Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the Edo Period: Essays in Honour of W.J. Boot

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Anna Beerens, Mark Teeuwen
BRILL, 3. svi 2012. - Broj stranica: 259
Intellectual life in Edo-period Japan was sometimes harmoniously productive, sometimes destructively vicious, but never stagnant. This volume, compiled in honour of Prof. W.J. Boot, offers eleven essays that explore the intellectual scene of Edo-period Japan from a variety of perspectives.
 

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Aspects of intellectual life in Edo Japan
1
Intellectual Networks
11
An antiquarian society in Edo 182425
13
The network of Myōhōin no miya Shinnin Hōshinnō 17681805
35
Legitimizing Tokugawa Rule
53
Some Edo responses to Confuciuss characterization of Kings Wen and Wu
55
The Shōheizaka academy and late Tokugawa reform
75
An early Edo history of SinoJapanese poetry
93
Insincere blessings? CourtBakufu relations and the creation of engi scrolls in honour of Tokugawa Ieyasu
159
Western Connections
179
Whats in a name? Padre João Rodriguezs discussion of naming practices in his Short grammar of the Japanese language
181
An explosive dictionary
197
From Sengoku to Genroku Nagasaki to Edo via Manila
221
List of publications by Prof Dr Willem Jan Boot
241
List of contributors
251
Index
255

Ideology or rhetoric?
109
Its significance for Zōjōji and its role in the diffusion of Tokugawa myths
129

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Anna Beerens, PhD (2006) in Japanese Studies, University of Leiden, works as an editor and is active as an independent scholar specializing the the social and institutional history of early modern Japan. Her most recent publication "Interview with Two Ladies of the Ooku" appeared in Monumenta Nipponicavol. 63, no. 2 (2008).Mark Teeuwen, PhD (1996) in Japanese Studies, University of Leiden, is Professor at Oslo University. He has published extensively on the history of kami cults and Shinto. His latest book is A new history of Shinto (2010, co-authored with John Breen).

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