Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. — 325 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs 297). Towering over the Kanto Plain, the sacred mountain Ōyama (literally, “Big Mountain”) has loomed large over the religious landscape of early modern Japan. By the Edo period (1600–1868), the revered peak had undergone a transformation from secluded spiritual retreat to popular pilgrimage...
Routledge, 2019. — 221 p. Caste, a word normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely associated with Japan in contemporary scholarship. This has not always been the case, and the term was often used among earlier generations of scholars, who introduced the Buraku problem to Western audiences. Amos argues that time for reappraisal is well overdue and that a...
Routledge, 2019. — 217 p. The western Japanese city of Hagi is the town in Japan which has preserved the greatest level of Tokugawa period (1600-1868) urban and architectural fabric. As such it is a major tourist destination for both Japanese and non-Japanese visitors. The city is also very important historically in that it was the capital of the feudal daimyo domain – Chōshū –...
Harvard University Press, 2006. — 276 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-674-01521-0 Japan's modern international history began in 1858 with the signing of the "unequal" commercial treaty with the United States. Over the next fifteen years, Japanese diplomacy was reshaped to respond to the Western imperialist challenge. Negotiating with Imperialism is the first book to explain the emergence of...
Routledge, 1995. — 250 p. Reissue in paperback (with new Introduction) of the 1951 first classic analysis of the crucial years leading up to the Meiji restoration in which Britain provided Japan with its wealth and power model.
Brill, 2012. — 271 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 38). In the Edo period, Japan had its first experience of what one might call “intellectual life” in a pregnant sense of the word: a scene that combined serious intellectual pursuits, from poetry writing to the interpretation of the Confucian classics, with intense social interaction. Edo-period Japan was crisscrossed by...
Harper Collins, 2003. — 158 p. In 1853, few Japanese people knew that a country called America even existed. For centuries, Japan had isolated itself from the outside world by refusing to trade with other countries and even refusing to help shipwrecked sailors, foreign or Japanese. The country's people still lived under a feudal system like that of Europe in the Middle Ages. But...
Yale University Press, 2003. — 248 p. In this study, Harold Bolitho translates and analyzes some accounts written by three Japanese men of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries about the death of a loved one - testimonies which challenge the impression that the Japanese accepted their bereavements with nonchalance. The three journals were written by a young...
Oficinas graficas da tipografia mercantil, 1938. — 204 p. Supplementary to A Portuguese embassy to Japan (1644-1647), translated from an unique unpublished Portuguese manuscripts, and other contemporary sources," edited and translated by the author in 1928. Appendices I-V (p. 65-150) are Portuguese documents relating to the embassy (III and V also in English translation).
University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013. — 282 p. — ISBN 978-0-8248-3666-5 ( In this book Puck Brecher reinterprets the significance of Tokugawa-era eccentrics, offering a new perspective on them as historical figures. He argues that, although they were not political players, eccentrics were sources of artistic creativity and vehicles for the transmission of important sociocultural...
Hotei Publishing, 2005. — 272 p. Konoe Nobutada (1565-1614) was a famous calligrapher and head of a high-ranking aristocratic family. Nobutada's contributions to the art and culture, have frequently been overlooked, largely because of the common misperception that aristocrats were too outdated, impoverished and powerless to be worthy of discussion. Dismissed as Elegant Fossils...
Duke University Press, 2003. — 295 p. Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination of the late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our country.” Departing from earlier studies of kokugaku that focused on intellectuals whose...
Kodansha International, 1998. — 255 p. Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837-1913) became as emperor, was brought back from the secluded Imperial Palace in Kyoto, and "during a year of frenetic activity, he overhauled the military systems, reorganized the civil administration, promoted industrial development, and expanded foreign intercourse," and then capitulated to assure a peaceful transfer...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 81 p. On October 21, 1600, two massive Japanese armies, totaling an estimated 200,000 soldiers armed to the teeth with swords, yari (spears), arrows, muskets and cannons, faced off on a battlefield near the town of Sekigahara. A bitter fight to the death ensued, and the results would determine the course of Japanese history for the next 250...
Robinson Press, 2016. — 288 p. Jonathan Clement’s latest book focuses on the troubled arrival of Christianity to Japan, and the Shimabara Rebellion, an uprising of Catholic Christian peasants in 1637-1638. Japan’s early Christians were branded with hot irons, dipped repeatedly in boiling water and crucified in an attempt to stamp out the faith and its followers. In a...
London, UK : Robinson Press, 2016. — 288 p. Jonathan Clement’s latest book focuses on the troubled arrival of Christianity to Japan, and the Shimabara Rebellion, an uprising of Catholic Christian peasants in 1637-38. Japan’s early Christians were branded with hot irons, dipped repeatedly in boiling water and crucified in an attempt to stamp out the faith and its followers. In a...
GB: Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 290 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-07982-3 The translation of texts has played a formative role in Japan’s history of cultural exchange as well as the development of literature, and indigenous legal and religious systems. This is the first book of its kind, however, to offer a comprehensive survey of the role of translation in Japan during the...
Columbia University Press, 2014. — 352 p. The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process. This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. — 336 p. — (Harvard East Asian monographs 366). The Princess Nun tells the story of Bunchi (1619-1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of Enshōji. Bunchi advocated strict adherence to monastic precepts while devoting herself to the posthumous welfare of her family. As the first full-length biographical study of a premodern...
Hackett Publishing, 2012. — 216 p. In relating the story of his life on the island of Deshima and in the port of Yokohama during the late 1850s, Dutch merchant C. T. Assendelft de Coningh provides both an unprecedented eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and a unique perspective on the economic, military, and political forces the Western imperial...
University of California Press, 1965. — 457 p. The Japan accidentally discovered by the Europeans in 1543 was a country torn by internecene wars waged by independent barons who recognised no effective central government and were free to appropriate as many neighbouring fiefs as force of arms and treachery would permit. The Japan which deported the Europeans a century later was...
Harvard University Press, 1967. — 455 p. When Commodore Perry arrived in Japan to open the country to Western trade in 1853, he found a medieval amalgam of sword-bearing samurai, castle towns, Confucian academies, peasant villages, rice paddies, upstart merchants, bath houses, and Kabuki. Fifteen years later, Japan was on its way to becoming the only non-Western nation in the...
Routledge, 2020. — 202 p. — (Asian States and Empires 18). The East Asian War of 1592 to 1598 was the only extended war before modern times to involve Japan, Korea, and China. It devastated huge swathes of Korea and led to large population movements across borders. This book draws on surviving letters and diaries to recount the personal experiences of five individuals from...
Global Books, 2020. — 404 p. Throughout his academic career Louis Cullen's main research interest has been foreign trade - originally that of England, Ireland and France, but from the mid-1990s, his focus turned to Japanese history resulting in his critically acclaimed A history of Japan 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds. Subsequently, he concentrated on the analysis of...
Brill, 2019. — 608 p. — (Studies in Global Slavery 7). In The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves Lucio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan. Using the Portuguese mercantile networks, de Sousa reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg...
Routledge, 2010. — 346 p. This careful and important study of the development of the varied types of education in the last two and a half centuries of feudalism in Japan under the Tokugawa dictatorship (1600–1868) is more than a history of premodern education. It is also an intellectual history and a history of the educational philosophy of the writers of that period. Basing...
Tuttle Publishing, 2012. — 203 p. Everyday Life in Traditional Japan paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided and the daily life of the different classes consolidated the traditions that shaped modern Japan. With detailed descriptions and over 100 illustrations, authentic samurai, farmers, craftsmen,...
University of Washington Press, 1964. — 270 p. This study attempts to explain the development of Tokugawa-period political attitudes, as shown in the writings of the major thinkers of the time and as exemplified in the life of a nineteenth-century samurai. Emphasis is placed on attitudes toward emperor and nation, a subject that also involved the role of the Bakufu, or Tokugawa...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 368 p. 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,...
New York, NY: Smithsonian Books, 2006. — 416 p. — ISBN13: 978-0060884321. On July 14, 1853, the four warships of America's East Asia Squadron made for Kurihama, 30 miles south of the Japanese capital, then called Edo. It had come to pry open Japan after her two and a half centuries of isolation and nearly a decade of intense planning by Matthew Perry, the squadron commander....
Harper Collins, 2006. — 389 p. In Breaking Open Japan, George Feifer brings the drama to life as never before. At its heart were two formidable men who in many ways embodied their very different societies: thrusting Commodore Perry and genial, manipulative Lord Masahiro Abe, who as the head of the Shogun's advisory council was Japan's real decision maker and political...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 270 pp. What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything—it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time , Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in Japan to show that humans perceive time as constructed and concrete. In the...
Frontline Books, 2021. — 216 p. Sekigahara was the greatest samurai battle in history. Japan had long been at civil war until brought under the rule of Oda Nobunaga, and then, following his death at the hands of a traitorous general, that of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It was Hideyoshi who completed the unification of Japan and ushered in a period of peace. After Hideyoshi’s death in...
Frontline Books, 2021. — 216 p. Sekigahara was the greatest samurai battle in history. Japan had long been at civil war until brought under the rule of Oda Nobunaga, and then, following his death at the hands of a traitorous general, that of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It was Hideyoshi who completed the unification of Japan and ushered in a period of peace. After Hideyoshi’s death in...
Frontline Books, 2022. — 272 p. Todo Takatora lived a life that unfolds like a drama. Born to a small landholding samurai family, the maverick youth worked his way to the top, becoming one of the most successful of daimyo warlords. He had served on the front lines of some of the most violent of battles, turning points that forged the nation. In a land and time in which loyalty...
Frontline Books, 2022. — 272 p. Todo Takatora lived a life that unfolds like a drama. Born to a small landholding samurai family, the maverick youth worked his way to the top, becoming one of the most successful of daimyo warlords. He had served on the front lines of some of the most violent of battles, turning points that forged the nation. In a land and time in which loyalty...
Routledge, 2000. — 312 p. This is the history of Dutch influence on Japan during the so-called 'closed centuries' between 1640 and 1853. Dutch maritime traders provided the only commercial link which Japan maintained with the west, and were thus the sole channel for western ideas and knowledge to reach neo-Confucian society. Professor Goodman explains the circumstances of the...
Brill, 2010. — 298 p. — (Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900, 1). This volume explores early-modern formations of economic thought and policy in a country widely regarded as having followed a unique, non-Western path to capitalism. In discussing such topics as money and the state, freedom and control, national interest ideology, shogunal politics and networks,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 396 p. 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...
Brill, 2017. — 340 p. — (East and West 2). In World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historic role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk. Founded in 1571 as the terminal port of the Portuguese Macau ships, Nagasaki served as Japan's window to the world over long time and...
University of California Press, 2021. — 264 p. Articles crafted from lacquer, silk, cotton, paper, ceramics, and iron were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and their facture was a matter of serious concern among makers and consumers alike. In this innovative study, Christine M. E. Guth offers a...
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), 2021. — 680 p. — ISBN 978-4-86658-148-4 The nearly three centuries of Tokugawa rule are generally known in Japan as the “Edo period,” since Edo was then the nation’s capital; I, however, prefer “Tokugawa period.” In English, the phrase “Edo Japan” is confusing, consisting as it does of consecutive place names. Perhaps for...
Princeton University Press, 1970. — 400 p. This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. The Tokugawa Period has long been seen as one of Eastern feudalism, awaiting the breakthrough that came with the Meiji enlightenment and the opening of Japan to the West. The general thrust of...
University of Chicago Press, 1989. — 507 p. This long-awaited work explores the place of kokugaku (rendered here as "nativism") during Japan's Tokugawa period. Kokugaku, the sense of a distinct and sacred Japanese identity, appeared in the eighteenth century in reaction to the pervasive influence of Chinese culture on Japan. Against this influence, nativists sought a Japanese...
University of California Press, 1991. — 435 p. H.D. Harootunian has provided a new preface for the paperback edition of his classic study Toward Restoration, the first intellectual history of the Meiji Restoration in English. Preface: The Space of Restoration I. Introduction II. Nlito and the Establishment of a Tradition of Discourse III. The Action of Culture: Sakuma Shozan...
Harvard University Press, 2010. — 311 p. Presenting fresh insights on the internal dynamics and global contexts that shaped foreign relations in early modern Japan, Robert I. Hellyer challenges the still largely accepted wisdom that the Tokugawa shogunate, guided by an ideology of seclusion, stifled intercourse with the outside world, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth...
University of Hawaii Press, 2001. — 234 p. On July 29, 1643, ten crew members of the Dutch yacht Breskens were lured ashore at Nambu in northern Japan. Once out of view of their ship, the men were bound and taken to the shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, in Edo, where they remained imprisoned for four months. Later the Japanese government forced the Dutch East India Company...
Tuttle Publishing, 2011. — 256 p. "Shinsengumi: The Shogun's last Samurai Corps" is the true story of the notorious samurai corps formed in 1863 to arrest or kill the enemies of the Tokugawa Shogun. The only book in English about the Shinsengumi, it focuses on the corps' two charismatic leaders, Kondo Isami and Hijikata Toshizo, both impeccable swordsmen. It is a history–in–brief...
Tuttle Publishing, 2021. — 256 p. The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps tells the thrilling story of the Shinsengumi - the legendary corps of Samurai warriors tasked with keeping order in Kyoto during the final chaotic years of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600–1868). - This book recounts the fascinating tales of political intrigue, murder and mayhem surrounding the fearsome Shinsengumi,...
Tuttle Publishing, 2021. — 255 p. The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps tells the thrilling story of the Shinsengumi - the legendary corps of Samurai warriors tasked with keeping order in Kyoto during the final chaotic years of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600–1868). - This book recounts the fascinating tales of political intrigue, murder and mayhem surrounding the fearsome Shinsengumi,...
Springer Singapore, 2019. — 233 p. This book demonstrates that during Japan’s early modern Edo period (1603–1868) an ethical code existed among the merchant class comparable to that of the well-known Bushido. There is compelling evidence that contemporary merchants, who were widely and openly despised as immoral by the samurai, in fact acted in highly ethical ways in accordance...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2000. — 320 p. — (Harvard East Asian monographs 185). The unique amalgam of prayer and play at the Sensōji temple in Edo is often cited as proof of the “degenerate Buddhism” of the Tokugawa period. This investigation of the economy and cultural politics of Sensōji, however, shows that its culture of prayer and play reflected changes taking place...
Yale University Press, 1998. — 256 p. This unique history of Japanese armed martial arts--the only comprehensive treatment of the subject in English--focuses on traditions of swordsmanship and archery from ancient times to the present. G. Cameron Hurst III provides an overview of martial arts in Japanese history and culture, then closely examines the transformation of these...
Schalow P.G. (Translator). — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. — 371 p. The first complete translation of Nanshoku okagami by Ihara Saikaku (1642-93), this is a collection of 40 stories describing homosexual love affairs between samurai men and boys and between young kabuki actors and their middle-class patrons. Seventeenth-century Kyoto was the center of a flourishing...
Tokyo: 1910. — 234 p. By with numerous illustrations. The object of the present work is to give a concise account of the life we lead at home in Tokyo. I am aware that there are already many excellent works on Japan which may be read with great profit; but as their authors are most of them Europeans or Americans, and naturally look at Japanese life and civilisation from an...
University of Hawaii Press, 1999. — 545 p. Engelbert Kaempfer's work was a best-seller from the moment it was published in London in 1727 and remains one of the most valuable sources for historians of the Tokugawa period. The narrative describes what no Japanese was permitted to record (the details of the shogun's castle, for example) and what no Japanese thought worthy of...
Praha: František Šimáček, 1904. — 48 p. Zeměpisný a historický popis Japonska s bohatými ilustracemi a srozumitelným podáním. Pro poznání této tajemné země je třeba věděti, že ještě po polovině 19. století patřila k poměrně zaostalým zemědělským a feudálním zemím, avšak v 60. létech 19. století císař poznenáhlu nastartoval nečekaný rozvoj zasahující do všech oblastí života Japonců.
London: G. Newnes, 1905. — 234 p. Our neighbours on the west, separated from us by the widest ocean, are separated from us also most completely by race, environment, and history. It becomes an axiom, repeated by travellers and enforced by scholars, that the Occidental cannot understand the Oriental. How, then, shall we of the West understand the farthest East? The current...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 304 p. This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the Tokugawa...
University of Arizona Press, 1991. — 198 p. A series of picaresque adventures set against the backdrop of a Japan still closed off from the rest of the world, "Musui's Story" recounts the escapades of samurai Katsu Kokichi. As it depicts Katsu stealing, brawling, indulging in the pleasure quarters, and getting the better of authorities, it also provides a refreshing perspective...
University of California Press, 1987. — 204 p. Rectification and Myth. The National Essence. Reform as Representation. Recruitment of Commoners. Ritual and Action in the Tengu Insurrection. Coda: Mito Ideology as Text.
Floating World Editions, 2012. — 90 p. The medieval era of Japan was marked by a century of civil strife known as the Warring States period (1469-1573). The century prior had seen the sword replace the bow and arrow as the chief weapon of the samurai, thus setting the stage for this golden age of Japanese swordsmanship. Every man who called himself a warrior pledged his...
Floating World Editions, 2012. — 96 p. After more than two centuries of civil strife Japan was finding its way back to peace and order during the Period of Unification (1573-1615). The final drive came in the fall of 1600, when the massed eastern and western warlords faced each other in the decisive Battle of Sekigahara, in which every man who called himself a warrior faced the...
Floating World Editions, 2012. — 99 p. After more than two centuries of civil strife Japan was finding its way back to peace and order during the Period of Unification (1573-1615). The final drive came in the fall of 1600, when the massed eastern and western warlords faced each other in the decisive Battle of Sekigahara, in which every man who called himself a warrior faced the...
Bloomsbury, 2021. — 185 p. Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state. The book reveals how formal and informal gift exchange also created a smooth working relationship...
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1995. - 355 p.
It is no secret to any careful student of Japanese society in the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) that during these two and a half centuries male homosexual behavior was extremely common, at least in towns and cities. Sex between males was not only widely tolerated among the articulate classes but...
University of California Press, 1997. — 310 p. Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the subject, and until now none have satisfactorily explained the origins of the tradition or elucidated how its conventions reflected class structure and gender roles. Gary P....
Princeton University Press, 1994. — 251 p. This book is a much needed book for anybody interested in Japanese history. It gives a very detailed account of the policies of the ruling class while at the same time showing the development of the large cities and their free labour market. It shows that Japan already had a large urban working class before the morden period. The author...
Routledge, 2021. — 1198 p. With over 60 contributions, The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope. In its early modern period, under the Tokugawa shoguns, Japan was a world apart. For over two centuries the shogun’s subjects were forbidden to travel...
London and New York. Routledge, 2003. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0-203-98732-2 В книге исследуется взаимное восприятие японцев и корейцев в 1600-1900 гг., которое складывалось на основе пограничных контактов. В досовременную эпоху подобные связи, как считает автор, были не менее важны для формирования образа другого этноса чем книжные произведения интеллектуалов, создававшиеся в...
Honolulu. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. — 234 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-8248-3036-6 Линдсей У. Фертильность и удовольствие: ритуал и сексуальные ценности в Японии периода Токугава. В книге изучены сексуальные ценности Японии периода Токугава, в частности, рассказывается о трех «веселых» кварталах в Эдо, Киото и Осака, являвшихся центрами проституции, которую пыталось...
M.E. Sharpe, 1996. — 322 p. An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this two volume book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings through 1995. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers...
Columbia University Press, 2021. — 368 p. In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 392 p. — (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute) Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the world, developed into a system...
Princeton University Press, 1989. — 415 p. A comprehensive study of changing political thought during the Tokugawa period, the book traces the philosophical roots of Japanese modernization. Professor Maruyama describes the role of Sorai Confucianism and Norinaga Shintoism in breaking the stagnant confines of Chu Hsi Confucianism, the underlying political philosophy of the...
Ashgate Publishing, 2012. — 504 p. In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost exclusively one way: Europeans going to Japan. This book is an account of their travels, their long journeys out and back, and the 20...
Cornell University Press, 1999. — 295 p. Specialists here share a wealth of material new to English-language scholarship. Their contributions explore such subjects as the early growth and development of the city, the geography of wealth and power in the seventeenth century, political dissidence, the theater, gang violence, and Osaka's religious and intellectual life. One of the...
Harvard University Press, 2005. — 317 p. Kokugaku, or nativism, was one of the most important intellectual movements from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century in Japan, and its worldview continues to be influential today. This scholarly endeavor represented an attempt to use Japanese antiquity to revitalize what many saw as a society in decline. One important figure...
Global Oriental, 2006. — 505 p. Sub-titled A comparative study of the American, British, Dutch and Russian naval expeditions to compel the Tokugawa shogunate to conclude treaties and open ports to their ships, this highly informed and widely researched study provides for the first time a more complete picture of the competition and cooperation, distrust and open hostility of...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. — 352 p. An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan William Adams, by the acclaimed author of "Nathaniel Us Nutmeg. Samurai William" is the fascinating story of a clash of two cultures, and of the enormous impact one Westerner had on the opening of the East.
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 408 p. In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the "pernicious creed" of Christianity. Middle-aged widows, the women made a living as mediums, healers, and fortune-tellers. Two of the men dabbled in divination; the third...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013. — xx, 292 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 41). Suzuki Bokushi (1770-1842) was an elite villager in Echigo, a snowy province of Japan. Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society presents a vivid picture of the life and world of this rural commoner, focusing on his interaction with the changing social and cultural environment of the late Tokugawa...
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, 1926. — 823 p. First published in 1903, this three volume set deals with the history of Japan from its origins to the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Drawing for the first time on Japanese, European and Latin sources, this classic text was the first comprehensive study of Japanese history in English, contributing to an understanding of...
Harvard University Press, 1988. — 400 p. Arai Hakuseki, advisor to the sixth and seventh Tokugawa shogun, played an important role in politics between 1709 and 1716, during an era of large changes in the bakufu. He participated in major policy decisions on currency, foreign trade, and local administration, while simultaneously trying to enhance the shogun's authority both...
University of Tokyo Press, 1990. — 248 p. The Tokugawa period brought 250 years of stability to Japan. The shogun had national authority & the daimyo had regional authority. This represented a new unity in the feudal structure, with increasingly large bureaucracy to administer the centralized & decentralized authorities. The Tokugawa became more powerful during their first...
University of Hawaii Press, 2015. — 282 p. The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko is the story of a self-described "base-born nobody" who tried to change the course of Japanese history. Kurosawa Tokiko (1806–1890), a commoner from rural Mito domain, was a poet, teacher, Oracle, and political activist. In 1859 she embraced the xenophobic loyalist faction (known for the motto...
State University of New York Press, 2019. — 288 p. While current scholarship on Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) tends to see China as either a model or the Other, Wai-ming Ng's pioneering and ambitious study offers a new perspective by suggesting that Chinese culture also functioned as a collection of cultural building blocks that were selectively introduced and then modified to fit...
University of Hawaii Press, 2000. — 277 p. This pioneering study uses the I Ching (Book of Changes) to investigate the role of Chinese learning in the development of thought and culture in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868). I Ching scholarship reached its apex during the Tokugawa, becoming one of the most popular and influential texts among Japanese intellectuals. It penetrated into...
University of Hawaii Press, 1997. — 320 p. Nishiyama Matsunosuke is one of the most important historians of Tokugawa (Edo) popular culture, yet until now his work has never been translated into a Western language. Edo Culture presents a selection of Nishiyama’s writings that serves not only to provide an excellent introduction to Tokugawa cultural history but also to fill many...
Shambhala, 2014. — 145 p. — (Shambhala Library). — ISBN: 1-59030-290-7, 978-0-8348-2355-6. There are eight virtues of Bushido, the code of the samurai: justice, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty, and self-control. These virtues comprise the essence of Japanese cultural beliefs, which are still present today. Inazo Nitobe, one of Japan's most respected...
Brill, 2015. — 392 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 52). The chapters in this volume use diverse methodologies to challenge a number of long-standing assumptions regarding the principal contours of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese society, especially regarding values, social hierarchy, state authority, and the construction and spread of identity.
University of California Press, 1996. — xviii + 425 p. Tokugawa Village Practice maps the contours of Tokugawa Japan's juridical field by examining relations of power from the standpoint of social and institutional practice at the village level. A significant addition to the literature on Tokugawa Japan, Herman Ooms' study takes old issues, such as the degree to which Tokugawa...
Princeton University Press, 1989. — 365 p. The description for this book, Tokugawa Ideology, will be forthcoming. One. Introduction: Beginnings Two. Trajectory of a Discourse: Transfiguring Warlord Power into Sacred Authority Three. Trajectory of a Discourse: Systemic Sacralization and Genesis Amnesia Four. Disseminators of Ruling Ideas: Monks, Laws, Bestsellers Five....
Institute of East Asian Studies, 2022. — 217 p. This book collects twenty-three original, handwritten Japanese letters from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and provides transcriptions, translations, and essay commentaries for each. In addition, introductory essays contextualize such letter writing in the politics of the period, the cultural trends of the day, the value...
University of Hawaii Press, 2015. — 240 p. — ISBN 978-0-8248-5157-6 In Spectacular Accumulation, Morgan Pitelka investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties...
Harvard University Press, 2004. — 352 p. Soon after overthrowing the Tokugawa government in 1868, the new Meiji leaders devised ambitious plans to build a modern nation-state. Among the earliest and most radical of the Meiji reforms was a plan for a centralized, compulsory educational system modeled after those in Europe and America. Meiji leaders hoped that schools would curb...
Fonthill Media, 2020. — 224 p. For over two centuries Japan had been hidden behind a veil of seclusion. This changed in when Commodore Perry arrived in 1853. Unsurprisingly for a world power, Britain was fast to get in on the action. But unknown to the intruders their sudden appearance had accelerated the pace of political change in Japan. The newcomers found themselves...
Stanford University Press, 1999. — 294 p. In 1785 Uesugi Harunori, the daimyo of Yonezawa, marked the occasion of his retirement with a short epistle on statecraft. Written for his heir, Norihiro, it was intended as a father’s advice on ruling the domain and sought to address the central questions of governance: how and why should daimyo rule? The state (kokka) is inherited...
University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012. — 280 р. — ISBN 978-0-8248-3513-2 Performing the Great Peace offers a cultural approach to understanding the politics of the Tokugawa period, at the same time deconstructing some of the assumptions of modern national historiographies. Deploying the political terms uchi (inside), omote (ritual interface), and naisho (informal negotiation)―all...
Columbia University Press, 2012. — 280 p. Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was an imperial concubine named Nakanoin Nakako,...
Princeton University Press, 1988. — 500 p. In this book social scientists scrutinize the middle decades of the nineteenth century in Japan. That scrutiny is important and overdue, for the period from the 1850s to the 1880s has usually been treated in terms of politics and foreign relations. Yet those decades were also of pivotal importance in Japan's institutional...
Tuttle Publishing, 2022. — 416 p. Uncover the true story of the man who unified medieval Japan. For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war against one another incessantly. Shogun tells the fascinating story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who finally unified and brought lasting peace to the nation. He established a new central government which enabled his...
Routledge, 2010. — 426 p. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) founded a dynasty of rulers, organized a system of government and set in train the re-orientation of the religion of Japan so that he would take the premier place in it. Calm, capable and entirely fearless, Ieyasu deliberately brought the opposition to a head and crushed in a decisive battle, after which he made himself...
Routledge, 2010. — 426 p. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) founded a dynasty of rulers, organized a system of government and set in train the re-orientation of the religion of Japan so that he would take the premier place in it. Calm, capable and entirely fearless, Ieyasu deliberately brought the opposition to a head and crushed in a decisive battle, after which he made himself Shogun,...
Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2023. — 216 p. — (Translation History). This book introduces English-speaking audiences to tsūji, who were interpreters in different contexts in Japan and then the Ryukyu Kingdom from the late 16th to the mid-19th century. It comprises seven historical case studies on tsūji in which contributors adopt a context-oriented approach. They aim to explore...
Stanford University Press, 1963. — 288 p. A History of Japan: 1615-1867 describes the political and social development of Japan during the two and half centuries of rule by the Tokugawa Shoguns, a period of remarkable development in almost ever aspects of the national life. Under Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa Shogun, a system of checks and balances to keep the great feudatories in...
New York. Routledge, 2006. - 288 p. ISBN: 0–700–71720–X Исаак Тицинг был главой японской фактории голландской Вест-Индской компании с 1779 по 1784 гг., дважды его принимал в Эдо сёгун Токугава Иэхару, он наладил связи со многими чиновниками бакуфу. Тицинг был купцом, получившим классическое образование и подготовку врача, побывал во многих странах Юго-Восточной Азии. В книгу...
Routledge, 2005. — 289 p. Isaac Titsingh was intermittently head of the Japan factory (trading station) of the Dutch East India Company in 1780-1794. He was a career merchant, but unusual in having a classical education and training as a physician. His impact in Japan was enormous, but he left disappointed in the ability of the country to embrace change. After many years in...
Routledge, 2002. — 330 p. — ISBN 13: 978-0-7007-1573-2 This work, I hope, is not an ordinary history of art: it is not a history of ordinary art. We are to be concerned with things that were viewed only lightly in their own time. The project demands re-trieval of what seemed fruitless or trivial in its own day, from popular storybooks to fairground goods to brothel memorabilia....
London: Reaktion Books, 2020. — 241 p. — ISBN 978 1 78914 233 4. Tokyo today is one of the world’s mega-cities and the center of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture—but not everyone is aware of its past. Founded in 1590 as the seat of the warlord Tokugawa family, Tokyo, then called Edo, was the locus of Japanese trade, economics, and urban civilization until 1868, when it...
Lexington Books, 2022. — 192 p. This study is an unique approach to social and cultural history of Japan through the scope of food and food ways. In this book-length study of food markets in the early modern Japanese capital of Edo, Akira Shimizu draws a fascinating picture of early modern Japanese society where specialty foods—seasonal, regional, and hard-to-find delicacies...
Routledge, 1998. — 378 p. Академическое подробное исследование структуры, состояния и развития всех отраслей японской экономики в период правления династии Токугава (с 1600 по 1868). Особое внимание автор уделяет аграрной и текстильной отраслям экономики Японии исследуемого периода. Отдельный раздел книги рассматривает начальные этапы индустриализации страны в конце правления рода...
Scribner, 2020. — 352 p. A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected...
Lexington Books, 2022. — 264 p. This book examines early modern Mito, today an ordinary provincial capital on the outskirts of the Tokyo commuter belt, but once the headquarters of Mito Domain, one of the most consequential places in all of Japan. As one of just three senior branches of the Tokugawa family—which ruled over Japan for 260 years—Mito’s ruling family enjoyed...
Princeton University Press, 1984. — 346 p. Although now "well seasoned," Toby's book is an excellent account of the Tokugawa's relationships with Korea, the Ryukyu Kingdom, and China during the Tokugawa period. The Ryukyu section is particularly useful given the dearth of literature in English on the subject. In general, I liked this book because Toby displays a lot of...
The University of Alberta Press, 1989. — 262 р. — ISBN 0-88864-149-4 THE PROJECT OF TRANSLATING Tokutomi Soho's The Future Japan began more than ten years ago in Toronto when Vinh Sinh, while writing his doctoral dissertation on Soho, worked on it, in a casual fashion, with Robert O. Lee. In between their discussions on Japanese culture and history, they translated the first...
Harvard University Press, 1988. — 374 p. The author shows that this Tokugawa (Edo) regime (from 1600) was more responsive to most political situations and concludes that the Bakufu's ability to survive over the centuries was aided rather than harmed by both formal and informal changes enabling it to convert peacefully and effectively from a warrior.
Heian, 1983. — 221 p. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543 – 1616) (born Matsudaira Takechiyo) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The son of a minor daimyo, Ieyasu once lived as a...
University of Hawaii Press, 1980. — 612 p. Conrad Davis Totman (born January 5, 1934) is an American historian, academic, writer, translator and Japanologist. Totman was a Professor Emeritus at Yale University. Totman taught Japanese history at the University of California at Santa Barbara, at Northwestern University, and Yale. He retired from Yale in 1997. Totman's published...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. — 322 p. — (Harvard East Asian monographs 422). Landscape has always played a vital role in shaping Japan’s cultural identity. Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras used specific features and aspects of the landscape to represent their idea of Japan and produce a narrative of Japan as a cultural...
University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2018. — 290 p. — ISBN: 9780824876449 Can an imperial city survive, let alone thrive, without an emperor? Alice Y. Tseng answers this intriguing question in Modern Kyoto, a comprehensive study of the architectural and urban projects carried out in the old capital following Emperor Meiji’s move to Tokyo in 1868. Tseng contends that Kyoto―from the time...
Harvard University Press, 1967. — 239 p. The Tokugawa Regime. The Origins and Development of the Sankin Kōtai. Structure and Operation of the System. The Economic Effects of the Sankin Kōtai. Contemporary Critiques of the System. The End of the System. Appendix: Table of Daimyo Han as of 1862. Notes.
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 64 p. — (Osprey Raid). — ISBN: 978 1 84603 442 8
Тёрнбулл С. Самураи берут в плен короля. Окинава, год 1609.
Книга рассказывает о вторжении войск княжества Сацума в 1609 г. в королевство Рюкю, организованном даймё Симадзу Иэхиса. В результате блестяще проведенной военной операции король Рюкю был взят в плен, а его владения оказались в вассальной...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 128 p. In 1587 the 1,000-strong garrison of tiny Tanaka Castle in Higo Province (modern Kumamoto Prefecture) on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, held out for 100 days against an army ten times their size sent by the great general Toyotomi Hideyoshi. When the castle fell it was burned to the ground, and for four centuries the epic struggle lived on...
Greenwood Publishing, 2012. — 272 p. 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...
ABC-CLIO, 2019 — 457 p. The samurai were an aristocratic class of warriors who imposed and maintained peace in Japan for more than two centuries during the Tokugawa or Edo period, 1603–1868. While they maintained a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, as a result of the peace the samurai themselves were transformed over time into an educated, cultured elite—one that...
Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2008. — 318 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8248-3205-6 Книга рассказывает о системе санкин-кота й, с помощью которых сёгуны Токугава контролировали князей (даймё), в контексте культуры Японии 17-19 веков. Система санкин-котай предполагала обязательную периодическую явку провинциальных правителей со свитой и слугами для службы сёгуну в столицу. Beginnings...
University of California Press, 1986. — 197 p. The Japanese peasant has been thought of as an obedient and passive subject of the feudal ruling class. Yet Tokugawa villagers frequently engaged in unlawful and disruptive protests. Moreover, the frequency and intensity of the peasants' collective action increased markedly at the end of the Tokugawa period. Stephen Vlastos's...
Harvard University Press, 1986. — 350 p. This study analyzes New Theses (Shinron), by Aizawa Seishisai (1781-1863), and its contribution to Japanese political thought and policy during the early-modern era. New Theses is found to be indispensable to our understanding of Japan's transformation from a feudal to a modern state. Focusing on Aizawa, Wakabayashi traces the...
Routledge, 2009. — 421 p. Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, which up to now has paid little or no attention to the experience of women. Focusing on the century between the introduction of Christianity in Japan by Portuguese Jesuit...
Routledge, 2016. — 421 p. Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, which up to now has paid little or no attention to the experience of women. Focusing on the century between the introduction of Christianity in Japan by Portuguese Jesuit...
Princeton University Press, 2004. — 256 p. Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, contemplating nothingness. This book presents the "other side of Zen," by examining the movement's explosive growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) in Japan and by shedding light on the broader Japanese religious...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 257 p. Defensive Positions focuses on the role of regional domains in early modern Japan's coastal defense, shedding new light on this system's development. This examination, in turn, has significant long-term political implications for the involvement of those domains in Tokugawa state formation. Noell Wilson argues that domainal autonomy in...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 228 p. With Commodore Perry to Japan offers a personal account of Commodore Matthew Galbraith Perry's expedition to Japan through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old purser's clerk of the USS Mississippi. The documentary edition, endorsed by the National Historic Publications & Records Commission, provides excellent coverage of both the political...
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University Of California Press, 2003. — 249 p. — ISBN: 0–520–23269–0 Ёнэмото М. Картографируя раннюю современную Японию: пространство, место и культура в период Токугава (1603-1868). В книге изучаются представления японцев эпохи Токугава о географии своей страны на основе не только сохранившихся официальных карт, но и описаний путешествий и других...
Перевод, вступ, ст. и коммент. В. Н. Горегляда. Ответственный редактор К.Г. Маранджян. — СПб.: Гиперион, 2009. — 392 с. — ISBN 978-5-89332-155-5. Рукопись "Канкай ибун" ("Удивительные сведения об окружающих (Землю) морях") представляет собой обработанные чиновниками сегуната записи допросов четырех японских моряков, прибитых кораблекрушением к российским берегам и возвращенных...
Перевод, вступ. статья и коммент. В. Н. Горегляда. Ответственный редактор К.Г. Маранджян. — СПб.: Гиперион, 2009. — 392 с. Рукопись "Канкай ибун" ("Удивительные сведения об окружающих (Землю) морях") представляет собой обработанные чиновниками сегуната записи допросов четырех японских моряков, прибитых кораблекрушением к российским берегам и возвращенных в Японию российским...
М.: Издательство восточной литературы, 1963. - 200 с.
Книга А.Л. Гальперина будет хорошим дополнением к работе его ученицы Н.Ф. Лещенко, посвященной также истории Японии периода Токугава. В книге рассматривается завершение объединения Японии при Тоётоми Хидэёси и Токугава Иэясу, курс сёгуната Токугава на «закрытие страны», крестьянские восстания, социально-политические...
Санкт-Петербург: Морская типография, 1816. — 690 с. Головнин исследует острова Курильской гряды. «Цепь или гряду островов, лежащих между южным мысом Камчатки и Японией, Курильскими островами, наименовали русские, — писал Головнин, — ибо, увидев с Камчатского берега дымящиеся на сих островах сопки, они назвали их Курилы, от слова курящиеся». 4 июля 1811 г., при съемке южной...
М.: Муравей, 1997. — 272 с. — ISBN: 5-88739-029-8 Почти два с половиной столетия Япония была закрыта от внешнего мира. Под властью сегунов Токугава общество было разделено на четыре сословия: самураи (хорошо известные читателю по изданномув России роману Д. Клавела "Сёгун"), крестьяне, ремесленники, купцы и торговцы. В этой книге вы найдете подробное увлекательное описание...
Пер. с англ. О.Д. Сидоровой. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 222 с. — (Быт. Религия. Культура). — ISBN 5-9524-2473-2. В этой книге представлен быт Эдо – столицы Японии во времена сегунов из рода Токугава; рассказывается о религиозных обрядах, буддийских и синтоистских святилищах; развернута увлекательная картина повседневной жизни представителей разных сословий.
Пер. с англ. О.Д. Сидоровой. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 222 с. — (Быт. Религия. Культура). — ISBN: 5-9524-2473-2. В этой книге представлен быт Эдо - столицы Японии во времена сёгунов из рода Токугава; рассказывается о религиозных обрядах, буддийских и синтоистских святилищах; развернута увлекательная картина повседневной жизни представителей разных сословий.
Перевод, предисловие и приложения О. С. Николаевой. — М.: Наука, ГРВЛ, 1966. — 151 с. — (Памятники письменности Востока VIII, 1). Система пятидворок (гониягуми) представляла собой организацию крестьян из пяти, а иногда и более соседних домов, создаваемую внутри деревенской обшины по приказу правительства и связанную круговой порукой. В Японии пятидворки возникли еше в половине...
Типография А.Дмитриева, 1854. - 325 с.
Зибольд, Филипп Франц фон — по происхождению немец, знаменитый путешественник, исследователь Японии.
Экспедиция голландской компании, в составе которой был Зибольд, прибыла 11 августа 1823 г. в голландскую торговую факторию, расположенную на острове Десима. Здесь Зибольд провел более шести лет, преимущественно вблизи г. Нагасаки.
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Перевод В. М. Строева. — Санкт-Петербург: Издание А.А. Плюшара в типографии А. Дмитриева, 1854. — 1087 с. Дополненное сведениями и известиями из Кемпфера, Фишера, Дёфа, Шарльвуа, графа Гогендорна, Крузенштерна, Тунберга, Титсинга, Варениуса и др. Том 1. Переезд из Батавии в Японию. Географическая и статистическая картина острова Банка. Необходимые общие сведения. Политическое...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1972. — 208 с. В книге американского ученого Дональда Кина рассказывается о Японии XVIII и начала XIX вв. Автор приводит интересный материал о контактах японцев с европейцами, знакомстве их с европейской культурой и отдельными отраслями науки, о влиянии этого знакомства на быт, религию, философию, искусство, на развитие в Японии...
М.: Крафт+, 2010. — 352 с. — ISBN: 978-5-93675-170-7. Эпоха Токугава давно заслуживает специальной монографии, поскольку в ней следует искать ключ к пониманию причин процветания современной Японии. Это было время зарождения рыночной экономики, что, в свою очередь, привело к переменам в образе жизни всех слоев японского общества. Монография представляет собою рассказ об этом...
М.: Крафт+, 2010. — 352 с. — ISBN: 978-5-93675-170-7. Эпоха Токугава давно заслуживает специальной монографии, поскольку в ней следует искать ключ к пониманию причин процветания современной Японии. Это было время зарождения рыночной экономики, что, в свою очередь, привело к переменам в образе жизни всех слоев японского общества. Монография представляет собою рассказ об этом...
Москва: Крафт+, 2010. — 352 с. — ISBN: 978-5-93675-170-7. Эпоха Токугава давно заслуживает специальной монографии, поскольку в ней следует искать ключ к пониманию причин процветания современной Японии. Это было время зарождения рыночной экономики, что, в свою очередь, привело к переменам в образе жизни всех слоев японского общества. Монография представляет собою рассказ об этом...
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1988. — 186 с. Монография посвящена исследованию жизни и творчества одного из крупнейших мыслителей Японии эпохи Токугава. Учение представителя школы «национальных наук» Мотоори Норинага анализируется на фоне развития общественной мысли Японии 17-18 вв. Он показан как филолог, исследователь древнейшего письменного памятника...
Тетрадь восьмая. Словарь. Издание текста и предисловие В. Н. Горегляда. — М.: Издательство восточной литературы, 1961. — 29 с. + 38 с. вост. паг. — (Памятники литературы народов Востока. Тексты. Большая серия XVI). Тетрадь рукописи «Канкай ибун» представляет собой один из первых в мире японо-русских словарей. Он составлен по тематическому принципу. В основу словаря легли...
М.: Изд-во восточной литературы ИВЛ, 1960. — 278 с. В книге рассматривается крестьянское движение в контексте социально-экономического и политического развития Японии периода Токугава. Описывается положение японского крестьянства после его закрепощения, начатого Тоётоми Хидэёси и завершенного сёгунами Токугава. В приложении опубликованы впервые переведенные на русский язык...
М.: Изд-во восточной литературы (ИВЛ), 1960. — 278 с. В книге рассматривается крестьянское движение в контексте социально-экономического и политического развития Японии периода Токугава. Описывается положение японского крестьянства после его закрепощения, начатого Тоётоми Хидэёси и завершенного сёгунами Токугава. В приложении опубликованы впервые переведенные на русский язык...
М.: АСТ, 2012. — 528 с. — ISBN 978-5-271-43462-4. Период Токугава (1603–1867 гг.) во многом определил стремительный экономический взлет Японии и нынешний ее триумф, своеобразие культуры и представлений ее жителей, так удивлявшее и удивляющее иностранцев. О том интереснейшем времени рассказывает ученый, проживший более двадцати лет в Японии и посвятивший более сорока лет...
М.: ВКН, 2018. — 452 с. Пятнадцать сёгунов Токугава правили Японией почти 270 лет. По большей части это были обычные люди, которые могли незаметно прожить свою жизнь и уйти из неё, не оставив следа в истории своей страны. Но судьба распорядилась иначе. Эта книга рассказывает о том, как сёгуны Токугава приходили во власть и как её использовали, что думали о себе и других, как с...
М.: Астрель, Corpus, 2012. — 528 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-43462-4. Период Токугава (1603-1867 гг.) во многом определил стремительный экономический взлет Японии и нынешний ее триумф, своеобразие культуры и представлений ее жителей, так удивлявшее и удивляющее иностранцев. О том интереснейшем времени рассказывает ученый, проживший более двадцати лет в Японии и посвятивший более...
М.: Издательство восточной литературы, 1961. – 212 с.
Книга посвящена выдающемуся мыслителю периода Токугава Андо Сёэки (1703-1762). После его смерти имя философа было предано забвению, в XX веке внимание к его фигуре привлек японовед Г.Норман. В своих работах Андо Сёэки подверг уничтожающей критике сословное неравенство, конфуцианство и религию. Можно ли называть Андо Сёэки...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1972. — 303 с. Рассматриваются идеи видных мыслителей периода Токугава – Ито Дзинсай, Кайбара Экикэн, Ямагата Банто и др. Их характеристика автором как атеистов и материалистов не всегда убедительна, но он подробно разбирает идеи этих мыслителей, вписывая свой анализ в контекст развития японской общественной мысли эпохи Токугава.
2-ое изд. — М.: Типография Пономарева, 1788. — 239 с. Глава первая о географическом состоянии Японской империи. Глава вторая, содержащая историю Японского государства. Глава третья о Законе или богослужении японцев. Глава четвертая о политическом состоянии Японского государства. Глава пятая о домашнем состоянии в Японском государстве. Глава шестая о учености японцев.
Спб.: Морская типография, 1816. - 163 с.
История пленения японцами капитана Головнина рассказанная оставшимся на шлюпе Диана и занявшим должность капитана его помощником.
3-е изд. — СПб.: Изд. вдовы адмирала Л. И. Рикорд, 1875. — [6], II, 111 с., 1 л. фронт. (портр.), 4 л. ил. Рикорд Пётр Иванович (1776-1855) - российский адмирал, путешественник, кораблестроитель, государственный и общественный деятель. Им было совершено троекратное плавание к берегам Японии, для освобождения капитана Головнина и нескольких находящихся с ним лиц из плена. Рикорд...
2-е изд. — СПб.: Тип. И. Греча, 1851. — [8], 98 с., 1 л. фронт. (портр.), 4 л. ил. Портрет П. Рикорда создан в технике гравюры на меди, иллюстрация выполнена в технике литографии. Главное сочинение адмирала, путешественника, дипломата, государственного и общественного деятеля Петра Ивановича Рикорда (1776–1855) выдержало три издания (1816, 1851, 1875 гг.) и было переведено на...
СПб.: тип. Н. Греча, 1851. — [8], 98 с.: 1 л. портр., 1 л. ил., 4 л. план. Рикорд Пётр Иванович (1776-1855) - российский адмирал, путешественник, кораблестроитель, государственный и общественный деятель. Им было совершено троекратное плавание к берегам Японии, для освобождения капитана Головнина и нескольких находящихся с ним лиц из плена. Рикорд успешно выполнил свою миссию,...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1987. — 96 с.: илл. — (Рассказы о странах Востока). В книге рассказывается о жизни и приключениях отважного английского моряка и кораблестроителя, предприимчивого торговца Уильяма Адамса, первого англичанина, прожившего в Японии долгие годы. Попав после кораблекрушения в Японию, Адамс сумел завоевать доверие могущественного...
М.; Л.: Соцэкгиз, 1934. — 111 с. Из предисловия автора: Настоящая работа представляет собой попытку марксистского объяснения переворота 1868 г., с которого буржуазно-капиталистическая Япония ведет свое начало. Для этого нам пришлось рассмотреть предшествовавшую перевороту «токугавскую эпоху» (1603—1868), которая является не чем иным, как японской разновидностью поздней фазы...
Владивосток: Издательство Дальневосточного университета, 1995. — 68 с. Учебное пособие по курсам «Государственно-политический строй стран АТР» и «История политических учений». Предназначено для студентов, аспирантов, преподавателей, всех, интересующихся историей Японии.
СПб.: Евразия, 1999. — 332 с. Книга посвящена истории японского воинского сословия с момента его зарождения до падения во второй половине 19 века. Она написана живым, образным языком и основывается на добротном историческом материале. На страницах этой книги мир средневековых японских воинов, которые играли важную роль в истории 17-19 вв., раскрывается перед читателем во всём...
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2013. — 168 с. — ISBN: 9783659409776 Политика сёгуната Токугава в годы Тэмпо, включавшая комплекс мер, направленных на повышение доходов, снижение цен, нормализацию работы кредитной системы, улучшение криминогенной ситуации, соблюдение морально-нравственных устоев и укрепление обороны, стала заметным явлением в истории первой половины XIX в....
М., 1999. — 181 с. В монографии исследован финансово-экономический кризис, охвативший сёгунат Токугава к 40-м годам XIX века, который вызвал проведение серии реформ годов Тэмпо. Показано, что реформы носили поверхностный характер и не отвечали вызовам времени, строились по принципам, завещанным первыми сёгунами Токугава. В особенности неудачным было бюрократическое...
М.: Издательство Московского института востоковедения, 1954. — 108 с. Учебное пособие раскрывает в соответствии с принципами марксистской историософии основные предпосылки революции Мэйдзи и показывает ее незавершенный характер. Рассказывается о насильственном «открытии» Японии западными державами, гражданской войне и отставке сёгуна Токугава Ёсинобу.
В книге: СПб.: Северо-Запад Пресс, 2003. — с. 75-218. Сборник заметок и размышлений «отставного» самурая (его господин умер, последовать за ним путём ритуального самоубийства — цуйфуку — ему было запрещено, и он стал монахом) Ямамото Цунэтомо, записанных его учеником Цурамото Тасиро. Записки писались 7 лет и по формату напоминают современный блог. Ключевая идея — первая же...
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