Meiji Restoration Losers : Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan Hardback
by Michael Wert
Part of the Harvard East Asian Monographs series
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This book is about the “losers” of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy.
Although the violence of the Meiji Restoration is typically downplayed, the trauma was real, and those who felt marginalized from the mainstream throughout modern Japan looked to these losers as models of action. Using a wide range of sources, from essays by former Tokugawa supporters like Fukuzawa Yukichi to postwar film and “lost decade” manga, Michael Wert traces the shifting portrayals of Restoration losers.
By highlighting the overlooked sites of memory such as legends about buried gold, the awarding of posthumous court rank, or fighting over a disembodied head, Wert illustrates how the process of commemoration and rehabilitation allows individuals a voice in the formation of national history.
He argues that the commingling of local memory activists and nationally-known politicians, academics, writers, and treasure hunters formed interconnecting memory landscapes that promoted local figures as potential heroes in modern Japan.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, 3 halftones, 1 map
- Publisher:Harvard University, Asia Center
- Publication Date:16/12/2013
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- ISBN:9780674726703
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, 3 halftones, 1 map
- Publisher:Harvard University, Asia Center
- Publication Date:16/12/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674726703