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Reopening the Opening of Japan
Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World
Series: - Brill's Japanese Studies Library, Volume: 75
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.
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.
Lewis Bremner (University of Cambridge) is a historian in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
Manimporok Dotulong (Brown University) studies transnational connections across and beyond Asia with a focus on intellectual and environmental history.
Sho Konishi (University of Oxford) is a historian specialising in transnational formations of knowledge at Oxford University, where he is the Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies.
Manimporok Dotulong (Brown University) studies transnational connections across and beyond Asia with a focus on intellectual and environmental history.
Sho Konishi (University of Oxford) is a historian specialising in transnational formations of knowledge at Oxford University, where he is the Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies.
"A pioneering critique of the historiography of 'the opening.' The book is a major contribution to the field, re-thinking approaches to global as well as national history." - M. William Steele, Professor Emeritus, International Christian University
Contents
Acknowledgments and Permissions
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âLewis Bremner and Manimporok Dotulong
1 The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Opening of American Civilisation
âSamurai, Interracial Romance, and Southern Print Culture
âNatalia Doan
2 Laughing at Civilisation
âCharles Wirgmanâs Japan Punch and the Reopening of Great Britain
âWarren A. Stanislaus
3 Minakata Kumagusu and the Microbial Turn in Theories of Evolution and Civilisation, 1887â1892
âEiko Honda
4 Opening the West with Japanese Mermaid Mummies Ningyo in the Making of the Theory of Evolution
âMateja Kovacic
5 HyakushÅ in the Arafura Zone
âEcologising the Nineteenth-Century âOpening of Japanâ
âManimporok Dotulong
6 The Transformation of Magic Lantern Technology in Nineteenth Century Japan
âLewis Bremner
7 Squaring Experiences with the Opening
âThe Case of Yokoyama MatsusaburÅ
âMaki Fukuoka
8 The Modern Closing of a Tokugawa-Era âOpeningâ
âThe Early Modern Origins of an International Humanitarian Organisation
âSho Konishi
9 A Defeated Samurai of the Boshin Civil War and the Search for a New Universalism
âChinami Oka
10 Meiji Civil War Losers in Siam
âMiyazaki TÅtenâs Utopian Farming Community (1877â1896)
âJoel Littler
11 The âSecond Ishinâ and Kunikida Doppoâs Misunderstood Nature
âYu Sakai
12 Something Like an Autobiography
âAkira Kurosawa on Free Pedagogy and Restoration of Japanâs Democratic Self
âOlga V. Solovieva
Index
Acknowledgments and Permissions
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âLewis Bremner and Manimporok Dotulong
Part 1: Visions of Civilisation
1 The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Opening of American Civilisation
âSamurai, Interracial Romance, and Southern Print Culture
âNatalia Doan
2 Laughing at Civilisation
âCharles Wirgmanâs Japan Punch and the Reopening of Great Britain
âWarren A. Stanislaus
3 Minakata Kumagusu and the Microbial Turn in Theories of Evolution and Civilisation, 1887â1892
âEiko Honda
Part 2: Life through the Opening
4 Opening the West with Japanese Mermaid Mummies Ningyo in the Making of the Theory of Evolution
âMateja Kovacic
5 HyakushÅ in the Arafura Zone
âEcologising the Nineteenth-Century âOpening of Japanâ
âManimporok Dotulong
6 The Transformation of Magic Lantern Technology in Nineteenth Century Japan
âLewis Bremner
7 Squaring Experiences with the Opening
âThe Case of Yokoyama MatsusaburÅ
âMaki Fukuoka
Part 3: From Particularity to Radical Universality
8 The Modern Closing of a Tokugawa-Era âOpeningâ
âThe Early Modern Origins of an International Humanitarian Organisation
âSho Konishi
9 A Defeated Samurai of the Boshin Civil War and the Search for a New Universalism
âChinami Oka
10 Meiji Civil War Losers in Siam
âMiyazaki TÅtenâs Utopian Farming Community (1877â1896)
âJoel Littler
11 The âSecond Ishinâ and Kunikida Doppoâs Misunderstood Nature
âYu Sakai
Part 4: Epilogue: Postwar Reflections
12 Something Like an Autobiography
âAkira Kurosawa on Free Pedagogy and Restoration of Japanâs Democratic Self
âOlga V. Solovieva
Index
Students of and specialists in Japanese history, global and transnational history.