASPAC 2013 Jonathan Dresner Pittsburg State University “But writers of fiction do not stumble onto locales or times: they choose them and they use them to...

Books and Articles/English/Japan/Literature/Premodern/US-Japan/幕末/江戸

What do Samurai Have To Do With It?

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I saw Margi Preus’s Heart of a Samurai (Amulet, 2010) and the title alone made me cringe: just what the world needs, another kid book touting the putative...

Academia/Books and Articles/Film/Foreign Views/Japan/martial arts/Memory/Pedagogy/幕末/江戸

Turnbull Book on Ako

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Stephen Turnbull, one of the most prolific and controversial writers on Japanese military history, has written a book on the 47 Samurai incident. The Samurai Ar...

US-Japan/幕末/江戸

Aizawa Yasushi on America

Posted on February 23, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

In the Prefatory Remarks to Aizawa Yasushi‘s 1825 New Theses (新論) we find an interesting little gloss on the relationship of the “Divine Realm”...

Books and Articles/Cultural/General/Japan/Literature/Popular Culture/幕末/明治

The Teahouse Fire: Painstaking

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 6 Comments

I don’t often get unsolicited books with handwritten notes from the authors, unless I worked with them in some way. What was even more surprising is that ...

Academia/English/General/Historiography/Japan/Political/Politics/大正/幕末/明治/昭和

Marginalizing Discourses at ASPAC

Posted on July 3, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

For the conclusion to my ASPAC blogging, I want to talk about the panel which invited me to serve as moderator. It was a pleasure, and not just because three of...

Current/Recent Events/English/General/Historiography/Japan/US-Japan/War/幕末/昭和

Pearl Harbor and the longue duree

Posted on December 4, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

In honor of the 65th anniversary, HNN has a Pearl Harbor extravaganza this week. There’s a little recap, and the obligatory zombie error smackdown, which ...

Cultural/English/Gender/Japan/Literature/幕末/明治/江戸

Homosexuality in Japan: The Meiji Gap

Posted on February 10, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

The effects of Meiji reforms on women have been pretty well documented: the continued legality of prostitution, including indenture; the consolidation of male p...

Archives/Cultural/English/General/Japan/Libraries/Web Sites/幕末/明治/江戸

On-line Japanese history resources

Posted on January 10, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

While looking for a supplement to the anemic textbook offerings on Tokugawa Japan (none of the stuff is out of copyright, probably, which is why it’s not ...

Academia/Economic/English/General/Japan/幕末/明治

A Welcome Find

Posted on November 22, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 6 Comments

One of the very interesting things I discovered doing my dissertation was the relatively meager state of scholarship on Meiji era financial institutions, partic...

English/General/Japan/Political/Politics/大正/幕末/明治

Who’s On Top?

Posted on September 17, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

This came across the H-Japan wires, and I was intrigued by both the project itself and the immense time-wasting potential of listmaking, so I wrote to Ms. Kim a...

Academia/Art/Cultural/Education/English/General/Japan/Medieval/幕末

Fukuzawa on Education; Mongol Scrolls

Posted on April 21, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Reading over Fukuzawa’s Autobiography for class, I ran across a nice passage: However much we studied, our work and knowldge had practically no connection...

General/Japan/Medieval/Translation/幕末/明治

Restoration or Renovation?

Posted on February 21, 2005 by Nick Kapur / 8 Comments

I’ve always found it interesting how certain events in Japanese history have become indelibly associated with a canonical English translation that often h...

Cultural/English/General/Japan/幕末

Sondheim’s Perry?

Posted on December 2, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I had no idea: Stephen Sondheim (yes, I’m one of his many fans) wrote a musical about the arrival of Commodore Perry called Pacific Overtures. There’...

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