Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan

by Michael Wert

Book Overview

This book is about the "losers" of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Although the violence of the Meiji Restoration is typically downplayed, the trauma was real, and those who felt marginalized from the mainstream throughout modern Japan looked to these losers as models of action.

Using a wide range of sources, from essays by former Tokugawa supporters like Fukuzawa Yukichi to postwar film and "lost decade"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674726707
• ISBN13: 9780674726703
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"