Japan's private spheres : autonomy in Japanese history, 1600-1930
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Japan's private spheres : autonomy in Japanese history, 1600-1930
（The intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives / edited by Ochiai Emiko, v. 13）
Brill, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-344) and index
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Description
Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the historical development of the private and its evolving relationship with public authority, a dynamic that evokes stereotypes about an alleged dearth of individual agency in Japanese society. It does so through a montage of case studies. For the early modern era, case studies examine peripheral living spaces, boyhood, and self-interrogation in the arts. For the modern period, they explore strategic deviance, individuality in Meiji education, modern leisure, and body-maintenance. Analysis of these disparate private realms illuminates evolving conceptualizations of the private and its reciprocal yet often-contested relationship to the state.
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Prologue
PART 1
Contextualizing the Private Sphere in Japanese History
1 Introduction
The Private "Problem" br/>
1 Contexts of Privacy in Modernizing Japan
2 Challenges and Methodologies
2 Public and Private in Pre-Meiji Thought and Society
1 Introduction
2 Public and Private in the Japanese Context
3 Public and Private in the Medieval Period
4 Public and Private in the Edo Period
3 The Private Self and the Meiji-Taisho State
1 The Individual's Relationship to the State
2 Prescribed Private Spheres: Religion, the Home, and Leisure
3 Historiography on Modern Japan's Private Spheres
PART 2
The Autonomous Self in the Edo Period (1600-1868)
4 Peripheries as Private Spheres
1 Everything in Its Place: City, Suburb, Countryside
2 Koetsumura
3 Itami
3.1 Itami Sak e
3.2 The Itami Salon
4 Negishi
4.1 Negishi as a Homegrown Living Space
4.2 Resignation and Reclusion
5 Boyhood as an Autonomous Sphere
1 Introduction
2 Practical Childrearing
3 Diaries
4 Role Models and the Moral Authority of the Private
6 "Publicizing" the Private
Self-Interrogation and Self-Indulgence in the Arts
1 Human Difference in Early Modern Thought
2 The Self-Interrogation of Hakuin (1685-1768) and Kinkoku (1761-1832)
3 Self and Self-Portraiture
4 Master Depravity and the Self as Spectacle
PART 3
Public and Private Selves in Meiji and Taisho (1868-1926)
7 The Deviant in Meiji Society
Autonomy, Individuality, and Public Power
1 Meiji's New Normal
2 Loser Literature
3 Anguished Art
4 Ideology and Rupture: Eccentricity and Its Place in Meiji's Cultural Field
8 The Private Individual in Early Meiji Education (1872-1890s)
1 The Individual in Early Meiji Education
2 On the Practice of Keeping Individuality Charts
3 Early Student Charts in the United States
4 Individuality as Control
9 Education and Public Individuality (1890s-1927)
1 Kosei in Public Education
2 Changes in Student Evaluations
3 Kosei as "Public Individuality"
PART 4
The Nationalization of Private Leisure (1868-1930s)
10 Vacationing and Moral Authority
1 School Summer Vacations
2 Moral Authority and Vacationing for Adults
3 Ambivalence and Contestation
11 Nationalizing the Body
Physical Exercise as a Public Ethic
1 "Civilizing" the Physical Body
2 Western Athletics
3 Public Fitness as Statecraft (1920s~)
12 Conclusion
Can Modern Japan's Private Spheres Be Moral?
1 Reconciliations of Self and State
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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