Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, has been considered the authoritative sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from the eighteenth century to the post-World War II period. Now greatly expanded to include the entire twentieth century, and beginning in 1600, Sources of Japanese Tradition presents writings from modern Japan's most important philosophers, religious figures, writers, and political leaders. The volume also offers extensive introductory essays and commentary to assist in understanding the documents' historical setting and significance. Wonderfully varied in its selections, this eagerly anticipated expanded edition has revised many of the texts from the original edition and added a great many not included or translated before. New additions include documents on the postwar era, the importance of education in the process of modernization, and women's issues.
Beginning with documents from the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate, the collection's essays, manifestos, religious tracts, political documents, and memoirs reflect major Japanese religious, philosophical, social, and political movements. Subjects covered include the spread of neo-Confucian and Buddhist teachings, Japanese poetry and aesthetics, and the Meiji Restoration. Other documents reflect the major political trends and events of the period: the abolition of feudalism, agrarian reform, the emergence of political parties and liberalism, and the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars. The collection also includes Western and Japanese impressions of each other via Western religious missions and commercial and cultural exchanges. These selections underscore Japanese and Western apprehension of and fascination with each other.
As Japan entered the twentieth century, new political and social movements-Marxism, anarchism, socialism, feminism, and nationalism-entered the national consciousness. Later readings in the collection look at the buildup to war with the United States, military defeat, and American occupation. Documents from the postwar period echo Japan's struggle with its own history and its development as a capitalist democracy.
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Edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary, Donald Keene, and Ryusaku Tsunoda
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Preface Part IV The Tokugawa Peace 20. Ieyasu and the Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate, by Willem Boot Ieyasuís Revenge and Compassion 21. Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period, by Willem Boot Fujiwara Seika and the Rise of Neo-Confucianism Hayashi Razan The Later History of the Hayashi Family School The Way of Heaven 22. The Spread of Neo-Confucianism in Japan Yamazaki Ansai and Zhu Xi Studies, by Barry Steben The Mito School, by Barry Steben Kaibara Ekken: Human Nature and the Study of Nature, by Mary Evelyn Tucker The Oyomei (Wang Yangming) School in Japan, by Barry Steben Kumazawa Banzan: Confucian Practice in Seventeenth-Century Japan, by Ian James McMullen Nakae Tojuís Successors in the Oyomei School, by Barry Steben 23. The Evangelic Furnace: Japanís First Encounter with the West, by J. S. A. Elisonas European Documents A Christian Critique of Shinto Alexandro Valignanoís Japanese Mission Policy A Jesuit Priestís Observations of Women Japanese Documents The Anti-Christian Edicts of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Fabian Fucan Pro and Contra A Buddhist Refutation of Christianity 24. Confucian Revisionists, by Wm. Theodore de Bary and John A. Tucker Fundamentalism and Revisionism in the Critique of Neo-Confucianism Yamaga Soko and the Civilizing of the Samurai, by John A. Tucker Ito Jinsaiís School of Ancient Meanings, by John A. Tucker Ogyu Sorai and the Return to the Classics Muro Kyusoís Defense of Neo-Confucianism 25. Varieties of Neo-Confucian Education Principles of Education Yamazaki Ansai, by John A. Tucker Kaibara Ekken, by Mary Evelyn Tucker The Shizutani School, by Mary Evelyn Tucker The Merchant Academy of Kaitokudo, by Tetsuo Najita Lecture on the Early Chapters of the Analects and Mencius Items of Understanding, 1727 Items of Understanding, 1758 Ogyu Soraiís Approach to Learning, by Richard Minear Hirose Tansoís School System, by Marleen Kassel 26. Popular Instruction Ishida Baiganís Learning of the Mind and the Way of the Merchant, by Janine Sawada The House Codes of Tokugawa Merchant Families The Testament of Shimai Soshitsu The Code of the Okaya House Ihara Saikaku Mitsui Takafusa Muro Kyuso Hosoi Heishu How to Behave at Temple Schools 27. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics III, by Donald Keene Chikamatsu Monzaemon 28. Haiku and the Democracy of Poetry as a Popular Art, by Donald Keene Matsuo Basho Issa 29. "Dutch Learning," by Grant Goodman Engelbert Kaempfer Sugita Genpaku Otsuki Gentaku Shiba Kokan 30. Eighteenth-Century Rationalism Arai Hakuseki's Confucian Perspective on Government and Society, by Kate Nakai The Function of Rites The Evolution of Japanese History Hakuseki's View of Christianity and the West Hakuseki's Approach to Fiscal Policy and Trade Tominaga Nakamotoís Historical Relativism Ando Shoeki's Ecological Community Miura Baien's Search for a New Logic, by Rosemary Mercer "The Origin of Price" Baien's System of "Logic" Space and Time Heaven-and-Earth Is the Teacher Jori and Science Kaiho Seiryo and the Laws of Economics 31. The Way of the Warrior II The Debate over the Ako Vendetta, by John A. Tucker and Barry Steben Okado Denpachiro Religious Nuances of the Ako Case, by John A. Tucker and Barry Steben Hayashi Razan Hayashi Hoko Muro Kyuso Ogyu Sorai Sato Naokata Asami Keisai Dazai Shundai Goi Ranshu Fukuzawa Yukichi The Ako Vendetta Dramatized, by Donald Keene Hagakure and the Way of the Samurai, by Barry Steben 32. The National Learning Schools, by Peter Nosco Kada no Azumamaro Kamo no Mabuchi Motoori Norinaga Love and Poetry Good and Evil in The Tale of Genji Hirata Atsutane Okuni Takamasa 33. Buddhism in the Tokugawa Period Suzuki Shosan, by Royall Tyler Takuan Soho, by William Bodiford Bankei Hakuin Ekaku Jiun Sonja Paul Watt 34. Orthodoxy, Protest, and Local Reform The Prohibition of Heterodox Studies The Kansei Edict The Justification for the Kansei Edict The Later Wang Yangming (Oyomei) School, by Barry Steben Sato Issai Oshio Heihachiro Agrarian Reform and Cooperative Planning Ninomiya Sontoku 35. Forerunners of the Restoration Rai Sanyo and Yamagata Daini: Loyalism Rai Sanyo's Unofficial History, by Barry Steben Yamagata Daini's New Thesis, by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Honda Toshiaki: Ambitions for Japan Sato Nobuhiro: Totalitarian Nationalism 36. The Debate over Seclusion and Restoration The Later Mito School The Opening of Japan from Within Sakuma Shozan: Eastern Ethics and Western Science Yokoi Shonan: Opening the Country for the Common Good Yoshida Shoin: Death-Defying Heroism Fukuzawa Yukichi: Pioneer of Westernization Reform Proposals of Sakamoto Ryoma, Saigo Takamori, and Okubo Toshimichi Sakamoto Ryoma: Eight-Point Proposal Letter from Saigo Takamori and Okubo Toshimichi on the Imperial Restoration Part V Japan, Asia, and the West 37. The Meiji Restoration, by Fred G. Notehelfer The Abolition of Feudalism and the Centralization of the Meiji State The Leaders and Their Vision The Iwakura Mission Consequences of the Iwakura Mission: Saigo and Okubo on Korea The Meiji Emperor 38. Civilization and Enlightenment, by Albert Craig Fukuzawa Yukichi Enlightenment Thinkers of the Meirokusha: On Marriage Mori Arinori Kato Hiroyuki Fukuzawa Yukichi Sakatani Shiroshi Tsuda Mamichi Nakamura Masanao: China Should Not Be Despised 39. Popular Rights and Constitutionalism, by James Huffman Debating a National Assembly, 1873-1875 Itagaki Taisuke Nakamura Masanao Representative Assemblies and National Progress, February 1879 Defining the Constitutional State, 1876-1883 Ito Hirobumi Okuma Shigenobu Chiba Takasaburo Nakae Chomin The Emergence of Political Parties Itagaki Taisuke Fukuchi Gen'ichiro Okuma Shigenobu Ozaki …