Marcia Yonemoto
Biographic Data
| ID | 1253595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcia Yonemoto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcia |
| FAMILY NAME | Yonemoto |
| SIGNATURE | YONEMOTO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of ColoradoBoulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Simon Partner. Koume’s World
In the Shelter of the Pine
What Is a Family? Answers from Early Modern Japan
What Is a Family? explores the histories of diverse households during the Tokugawa period in Japan (1603–1868). The households studied here differ in locale and in status—from samurai to outcaste, peasant to merchant—but what unites them is life within the social order of the Tokugawa shogunate. The circumstances and choices that made one household unlike another were framed, then as now, by prevailing laws, norms, and controls on resources. Thes…
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan
Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During this time, however, women had considerable power to directly affect social structure, political practice, and economic production. This apparent contradiction between official norms and experienced realities lies at the heart of The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan. Examining prescriptive literature and instructional manu…
Mapping Early Modern Japan
This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes—including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias—to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial pub…
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan
Contrary to popular perceptions of premodern Japanese women as oppressed and subjugated by patriarchal norms, this book contends that when we read texts by and about women written between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, we see a broad and complex picture of women’s lives, one in which women were far from passive or powerless. Instead, women were seen as active participants in society who could effect both positive and negative change. T…
Ōoku
Reviewed by: Ōoku: The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women by Cecilia Segawa Seigle and Linda H. Chance Marcia Yonemoto (bio) Ōoku: The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women. By Cecilia Segawa Seigle and Linda H. Chance. Cambria Press, Amherst, N.Y., 2014. xviii, 352 pages. $119.99, cloth; $39.99, E-book. Until recently, avid viewers of Japanese prime-time television dramas could claim to know more about the Ōoku, the women’s quarters of the shogunal…
Homemaking as Placemaking
Women, Words, and Images in Early Modern and Modern Japan’
Outside the inner quarters
This paper moves between text and context in order to trace the personal, familial and narrative connections between two women, Nakayama Suzuko (b. c. 1675), wife of a Mito domain official stationed in Edo, and her sister-in-law Kuroda Tosako (1682–1758), wife of an official of Tatebayashi domain. Drawing on four extant texts – two travel accounts and two diary/memoirs – the paper argues that, although marriage and family fundamentally shaped the…
Europe through the Prism of Japan
This work analyzes the image Europe presented to Japan, deliberately or otherwise, from the mid-16th century to the end of the 18th century. It covers developments in Japanese culture and civilization during 300 years of interaction between Japanese and Europeans, including Dutch merchants, Spanish Catholic missionaries, and German and Portuguese Jesuits. The author examines not only Europeans' influence on Japan but also the unique Japanese inte…
Special Issue
The articles presented here grew out of a year-long discussion of the spatial dimensions of historical and cultural change in various parts of Asia during the early modern and modern periods. Each essay engages the ways in which geographies-here defined as visual and verbal discourses about space-perform political and cultural work. That is, we examine how geographies in Asia were deployed strategically, whether to map, narrate, frame, relocate, …
The "Spatial Vernacular" in Tokugawa Maps
As key components of the "peculiar metaphysic of modernity," geographers in nineteenth-century Japan began to remap the world in the name of science and "civilization" (Mitchell 1991, xii). What is often overlooked in this equation of the map with modernity, however, is Japan's history of mapmaking before the modern period. Although the earliest imperial governments in Japan practiced administrative mapmaking on a limited scale beginning in the s…
Maps and Metaphors of the "Small Eastern Sea" in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)
This article examines the ways in which oceans were depicted in Japanese geographical writings and maps from the Tokugawa period. It uses these texts to understand how early modern Japanese visions of the Pacific and of maritime Asian waters constructed epistemological frameworks through which the Japanese saw their place in an increasingly complex web of regional and global connections. In the absence of actual adventure on the "high seas," Japa…
Maps and Metaphors of the "Small Eastern Sea" in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)
This article examines the ways in which oceans were depicted in Japanese geographical writings and maps from the Tokugawa period. It uses these texts to understand how early modern Japanese visions of the Pacific and of maritime Asian waters constructed epistemological frameworks through which the Japanese saw their place in an increasingly complex web of regional and global connections. In the absence of actual adventure on the "high seas," Japa…
Special Issue
The articles presented here grew out of a year-long discussion of the spatial dimensions of historical and cultural change in various parts of Asia during the early modern and modern periods. Each essay engages the ways in which geographies-here defined as visual and verbal discourses about space-perform political and cultural work. That is, we examine how geographies in Asia were deployed strategically, whether to map, narrate, frame, relocate, …
The "Spatial Vernacular" in Tokugawa Maps
As key components of the "peculiar metaphysic of modernity," geographers in nineteenth-century Japan began to remap the world in the name of science and "civilization" (Mitchell 1991, xii). What is often overlooked in this equation of the map with modernity, however, is Japan's history of mapmaking before the modern period. Although the earliest imperial governments in Japan practiced administrative mapmaking on a limited scale beginning in the s…
Outside the inner quarters
This paper moves between text and context in order to trace the personal, familial and narrative connections between two women, Nakayama Suzuko (b. c. 1675), wife of a Mito domain official stationed in Edo, and her sister-in-law Kuroda Tosako (1682–1758), wife of an official of Tatebayashi domain. Drawing on four extant texts – two travel accounts and two diary/memoirs – the paper argues that, although marriage and family fundamentally shaped the…
Maps and Metaphors of the "Small Eastern Sea" in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)
This article examines the ways in which oceans were depicted in Japanese geographical writings and maps from the Tokugawa period. It uses these texts to understand how early modern Japanese visions of the Pacific and of maritime Asian waters constructed epistemological frameworks through which the Japanese saw their place in an increasingly complex web of regional and global connections. In the absence of actual adventure on the "high seas," Japa…
Special Issue
The articles presented here grew out of a year-long discussion of the spatial dimensions of historical and cultural change in various parts of Asia during the early modern and modern periods. Each essay engages the ways in which geographies-here defined as visual and verbal discourses about space-perform political and cultural work. That is, we examine how geographies in Asia were deployed strategically, whether to map, narrate, frame, relocate, …
The "Spatial Vernacular" in Tokugawa Maps
As key components of the "peculiar metaphysic of modernity," geographers in nineteenth-century Japan began to remap the world in the name of science and "civilization" (Mitchell 1991, xii). What is often overlooked in this equation of the map with modernity, however, is Japan's history of mapmaking before the modern period. Although the earliest imperial governments in Japan practiced administrative mapmaking on a limited scale beginning in the s…
Europe through the Prism of Japan
This work analyzes the image Europe presented to Japan, deliberately or otherwise, from the mid-16th century to the end of the 18th century. It covers developments in Japanese culture and civilization during 300 years of interaction between Japanese and Europeans, including Dutch merchants, Spanish Catholic missionaries, and German and Portuguese Jesuits. The author examines not only Europeans' influence on Japan but also the unique Japanese inte…
Outside the inner quarters
This paper moves between text and context in order to trace the personal, familial and narrative connections between two women, Nakayama Suzuko (b. c. 1675), wife of a Mito domain official stationed in Edo, and her sister-in-law Kuroda Tosako (1682–1758), wife of an official of Tatebayashi domain. Drawing on four extant texts – two travel accounts and two diary/memoirs – the paper argues that, although marriage and family fundamentally shaped the…
Women, Words, and Images in Early Modern and Modern Japan’
Homemaking as Placemaking
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan
Contrary to popular perceptions of premodern Japanese women as oppressed and subjugated by patriarchal norms, this book contends that when we read texts by and about women written between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, we see a broad and complex picture of women’s lives, one in which women were far from passive or powerless. Instead, women were seen as active participants in society who could effect both positive and negative change. T…
Ōoku
Reviewed by: Ōoku: The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women by Cecilia Segawa Seigle and Linda H. Chance Marcia Yonemoto (bio) Ōoku: The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women. By Cecilia Segawa Seigle and Linda H. Chance. Cambria Press, Amherst, N.Y., 2014. xviii, 352 pages. $119.99, cloth; $39.99, E-book. Until recently, avid viewers of Japanese prime-time television dramas could claim to know more about the Ōoku, the women’s quarters of the shogunal…
What Is a Family? Answers from Early Modern Japan
What Is a Family? explores the histories of diverse households during the Tokugawa period in Japan (1603–1868). The households studied here differ in locale and in status—from samurai to outcaste, peasant to merchant—but what unites them is life within the social order of the Tokugawa shogunate. The circumstances and choices that made one household unlike another were framed, then as now, by prevailing laws, norms, and controls on resources. Thes…
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan
Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During this time, however, women had considerable power to directly affect social structure, political practice, and economic production. This apparent contradiction between official norms and experienced realities lies at the heart of The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan. Examining prescriptive literature and instructional manu…
Mapping Early Modern Japan
This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes—including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias—to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial pub…
Simon Partner. Koume’s World
In the Shelter of the Pine
History (12 works) · Japanese History and Culture (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Literature (4 works)