Plots and Motives in Japan's Meiji Restoration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George M Wilson (Indiana University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 407-427 |
| Publication date | 1983-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500010525 |
| OpenAlex | W2002462871 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
Like other dramatic and discontinuous historical processes, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 possesses the inherent fascination to sustain yet another rehearsal of its basic course of events. The present one differs from others in several ways. It does not center on samurai heroes and villains contesting foreign incursion. Instead it identifies fully four groups that acted during the late Tokugawa era, the years 1850-68, known by the generic periodizing word bakumatsu-'the end of the bakufu,' that is, of the shogun's government situated at Edo. It presents each group according to the experiences and motives of its members. It points to the interactions between the four narrative structures, the plots ormythoi, but without homogenizing them into a unitary historiographical line. It also recognizes the necessary prefiguration of the historian's field but tries nevertheless to convey the perceived intentions of the four groups of historical actors
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Field (mathematics) · Government (linguistics) · Historiography · Linguistics · Literature · Meiji period · Meiji Restoration · Narrative · Political science · Situated · Sociology · Unitary state · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2013 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |