Mark Thomas Mcnally
Biographic Data
| ID | 1154671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Thomas Mcnally |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcnally |
| SIGNATURE | MCNALLY M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3883-3633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Appearance and Disappearance of Ryukyu: The Historical Views of Tō Teikan, Motoori Norinaga, and Ueda Akinari
Two of the renowned figures of Edo-era Kokugaku (National Learning), Motoori Norinaga and Ueda Akinari, famously debated the merits of their scholarly approaches to Japanese antiquity during the latter half of the eighteenth century. Their intellectual dispute was the result of the radical conclusions reached by Tō Teikan in his Shōkōhatsu (An Outburst of Provocations; 1781) in which he argued that the Korean peninsula and China influenced ancien…
Tokugawa Japan From the “Outside” and the Inside: Wagaku and Kokugaku, Etics and Emics, Nationalism and Exceptionalism
During the Edo period, the study of Japanese antiquity, especially its religious and literary aspects, went by various names, but the two most common of these were wagaku and Kokugaku. In theory, both of these terms mostly signified the same thing, and so they should have been interchangeable. In fact, the usage of both during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries suggests just that. However, some scholars of the time did not think these terms …
Analogous Exceptionalisms within Japanese and American History: Kokugaku and Transcendentalism
Japanologists have identified the intellectual movement called Kokugaku ("national learning") as early modern Japan's version of nativism, even though it bears no resemblance to the original American version of nativism from the 1840s, namely Know-Nothingism. Instead, Kokugaku had striking intellectual and institutional similarities with pre-Civil War Transcendentalism. Americanists have associated Transcendentalism with the broader ideological p…
Hostile Natives: Violence in the Histories of American and Japanese Nativism
This article shows how inaccurate the category of nativism-derived from American historiography-is when applied to the Japanese context prevailing when National Learning (Kokugaku) was flourishing. It argues that violence is not a distinctive feature of Kokugaku and suggests that the association between nativism and Kokugaku in Japanese studies is flawed. This is further complicated by examining instances of physical violence directed at foreigne…
Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan
The paradigmatic connection between Kokugaku and nativism is misleading and even wrong. In the humanities and the social sciences, nativism either describes anti-immigrant political movements or reactions to colonial domination, and neither of these is relevant to the case of Kokugaku. Instead, ideas and events associated with sonnō-jō'i conform more closely to how the historiographical category of nativism is used outside of Japanese studies. At…
Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan
Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan probes the association of the early modern Japanese intellectual institution called Kokugaku with the phenomenon of nativism. Uncovering profound differences that cast serious doubt on this association, Mark McNally argues that what Japanologists viewed as nativistic about Kokugaku were actually more typical of what Americanists call exceptionalism. By severing the link between Koku…
The Sandaikō Debate: The Issue of Orthodoxy in Late Tokugawa Nativism
This article singles out a turning point in the development of the Nativist School (kokugaku), which was initiated by the so-called Sandaiko debate. A detailed analysis of this debate indicates that the issue at stake was actually the methodological approach of evidential learning in the tradition of kokugaku's pre-eminent figure Motoori Norinaga. This quasi-scientific approach was challenged by Hirata Atsutane who spearheaded the reintroduction …
Hostile Natives: Violence in the Histories of American and Japanese Nativism
This article shows how inaccurate the category of nativism-derived from American historiography-is when applied to the Japanese context prevailing when National Learning (Kokugaku) was flourishing. It argues that violence is not a distinctive feature of Kokugaku and suggests that the association between nativism and Kokugaku in Japanese studies is flawed. This is further complicated by examining instances of physical violence directed at foreigne…
The Sandaikō Debate: The Issue of Orthodoxy in Late Tokugawa Nativism
This article singles out a turning point in the development of the Nativist School (kokugaku), which was initiated by the so-called Sandaiko debate. A detailed analysis of this debate indicates that the issue at stake was actually the methodological approach of evidential learning in the tradition of kokugaku's pre-eminent figure Motoori Norinaga. This quasi-scientific approach was challenged by Hirata Atsutane who spearheaded the reintroduction …
Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan
The paradigmatic connection between Kokugaku and nativism is misleading and even wrong. In the humanities and the social sciences, nativism either describes anti-immigrant political movements or reactions to colonial domination, and neither of these is relevant to the case of Kokugaku. Instead, ideas and events associated with sonnō-jō'i conform more closely to how the historiographical category of nativism is used outside of Japanese studies. At…
Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan
Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan probes the association of the early modern Japanese intellectual institution called Kokugaku with the phenomenon of nativism. Uncovering profound differences that cast serious doubt on this association, Mark McNally argues that what Japanologists viewed as nativistic about Kokugaku were actually more typical of what Americanists call exceptionalism. By severing the link between Koku…
Hostile Natives: Violence in the Histories of American and Japanese Nativism
This article shows how inaccurate the category of nativism-derived from American historiography-is when applied to the Japanese context prevailing when National Learning (Kokugaku) was flourishing. It argues that violence is not a distinctive feature of Kokugaku and suggests that the association between nativism and Kokugaku in Japanese studies is flawed. This is further complicated by examining instances of physical violence directed at foreigne…
Analogous Exceptionalisms within Japanese and American History: Kokugaku and Transcendentalism
Japanologists have identified the intellectual movement called Kokugaku ("national learning") as early modern Japan's version of nativism, even though it bears no resemblance to the original American version of nativism from the 1840s, namely Know-Nothingism. Instead, Kokugaku had striking intellectual and institutional similarities with pre-Civil War Transcendentalism. Americanists have associated Transcendentalism with the broader ideological p…
Tokugawa Japan From the “Outside” and the Inside: Wagaku and Kokugaku, Etics and Emics, Nationalism and Exceptionalism
During the Edo period, the study of Japanese antiquity, especially its religious and literary aspects, went by various names, but the two most common of these were wagaku and Kokugaku. In theory, both of these terms mostly signified the same thing, and so they should have been interchangeable. In fact, the usage of both during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries suggests just that. However, some scholars of the time did not think these terms …
The Appearance and Disappearance of Ryukyu: The Historical Views of Tō Teikan, Motoori Norinaga, and Ueda Akinari
Two of the renowned figures of Edo-era Kokugaku (National Learning), Motoori Norinaga and Ueda Akinari, famously debated the merits of their scholarly approaches to Japanese antiquity during the latter half of the eighteenth century. Their intellectual dispute was the result of the radical conclusions reached by Tō Teikan in his Shōkōhatsu (An Outburst of Provocations; 1781) in which he argued that the Korean peninsula and China influenced ancien…
Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Psychological nativism (5 works) · American exceptionalism (4 works) · Exceptionalism (4 works) · Ideology (3 works)