Meiji period japanese history book

This era saw the industrialisation of japan, and its swift rise to the world stage. The power of the tokugawa shogunate, weakened by debt and internal division, had declined, and much opposition had built up in the early 19th cent. This book is full of amazing facts, and i couldnt resist sharing my learning and observations on. Japan s tokugawa or edo period, which lasted from 1603 to 1867, would be the final era of traditional japanese government, culture and society before the meiji restoration of 1868 toppled the. Historical jury still out on japans meiji restoration the japan times.

Another group of japanese rare books more recently added to the librarys collections consists of 67 volumes of illustrated meiji period books collected by robert o. Beasley takes on an wide and very complex period of japanese history with the meiji restoration. During this time, japan started its modernization and rose to world power status. Complete set of two japanese books on history and geography. From tokugawa times to the present by andrew gordon. Saga was the only provincial government that had succeeded in massproducing iron cannons after carefully studying an imported dutch book of. The actual political power was transferred from the tokugawa bakufu into the hands of a small group of nobles and former samurai like other subjugated asian nations, the japanese were forced to sign unequal treaties. In this now classic work of japanese history, the late w. Nihon shiryaku japan geography and history 1869 catawiki. Each volume has 2 coloured and folded maps for a total of 4. In the printing which used the kana syllabary before the meiji period, the letters aimed to mimic the handwritten calligraphic style and often resulted in nearperfect imitations that are difficult to distinguish from actual handcopied works. This period represents the first half of the empire of japan. In 186768, the tokugawa era found an end in the meiji restoration.

It was translated into english by osman edwards in tokyo in the 32nd year of meiji period 1899. List of books and articles about japan, meiji period. For japan, the meiji restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the french revolution has for. This book fills in the gap between the opening of japan and world war ii that many other history books skim over. A distinguished professor of history at princeton, jansen. The emperor meiji was moved from kyoto to tokyo which became the new capital. A key foreign observer of the remarkable and rapid changes in japanese society in this period was ernest satow, resident in japan 186283 and 18951900.

Japanese history meiji restoration, 18681912, japanese. List of books and articles about japan, meiji period online. It saw a change in the culture of japan, which adopted more western ideas. Japanese historythe meiji period wikibooks, open books. Rakugo book written in french in 1899 rakugo in meiji. Discover librarianselected research resources on japan, meiji period from the questia online library, including fulltext online books, academic journals. Japanese illustrated books from the edo and meiji periods. Now in a magisterial book thats also highly readable, marius jansen has told the story of meiji and with it the creation of modern japan. With emperor meijis ascension to the throne in 1867, japan theoretically restored power to the emperor, but because he was only 15 years old he had little.