Anne Walthall

Biographic Data

ID283282
NAMEAnne Walthall
GIVEN NAMESAnne
FAMILY NAMEWalthall
SIGNATUREWALTHALL A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Irvine
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS61
TOTAL CITATIONS38
AUTHOR COUNT58
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX3

  • Give and Take

    Anne WalthallARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2021

    Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan. By Maren A. Ehlers. Harvard East Asian Monographs, vol. 413. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. Pp. xvi + 351. $49.95

  • Mark Ravina. To Stand with the Nations of the World

    Open AccessAnne WalthallARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020

    For decades historians in Japan and around the world have tried to figure out how Japan evaded subordination to the Western great powers and at the same time transformed its government from a decentralized agrarian regime to a centralized industrializing state, without losing its soul. To deal with this conundrum, Mark Ravina pays due attention to foreign pressure, but never at the expense of accepting the argument that the United States somehow …

  • Do Guns Have Gender? Technology and Status in Early Modern Japan

    Anne WalthallCHAPTERRecreating Japanese Men2019

  • The Merchant's Tale

    Anne WalthallARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2019

    Reviewed by: The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan by Simon Partner Anne Walthall (bio) The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan. By Simon Partner. Columbia University Press, New York, 2018. xxiv, 291 pages. $60.00, cloth; $59.99, E-book. Shinohara Chūemon was 51 when he left his village in the province of Kai to become a merchant in Yokohama. As a rural entrepreneur (gōnō), he already had experience i…

  • The Meiji Restoration Seen from English-speaking Countries

    Anne WalthallARTICLEJapanese Studies2018References: 4

    Marxism, modernization theory, diplomatic history, intellectual history, people’s history, women’s history – from 1950 to the present, historians in Japan and the English-speaking world have taken a variety of approaches to interpreting the causes and events leading up to the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Sometimes they have collaborated; other times they have talked past each other. This article surveys the major trends and offers a few cautionary …

  • Child’s Play

    Open AccessSabine Frühstück, Anne WalthallBOOKChild?s Play2017

    Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the “child crisis.” Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global con…

  • Like No Other

    Anne WalthallARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2017

    Reviewed by: Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan by Mark Thomas McNally Anne Walthall (bio) Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan. By Mark Thomas McNally. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2016. xvi, 287 pages. $67.00. Names carry such a surplus of meaning that they risk having connotations of which the user may be unaware. One example is "nativism," a term that for Japanologists often …

  • Morgan Pitelka, Spectacular Accumulation

    Anne WalthallARTICLEJapanese Studies2016

    Lavishly illustrated in color, with a compelling analysis of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century warlord culture, this book is certain to attract readers of political, cultural, military

  • Lust, Commerce, and Corruption

    Anne Walthall, Fumiko Miyazaki et al.BOOKLust, Commerce, and Corruption2014

  • Lust, Commerce, and Corruption

    Anne Walthall, Fumiko Miyazaki et al.BOOKLust, Commerce, and Corruption2014

    By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed to be approaching a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last forever was far from anyone's mind. Yet, in that year, an anonymous samurai author completed one of the most detailed critiques of Edo society known today. Writing as Buyō Inshi, “a ret…

  • Recreating Japanese Men

    Sabine ühstück, Sabine Frühstück et al.BOOKRecreating Japanese Men2011

  • Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650

    Anne WalthallARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2009

  • Masturbation and Discourse on Female Sexual Practices in Early Modern Japan

    Open AccessAnne WalthallARTICLEGender & History2009Cited by: 2

    Much of the discourse on female sexual practices in early modern Japan centred on masturbation, usually with a dildo, deemed necessary for a woman's mental and physical health when the male member was unavailable. References to female same‐sex relations suggest that they too made sense in situations where men were absent. Some sex manuals treated female sexual arousal within the context of conjugal relations, while a text written for wives in pol…

  • Servants of the Dynasty

    Anne WalthallBOOKServants of the Dynasty2008

  • Servants of the DynastyPalace Women in World History

    Anne WalthallBOOKServants of the Dynasty2008Cited by: 5

    Women and the Performance of Power in Early Modern Southeast Asia--Barbara Watson Andaya 2. Women in Classic Maya Royal Courts--Takeshi Inomata 3. Women and Power at the Byzantine Court--Kathryn M. Ringrose 4. Beyond Harem Walls: Ottoman Royal Women and the Exercise of Power--Leslie P. Peirce 5. Mughal Palace Women--Ruby Lal 6. Politics in an African Royal Harem: Women and Seclusion at the Royal Court of Benin, Nigeria--Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan 7…

  • Teaching & Learning Guide for

    Open AccessAnne WalthallARTICLEHistory Compass2007

    Author’s Introduction This essay argues that in our increasingly violent world, it is worth re‐examining the past to uncover the different forms violence can take. Japan provides a good case study because it combines extremes of violence in the service of aggressive war with the successful acquisition of a modern state, economy, society, and culture. The author of this piece suggests that a focus on Japanese women can illuminate the links between…

  • Women's Bodies, Women's Minds

    Open AccessAnne WalthallARTICLEHistory Compass2004References: 4

    We live in a world permeated with violence, yet until recently the field of Japanese studies has not focused on the connection between violence, gender, and modernity. The goal of this article is to suggest ways in which violence and gender figure in conspicuous consumption and the construction of the modern state

  • The Human Tradition in Modern Japan

    Open AccessAnne WalthallBOOKThe Human Tradition in Modern…2002

    Chapter 1 Introduction: On the Trail of People in the Past Part 2 I: The World of Shogun, Samurai, and Court, 1600-1868 Chapter 3 Shinanomiya Tsuneko: Portrait of a Court Lady Chapter 4 Mori Yoshiki: Samurai Government Officer Part 5 II: The Meiji Restoration and the Transformation of State and Society Chapter 6 Nishimiya Hide: Turning Palace Arts into Marketable Skills Chapter 7 The Ishizaka of Notsuda: A family in Transition Part 8 III: Buildin…

  • Women and Class in Japanese History

    David R Howell, David Howell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2002

  • The Weak Body of a Useless Woman

    Janet A Walker, Janet Walker et al.ARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies2001

  • Solitary Thoughts

    Tadano Makuzu, Janet R Goodwin et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica2001Cited by: 3

    Tadano Makuzu, Janet R. Goodwin, Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Elizabeth A. Leicester, Yuki Terazawa, Anne Walthall, Solitary Thoughts: A Translation of Tadano Makuzu's Hitori Kangae, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 21-38

  • Solitary Thoughts

    Tadano Makuzu, Janet R Goodwin et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica2001Cited by: 2

    IHAVE written this entire text without any sense of modesty or concern about being unduly outspoken. Let me explain why. People customarily humble themselves and seek to avoid appearing overly assertive, but when I came to this place, I resigned myself to my life being over at the age of thirty-five and resolved to regard the move here as the road of death, the journey to hell. Since the world no longer exists for me, it is as though I am no long…

  • Even the Gods Rebel

    Anne Walthall, Selçuk EsenbelARTICLEThe American Historical Review2000

  • The Weak Body of a Useless Woman

    Sharon Sievers, Anne WalthallARTICLEThe American Historical Review2000

  • Remembering Aizu

    Anne Walthall, Shiba Goro et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica2000

    The Meiji Restoration of 1868 is most often seen as a glorious event marking the overthrow of Tokugawa feudalism and the beginning of Japan's modern transformation. Yet it had its dark side. The Aizu domain in northeastern Japan had staunchly supported the old regime. For this it was attacked by the new government's forces from Choshu and Satsuma in the autumn of 1868. Its castle town was burned to the ground, and during a month-long siege, whole…