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Author:

International Symposium in North America (2000 : Maui, Hawaii)

Title:

Writing histories in Japan : texts and their transformations from ancient times through the Meiji Era / edited by James C. Baxter and Joshua A. Fogel.

Edition:

1st English ed.

Publisher:

International Research Center for Japanese Studies,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

iii, 371 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Japan--Historiography.
Japan--History--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Baxter, James C., 1944-
Fogel, Joshua A., 1950-

Notes:

"ISSN 0915-2822" Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"The age of the gods" in medieval and early modern historiography / Kate Wildman Nakai -- Rewriting the ubuya (parturition hut): its historicity and historiography / Hitomi Tonomura -- The creation of fabricated myths in the medieval age: an examination of Shintōshū, histories (engi), Noh plays, and other sources / Wakita Haruko -- Oda Nobunaga, guns, and early modern warfare in Japan / Paul Varley -- Reinterpreting the Analects: history and utility in the thought of Ogyū Sorai / James McMullen -- Histories official, unofficial, and popular: shogunal favorites in the Genroku era / Anne Walthall -- Sanʼyō, Bakin, and the reanimation of Japan's past / Thomas Keirstead -- The diverse political languages of Edo-period histories / Luke Roberts -- The reformulation of the concept and philosophy of history in modern Japan / Suzuki Sadami -- Contesting the record: Katsu Kaishū and the historiography of the Meiji Restoration / M. William Steele -- Shaping national historical consciousness: Japanese history textbooks in Meiji-era elementary schools / James C. Baxter.

Series:

International Symposium in North America, 0915-2822 ; 2000

OCLC:

(OCoLC)173287970

LCCN:

2008558415

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)