Preface to the new edition -- Historiography in the Service of the Meiji Government -- The Meiji Restoration and the Revival of Historiography by the Government -- Centralization of Government and the Department of History -- The Osaka Conference and the Office of Historiography -- The Political Crisis of 1881 and the Reorganization of the College of Historiography -- On the Way to the Meiji Constitution: From Government Office to University Institute -- The Activities of the Office of Historiography -- Organization and Staff up to 1881 -- Organization and Staff after 1881 -- 'Applied History' -- The Office of Historiography and Its Rivals -- The Form of Official Historiography -- Recording the Restoration -- Collecting Materials and Writing History -- The Language of Official Historiography -- Studying Western Methods (1): Zerffi -- The Dainihon hennenshi -- History as an Academic Discipline -- Scholarly Traditions -- History at the Imperial University -- Studying Western Methods (2): Rieβ -- The akademizumu School of History -- History and Ideology in Conflict -- History and the Public -- National Learning versus Chinese Learning -- 'Dr. Obliterator' -- The 'Kume Affair' -- The End of the Official History -- Scholarship versus Education: The Textbook Controversy of 1911 -- The Legacy: The Historiographical Institute since 1895 -- History and the Nation in Germany and Japan.

Reopening the opening of Japan : transnational approaches to modern Japan and the wider world /  edited by Lewis Bremner, Manimporok Dotulong, Sho Konishi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction Lewis Bremner and Manimporok Dotulong

Part 1 Visions of Civilisation
1 The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Opening of American Civilisation: Samurai, Interracial Romance, and Southern Print Culture / Natalia Doan
2 Laughing at Civilisation: Charles Wirgman’s Japan Punch and the Reopening of Great Britain / Warren A. Stanislaus
3 Minakata Kumagusu and the Microbial Turn in Theories of Evolution and Civilisation, 1887–1892 / Eiko Honda
Part 2 Life through the Opening
4 Opening the West with Japanese Mermaid Mummies: Ningyo in the Making of the Theory of Evolution / Mateja Kovacic
5 Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone: Ecologising the Nineteenth-Century “Opening of Japan” / Manimporok Dotulong
6 The Transformation of Magic Lantern Technology in Nineteenth Century Japan / Lewis Bremner
7 Squaring Experiences with the Opening: The Case of Yokoyama Matsusaburō / Maki Fukuoka
Part 3 From Particularity to Radical Universality
8 The Modern Closing of a Tokugawa-Era “Opening”: The Early Modern Origins of an International Humanitarian Organisation / Sho Konishi
9 A Defeated Samurai of the Boshin Civil War and the Search for a New Universalism / Chinami Oka
10 Meiji Civil War Losers in Siam: Miyazaki Tōten’s Utopian Farming Community (1877–1896) / Joel Littler
11 The “Second Ishin” and Kunikida Doppo’s Misunderstood Nature / Yu Sakai
Part 4 Epilogue: Postwar Reflections
12 Something Like an Autobiography: Akira Kurosawa on Free Pedagogy and Restoration of Japan’s
Democratic Self / Olga V. Solovieva

"The 'Opening of Japan' has been central to the retelling of Japan's modern history. Reopening the Opening of Japan fundamentally reconsiders what that historical moment entailed. What did intensified connections between Japan and the world mean both inside and outside of the country, and what does this tell us about Japan's historical significance on a global scale? The chapters excavate a rich array of surprising cross-border connections, from the global trade in mummified mermaids to the Japanese-Russian intellectual links underpinning the work of Akira Kurosawa. Re-thinking connectivity through non-state transnational perspectives, the book guides readers to new ways of doing and writing history. Contributors are: Lewis Bremner, Natalia Doan, Manimporok Dotulong, Maki Fukuoka, Eiko Honda, Sho Konishi, Mateja Kovacic, Joel Littler, Chinami Oka, Yu Sakai, Olga Solovieva, and Warren Stanislaus"--  Provided by publisher.

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