Early Modern Japan

Etukansi
University of California Press, 30.10.1993 - 593 sivua
This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also introduces a new ecological perspective, covering natural disasters, resource use, demographics, and river control.

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Sivu 172 - ... service to his master if he has one, in deepening his fidelity in associations with friends, and, with due consideration of his own position, in devoting himself to duty above all. . . . The samurai dispenses with the business of the farmer, artisan, and merchant and confines himself to practicing this Way; should there be someone in the three classes of the common people who transgresses against these moral principles, the samurai summarily punishes him and thus upholds proper moral principles...
Sivu 502 - All Southern Barbarians and Westerners, not only the English, worship Christianity, that wicked cult prohibited in our land. Henceforth, whenever a foreign ship is sighted approaching any point on our coast, all persons on hand should fire on and drive it off.
Sivu 206 - ... floating, floating, caring not a whit for the pauperism staring us in the face, refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current, this is what we call Ukiyoe...
Sivu 259 - If a baby is born in a samurai family, for instance, the friends of the family make inquiries among themselves as to whether the baby is going to be brought up. They do not visit the family to congratulate the parents until they are sure that the newly born infant is going to be brought up. If they learn that it is not going to be of the living, they pretend to know nothing of the matter, and leave it severely alone. Most families do not take the trouble to bring up any except the firstborn. If any...
Sivu 178 - The great man regards Heaven and Earth and the myriad things as one body. He regards the world as one family and the country as one person.
Sivu 9 - Inhabitants which is needfull, or that fatnesse and convenience for the growth of Corne, Fruit, and small grayne as is requisite; which causeth the people to select the choysest and plainest parts and places of the land both to till and dwell in. The Climate is temperate and healthie not much pestred with infectious or obnoxious ayres...
Sivu 172 - Outwardly he stands in physical readiness for any call to service, and inwardly he strives to fulfill the Way of the lord and subject, friend and friend, father and son, older and younger brother, and husband and wife. Within his heart he keeps to the ways of peace, but without he keeps his weapons ready for use. The three classes of the common people make him their teacher and respect him. By following his teachings, they are enabled to understand what is fundamental and what is secondary. Herein...
Sivu 171 - They associate without being remiss." 7 1 . This is usually taken to mean the Five Natural Relationships of the Ru school: ruler and subject; father and son; husband and wife; older and younger brother; and between friends.

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Conrad Totman is Professor of History at Yale University and the author of Japan Before Perry: A Short History (California, 1981) and The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan (California, 1989).

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