Mary Elizabeth Berry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Elizabeth Berry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Berry |
| SIGNATURE | BERRY M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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…
Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period
A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. They subsequently circulated their findings through a variety of commercially printed texts: maps, gazetteers, family encycl…
Saying Yes! to Now
This article is taken from the author’s presidential address at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, delivered on August 3, 2018. It explores the structural and personal sources of Japan’s surprisingly successful transition, in the decades around 1600, to an urban-centered market economy. Particular attention is devoted to artistic innovation as one indicator of the “climate of change” that enable…
Public Life in Authoritarian Japan
The authoritarianism of Japanese regimes before the Allied Occupation is a simple matter of fact. The liberal vanguard had embraced the ballot but not any consequent surrender of imperial authority, the dignity of the subject but not any consequent entitlement of the citizen. Authoritarianism elevates the state above social control because it is premised on the superiority of rulers to the people. Authoritarian rule in Tokugawa Japan had a peculi…
(Even Radical) Illustration Requires (Normalizing) Convention: The Case of ‘Genre Art’ in Early Modern Japan
Pictures that portray the ‘now’ of a lived reality from the vantage of witnesses emerged in Japan during the 17th century, when the mundane social life of contemporary commoners blasted into the visual repertoire of illustrated books. This change, a revolutionary one, belongs to the broader experience of early modernity, from Amsterdam to Nanjing, as seismic economic transitions helped occasion a new immediacy in social representation. Yet the ra…
Presidential Address-Samurai Trouble: Thoughts on War and Loyalty
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Architecture and Authority in Japan
Was Early Modern Japan Culturally Integrated
In an earlier draft of his essay, Professor Lieberman quoted, with some bemusement, a remark by Edwin O. Reischauer that has flown from the text but stuck in memory. Japan during the Tokugawa era, observed E.O.R., achieved 'a greater degree of cultural, intellectual, and ideological conformity ... than any other country in the world ... before the nineteenth century.' The claim is remarkable-no less for its tone than for its unlikelihood (were we…
The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto
The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto
The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto
The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto
How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan's Warring States period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed the medieval order and exposed the framework of an early modern polity. Mary Elizabeth Berry investigates the experience of upheaval in Kyoto during this time. Using diaries and urban records (extensively quoted in the text), Berry explores the violence of war, misrule, private justice, outlawry, and popular uprising…
The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3: Medieval Japan
The Bakufu in Japanese History
Public Peace and Private Attachment: The Goals and Conduct of Power in Early Modern Japan
Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi
Restoring the Past: The Documents of Hideyoshi's Magistrate in Kyoto
IMAGES of destruction and of change loom largest in modern portrayals of Japan's era of warring states (1467-1590). Civil war of unprecedented length and mounting ferocity, we see in retrospect, brought ruin to the political order of the Ashikaga shogunate, to households and institutions dependent upon the old regime, and to the very assumptions men held about their polity and society. War also brought, in the wake of upheaval, that trans-, forma…
Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi
Public Official or Feudal Lord
Japan in the Muromachi Age
Was Early Modern Japan Culturally Integrated
In an earlier draft of his essay, Professor Lieberman quoted, with some bemusement, a remark by Edwin O. Reischauer that has flown from the text but stuck in memory. Japan during the Tokugawa era, observed E.O.R., achieved 'a greater degree of cultural, intellectual, and ideological conformity ... than any other country in the world ... before the nineteenth century.' The claim is remarkable-no less for its tone than for its unlikelihood (were we…
Public Peace and Private Attachment: The Goals and Conduct of Power in Early Modern Japan
The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3: Medieval Japan
Japan in the Muromachi Age
Public Official or Feudal Lord
Hideyoshi
Restoring the Past: The Documents of Hideyoshi's Magistrate in Kyoto
IMAGES of destruction and of change loom largest in modern portrayals of Japan's era of warring states (1467-1590). Civil war of unprecedented length and mounting ferocity, we see in retrospect, brought ruin to the political order of the Ashikaga shogunate, to households and institutions dependent upon the old regime, and to the very assumptions men held about their polity and society. War also brought, in the wake of upheaval, that trans-, forma…
Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi
Public Peace and Private Attachment: The Goals and Conduct of Power in Early Modern Japan
The Bakufu in Japanese History
The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3: Medieval Japan
The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto
How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan's Warring States period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed the medieval order and exposed the framework of an early modern polity. Mary Elizabeth Berry investigates the experience of upheaval in Kyoto during this time. Using diaries and urban records (extensively quoted in the text), Berry explores the violence of war, misrule, private justice, outlawry, and popular uprising…
The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto
The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto
The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto
Was Early Modern Japan Culturally Integrated
In an earlier draft of his essay, Professor Lieberman quoted, with some bemusement, a remark by Edwin O. Reischauer that has flown from the text but stuck in memory. Japan during the Tokugawa era, observed E.O.R., achieved 'a greater degree of cultural, intellectual, and ideological conformity ... than any other country in the world ... before the nineteenth century.' The claim is remarkable-no less for its tone than for its unlikelihood (were we…
Architecture and Authority in Japan
Presidential Address-Samurai Trouble: Thoughts on War and Loyalty
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
(Even Radical) Illustration Requires (Normalizing) Convention: The Case of ‘Genre Art’ in Early Modern Japan
Pictures that portray the ‘now’ of a lived reality from the vantage of witnesses emerged in Japan during the 17th century, when the mundane social life of contemporary commoners blasted into the visual repertoire of illustrated books. This change, a revolutionary one, belongs to the broader experience of early modernity, from Amsterdam to Nanjing, as seismic economic transitions helped occasion a new immediacy in social representation. Yet the ra…
Public Life in Authoritarian Japan
The authoritarianism of Japanese regimes before the Allied Occupation is a simple matter of fact. The liberal vanguard had embraced the ballot but not any consequent surrender of imperial authority, the dignity of the subject but not any consequent entitlement of the citizen. Authoritarianism elevates the state above social control because it is premised on the superiority of rulers to the people. Authoritarian rule in Tokugawa Japan had a peculi…
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…
Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period
A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. They subsequently circulated their findings through a variety of commercially printed texts: maps, gazetteers, family encycl…
Saying Yes! to Now
This article is taken from the author’s presidential address at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, delivered on August 3, 2018. It explores the structural and personal sources of Japan’s surprisingly successful transition, in the decades around 1600, to an urban-centered market economy. Particular attention is devoted to artistic innovation as one indicator of the “climate of change” that enable…
Japanese History and Culture (19 works) · Political science (14 works) · History (12 works) · Law (10 works) · History (8 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Politics (4 works)