by
Neary, Ian.
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952 22
Publication Date
1993
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3.9884
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Totman, Conrad D.
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952.025 20
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1995
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Duus, Peter, 1933-
Call Number
951.902 20
Publication Date
1995
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3.0088
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Tanaka, Stefan, author.
Call Number
952.031 22
Publication Date
2004
Summary
New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time--the reckoning of time--during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time. The solar calendar and clock became standard timekeeping devices, and society adapted to the abstractions inherent in modern notions of time. This set off a cascade of changes that completely reconfigured how humans interacted with each other and with their environment ...
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Leupp, Gary P.
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306.7660952 20
Publication Date
1995
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Shannon, Anne Park.
Call Number
952.03 23
Publication Date
2012
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"In contrast to the widely known experiences of Asian immigrants who came to Canada, this book looks at movement in the opposite direction. Using text and images, it is a collection of stories about how Canadians "found Japan," the first place they reached when travelling westward across the Pacific. These connections began as early as 1848, when the adventurous son of a Hudson's Bay Company trader tempted fate by smuggling himself, disguised as a shipwrecked sailor, into the closed and exotic land of the shoguns. He was followed by an intriguing cast of characters--missionaries, educators, businessmen, social activists, political figures, diplomats, soldiers and occasional misfits--who experienced a rapidly changing Japan as it underwent its remarkable transformation from a largely feudal society to a modern state. Now, when the world is becoming more Asia-centric, Finding Japan provides glimpses into an earlier era that challenged conventional perceptions about Canadian connections across the Pacific."--Publisher's website.
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Inoue, Takehiko, 1967-
Call Number
741.5952 INO V6
Publication Date
2010
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Fujitani, Takashi.
Call Number
952.03 20
Publication Date
1996
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In 1993, Masako Owada captured the world's attention when she agreed to marry Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan. She was widely portrayed as a progressive, Westernized woman about to enter one of the last bastions of traditional Japanese sexism. Crown Prince Naruhito's world was known to be steeped in ancient tradition, and the strictures placed on her were seen as tragic vestiges of the patriarchal past. But in this dramatic departure from accepted assumptions about Japan, T. Fujitani argues that just over a century ago, there was no such thing as an imperial family, imperial family, imperial wedding ceremonies were unheard of, and the image of the emperor as patriarch did not exist. Demonstrating how the trappings of the emperor were imported from nineteenth-century Western courts, he concludes that the Japanese monarchy as we know it is actually an invention of modern times. Fujitani focuses on public ceremonials and the construction of ritual spaces in the Meiji Period (1868-1912). His work is based on extensive research in Japanese archives and libraries, including the archives of the Imperial Household Agency. To explore the modern transformations of what is often portrayed as the longest continuously reigning monarchy in the world, he focuses on the monarchy's location within a modern regime of power, city planning, the media, and the gendering of politics. Throughout, he presents rare photographs and woodblock prints to trace the image of the emperor from a mysterious figure secluded inside a palanquin to a grand public personage riding in an open carriage in Western military regalia.
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Oka, Yoshitake
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952.03 OKA
Publication Date
1986
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Hanley, Susan B., 1939-
Call Number
306.0952 20
Publication Date
1997
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1.9498
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Bennett, Terry.
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952.031 23
Publication Date
2012
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1.2717
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Hillsborough, Romulus, author.
Call Number
952.025 23
Publication Date
2017
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"Assassination--in Japanese, ansatsu or "dark murder"--Was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the shogun's military government was overthrown and the Imperial monarchy restored in 1868. This first-ever account in English of the assassins who drove the revolution details one of the most volatile periods in Japanese history"--
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