Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Editor's Preface xiii
6. PART ONE. Strategies for Modernizing
7. Introduction 3
8. CHAPTER I. On the Nature of Western Progress: The Journal of the Iwakura Embassy 7
9. CHAPTER II .Westernization and Japanization: The Early Meiji Transformation of Education 35
10. CHAPTER III. The Japanization of the Middle Meiji 77
11. CHAPTER IV. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and Its Cultural Effects in Japan 121
12. PART TWO. The Arts in the Meiji Period
13. Introduction 179
14. CHAPTER V. Western-Style Painting in the Early Meiji Period and Its Critics 181
15. CHAPTER VI. The Formation of Realism in Meiji Painting: The Artistic Career of Takahashi Yuichi 221
16. CHAPTER VII. The Modern Music of Meiji Japan 257
17. PART THREE. The Search for Identity in Literature
18. Introduction 303
19. CHAPTER VIII. Natsume Sōseki and the Psychological Novel 305
20. CHAPTER IX. Toson and the Autobiographical Novel 347
21. CHAPTER X. Masaoka Shiki and Tanka Reform 379
22. CHAPTER XI. Kobayashi Hideo 419
23. CHAPTER XII. Fukuda Tsuneari: Modernization and Shingeki 463
24. PART FOUR. Philosophy, Religion, and Language
25. Introduction 503
26. CHAPTER XIII. Nishida Kitarō: The Early Years 507
27. CHAPTER XIV. Millenarian Aspects of the New Religions in Japan 563
28. CHAPTER XV. Levels of Speech (keigo) and the Japanese Linguistic Response to Modernization 601
29. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 669
30. Index 673