Table Of ContentValues, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan
Brill’s Japanese
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Kate Wildman Nakai
VOLUME 52
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“Seven Cranes” by Itō Jakuchū (1735–1801) from the collection of
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Values, Identity, and Equality in
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-
Century Japan
Edited by
Peter Nosco
James E. Ketelaar
Yasunori Kojima
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
List of Illustrations viii
List of Contributors x
1 Introduction: Values, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-Century Japan 1
Peter Nosco and James E. Ketelaar
PART 1
Values in Practice
2 Waiting for the Flying Fish to Leap: Revisiting the Values and
Individuality of Tokugawa People as Practiced 29
Eiko Ikegami
3 Good Older Brother, Bad Younger Brother: Sibling Rivalry in the Hirata
Family 51
Anne Walthall
4 Being a Brat: The Ethics of Child Disobedience in the Edo Period 80
W. Puck Brecher
PART 2
The Construction of Identity
5 The Early Modern Co-Emergence of Individuality and Collective
Identity 113
Peter Nosco
6 Rebirth of a Hirata School Nativist: Tsuruya Ariyo and His Kaganabe
Journal 134
Gideon Fujiwara
7 New Cultures, New Identities: Becoming Okinawan and Japanese in
Nineteenth-Century Ryukyu 159
Gregory Smits
vi contents
PART 3
Erotic Emotionality and Parody
8 Searching For Erotic Emotionality in Tokugawa Japan 181
James E. Ketelaar
9 Laughter Connects the Sacred (sei 聖) and the Sexual (sei 性):
The Blossoming of Parody in Edo Culture 205
Yasunori Kojima
PART 4
Equality and Modernity
10 The Unconventional Origins of Modern Japan: Mantei Ōga vs.
Fukuzawa Yukichi 243
M. William Steele
11 Flowery Tales: Ōe Taku, Kōbe and the Making of Meiji Japan’s
‘Emancipation Moment’ 262
Daniel V. Botsman
12 From Relational Identity to Specific Identity: On Equality and
Nationality 290
Naoki Sakai
epilogue
The Historiographical Issues
13 Epilogue: Reimagining Early Modern Japan—Beyond the Imagined/
Invented Modern Nation 323
Jun’ichi Isomae
Glossary 349
Index for Values, Identity and Equality 369
Acknowledgements
Edited volumes are never simple matters, and many persons and organizations
deserve our thanks for making this one possible. Earlier versions of these
essays were first presented at an August 2013 symposium, which was held on
the campus of the University of British Columbia and was made possible by
generous financial and organizational support from the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Japan Foundation, and The University of
British Columbia (UBC), especially its Faculty of Arts and Department of Asian
Studies. Additional support was contributed by The Consulate of Japan in
Vancouver, and especially Consul General Seiji Okada. JSPS and UBC also pro-
vided fellowship and sabbatical support that made possible Peter Nosco’s ten
months at International Christian University in Tokyo-Mitaka, where he and
fellow editor Y. Kojima were able to enjoy neighborly collaboration, as well as
to welcome third co-editor Jim Ketelaar whenever he was able to fit in a visit.
Other individuals who were particularly helpful include: Joe and Etsuko
Price and their Shin’enkan Foundation, who granted us permission to use the
image that graces this volume’s cover; Lisa Tomo Kitagawa, who granted impor-
tant technical support during the preparation of the first draft; Miriam Wattles,
who provided both encouragement and guidance on Edo-period art; Richard
Wilson, who masterfully untangled a particularly thorny issue of artistic influ-
ence; and Ron Toby, who superbly fulfilled the role of general discussant at
the original symposium. Copyeditor Julene Knox performed her art master-
fully. Other acknowledgments for the use of images accompany the images
themselves.
Finally, we wish especially to thank Brill for their confidence in this proj-
ect. When planning a symposium, seeking funding for it, exhorting colleagues
to contribute papers in a timely manner, and then further exhorting them to
revise those papers into book chapters, there is nothing more helpful than hav-
ing a publisher’s advance commitment of support. Brill provided exactly this,
and their entire staff has been an absolute joy to work with, but no one more
than Patricia Radder based in Leiden. An anonymous outside reader contrib-
uted a brilliantly helpful report that significantly strengthened a number of
chapters, and especially the Introduction.
It needs be said that whatever shortcomings remain in this volume are the
responsibility of the co-editors.
Peter Nosco, James Ketelaar, and Yasunori Kojima
