Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Editors’ Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Patterns of Thought and Action of the Common People during the Bakumatsu and Restoration Epoch 17
6. 2. The Political Background of Early Meiji Educational Policy: The Central Government 83
7. 3. Local Politics and the Development of Secondary Education in the Early Meiji Period: The Case of Kōchi Prefecture 148
8. 4. The Confucian Ideal of Rule by Virtue and the Creation of National Politics: The Political Thought of Tani Tateki 195
9. 5. Meirokusha Thinkers and Early Meiji Enlightenment Thought 238
10. 6. The Statist Movement and Its Educational Activities: The Shimeikai and the Seiseikō of Kumamoto 274
11. 7. The Spirit of Political Opposition in the Meiji Period: The Academic Style of the Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō 317
12. 8. Thought and Education in the Late Meiji Era 354
13. Notes 399
14. Glossary 439
15. Index 457