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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Meiji"”.
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Crafting identities : tableware for the Meiji Emperor
… powers in the mid-nineteenth century, the Meiji Emperor (1868–1912) was also seeking to establish his position as ruler in the eyes of both the citizens of Japan and audiences overseas. While the country embarked on a period of widespread modernisation along Western lines, building …
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Entrance examinations in prewar Japan, late Meiji to 1941
The focus of this thesis is the influence of entrance examinations on the education and lives of students in prewar Japan. I investigate the content and the extent of the tests’ effect through contemporary media reports and official criticism. I show that the influence was similar to that in …
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Sakamoto Ryoma: the Nietzschean hero of the Meiji Restoration
<p>This thesis is a Nietzschean analysis of Meiji Restoration hero Sakamoto Ryoma (1835 - 1867). It discusses the life and times of Sakamoto and basic theories of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900). It argues that despite vastly different historical, cultural, and ideological backgrounds, Sakamoto …
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The role of Meiji financial policy in the rapid industrialization of Japan : 1869-1911
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1975
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La imagen de la mujer japonesa en la fotografía de la Era Meiji (1868-1912)
… de escenas de las mujeres japonesas de la época Meiji en Japón. Para ello se hace necesario revisar los antecedentes históricos sobre los roles de género, determinar el contexto del mercado fotográfico de la época y estudiar la influencia de las corrientes artísticas dentro del binomio …
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The Rishukyo : A translation and commentary in the light of modern Japanese (post-Meiji) scholarship.
… literature on the Rishukyo up to the Meiji period has not been used. The section of the Bibliography dealing with works on the Rishukyo comprises a list which is considerably more comprehensive than those found elsewhere.
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Shaping the present, crafting the past: imaging self-narrative in the life and work of Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900)
… as one of the leading figures in the history of Meiji-era nishiki-e prints, and particularly in the field of kabuki actor imagery. He belonged to a generation of nishiki-e woodblock print designers born and trained in the late Edo period (1603–1867[1868]) who came to artistic maturity during the …
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School, Community, and State Integration in Nineteenth Century Japan
… dissertation focus on the consolidation of the Meiji education system. This was a hegemonic endeavor, in which the Meiji government sought, through rhetoric, institutions, laws, rituals, and administrative routines, to marginalize pre-Meiji educational arrangements and to establish its own …
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RICOSTRUZIONE STORICA DEL COLLEZIONISMO D'ARTE GIAPPONESE DI ERA MEIJI IN ITALIA SETTENTRIONALE. SVILUPPI DI UN MERCATO PARALLELO AGLI SCAMBI COMMERCIALI E DIPLOMATICI.
… from the Edo period (1603-1868) to the Meiji era (1868-1912). These characters have been examined in scientific studies from a historical perspective, but their contribution to fostering Italian enthusiasm for Japanese art has never been deepened. This study focuses on their collections …
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Engineering Education and the Spirit of Samurai at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo, 1871-1886
The Meiji Restoration was the revolution that overthrew the feudal regime of the Tokugawa period in late nineteenth-century Japan. It was also the time of the opening of the country to the rest of the world, and Japan had to confront with Western powers. The Meiji government boldly accepted the new …
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Negotiating With Imperialism: Japan and the Unequal Treaty Regime, 1858--1872
… of accommodation. Chapter 5 examines the Meiji experience of treaty relations 1868--72, and investigates the development, dispatch, and eventual failure of the Iwakura Mission. The conclusion briefly relates Japan's subsequent Asian policy, as it attempted to establish a Western-style …
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The life and ideas of Naruse Jinzo up to the time of the founding of Nihon Joshi Daigakko (1901)
The Meiji Restoration of 1868 ushered in a period of revolutionary social and political change, during which the traditional bases of the social order were questioned and often adapted in an effort to find a social order and a system of values valid for a Japan which was contending with the …
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The life and ideas of Naruse Jinzo up to the time of the founding of Nihon Joshi Daigakko (1901)
The Meiji Restoration of 1868 ushered in a period of revolutionary social and political change, during which the traditional bases of the social order were questioned and often adapted in an effort to find a social order and a system of values valid for a Japan which was contending with the …
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Imitation Game: Military Institutions and Westernization in Indonesia and Japan
… by comparing Cold War Indonesia (1950--1991) and Meiji Japan (1868--1912). For the former, I explain why and how the Indonesian military did not become ``Americanized'' by the end of the Cold War, despite employing thousands of American-trained officers. For the latter, I explain why and how Meiji …
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Kōda Rohan and the golden era of Sōgō Zasshi
… Kaizō’s rediscovery of him as a living legend of Meiji literature, Rohan’s works after his return to spotlight in 1919 also reflect how much he had learned from Chūō Kōron’s editorial policy. In his works for Kaizō, he mixed his knowledge on classical literature with more approachable, …
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Foreign Knowledge or art nation, earthquake nation : architecture, seismology, carpentry, the West, and Japan, 1876-1923
… a corrective to European and American images of Meiji .Japan as a 'pupil country' and the West as a 'teacher culture'. "Foreign Knowledge" demonstrates in very concrete ways bow science and technology, art and architecture, gender, race, and class co-constructed Meiji Japan. Distinctions between …
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The Question of Opium: Money, Morality and Japan’s Transimperial Participation in Opium Regulation, 1868 – 1925
… that we should be discussing their regulation. Meiji Japan was faced with the issue of Chinese imperial subjects who were also dependent on opium. As part of the transimperial discourse on ‘The Opium Question’, Japan learned from other imperial powers like China, the United States and Britain, …
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The neo-Roman conception of freedom in developmentalism: A historical perspective
… are: Early Modern Europe, the American School, Meiji Japan and the Latin American School. While both the liberal tradition and capability approach focus on the individual as the primary unit of analysis, the neo-Roman conception views the freedom of the individual as derivative of the freedom of …
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