Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTRIBUTORS VII
3. CONTENTS IX
4. Introduction: Perspectives on Personality in Japanese History 1
5. Human Nature in the Japanese Myths 29
6. Ikeda Mitsumasa and the Bizen Flood of 1654 57
7. Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the Genroku Shogun 85
8. Okura Nagatsune and the Technologists 127
9. Oshio Heihachiro (1793-1837) 155
10. Political Reconciliation in the Tokugawa Bakufu: Abe Masahiro and Tokugawa Nariaki, 1844-1852 180
11. Shimazu Nariakira and the Emergence of National Leadership in Satsuma 209
12. The Bakumatsu Intellectual in Action: Hashimoto Sanai in the Political Crisis of 1858 234
13. Kido Koin and Okubo Toshimichi: A Psychohistorical Analysis 264
14. Mutsu Munemitsu 309
15. The Other Ito: A Political Failure 335
16. Kayahara Kazan and Japanese Cosmopolitanism 373
17. Nagai Ryütarö: The Tactical Dilemmas of Reform 399
18. Akutagawa Ryünosuke and the Negative Ideal 425
19. Index 453