The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, And Insurrection In Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790 - 1864 PDF
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This volume is sponsored by The Center for Japanese Studies University of California, Berkeley The Mito Ideology The Mito Ideology Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790-1864 J. VICTOR KOSCHMANN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 1987 by The Regents of the University of California Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 89 Most of chapter 5 has appeared as "Action as a Text: Ideology in the Tengu Insurrection," in Tetsuo Najita and J. Victor Koschmann, eds., Conflict in Modern Japanese History: The Neglected Tradition. Copyright © 1982 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Koschmann, J. Victor. The Mito ideology. "This volume is sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley"— Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Japan—History—1787-1868. 2. Mitogaku. 3. Mito-han (Japan)—History. I. Title. DS881.K66 1987 952'025 86-4351 ISBN 0-520-05768-6 (alk. paper) To Nicole, Mei-joy, and Andrea Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 The Problem of Method 4 Tokugawa Ideology 7 Tokugawa Reformism 14 Historiographical Perspective 16 1. Rectification and Myth 29 The Plight of the Domain 29 The Mito Historiographical Tradition 34 Rectification of Names 43 Natural Order Through Artifice 48 2. The National Essence 56 History as Entropy 57 Eternal Return Through Imperial Ritual 64 The Need for Action 77 3. Reform as Representation 81 Demarcating the Land 85 Grounding the Aristocracy 101 Spreading the Way 114 The Domain as Microcosm 125 4. Recruitment of Commoners 130 The Tenpö Legacy 131 The Intrusion of National Politics 139 Education as Ideology 142 Assassination at Sakurada Gate 149 5. Ritual and Action in the Tengu Insurrection 152 Mobilization and Oppression 157 Pilgrimage to the Origin 162 New Political Space 170 vii viii Contents Coda: Mito Ideology as Text 173 Appendix: Gekibun (Call to Action) 175 Bibliography 177 Index 183
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