Author: Koschmann, J. Victor
Title: The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa, Japan, 1790-1864
Description: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with burgundy lettering; tan dust jacket with burgundy lettering and bw illustrations; ix, 190 pp. TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The problem of method -- Tokugawa ideology -- Tokugawa reformism -- Historiographical perspective -- Rectification and myth -- The plight of the domain -- The Mito historiographical tradition -- Rectification of names -- Natural order through artifice -- The national essence -- History as entropy -- Eternal return through imperial ritual -- The need for action -- Reform as representation -- Demarcating the land -- Grounding the aristocracy -- Spreading the way -- The domain as microcosm -- Recruitment of commoners -- The Tenpo legacy -- The intrusion of national politics -- Education as ideology -- Assassination at Sakurada Gate -- Ritual and action in the Tengu insurrection -- Mobilization and oppression -- Pilgrimage to the origin -- New political space -- Coda: Mito ideology as text -- Gekibun (call to action). VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear.) .

Keywords: Asian History ; Japanese History ; ;


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