Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History

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303 Index Adorno, Theodor, 231 adventure: depiction of “beautiful women,” 87–88, 101; magazines for boys, 59–60, 83; novel Kaijin tettō (The Mysterious Creature of the Steel Tower) (Oshikawa Shunrō), 90–92, 101; novel Shin kaitei ryokō (New Travels on the Bottom of the Sea) (Uka Senshi/Shibue Tamotsu), 86, 93–94; novels/magazines of Meiji period, 60, 66–67, 74, 83– 89; novels share antigovernment sentiments, 83. See also Bōken sekai (Adventure World) agrarian nationalism (nōhonshūgi), 213, 225 Agricultural Cooperative Association (Nōkyō), 216. See also Ie no hikari (Light of the Home) agricultural cooperative movement, 217–219 Alfred of Britain, Prince, 22 Altman, Rick, 84 Ambaras, David R., 195–196, 247n31 Anderson, Benedict, 2–3, 279n148 Andō Hiroshige, 133 antiques, 159, 269n97 Aoyagi Yūbi, 58 Arjun Appadurai, 196 Asahi Heigo, 116–117 Ashikaga Takauji, 79 Baba Kochō, 54 Bakunin, Mikhail, 115, 247n40 bankara (rough), 43, 53, 59, 62–64, 67; defined, 56–58, 119, 252; and gender identity, 253n135 barmaid (shakufu), 190 Battle of Goryōkaku, 127 Battle of the Sea of Japan, 160 Battle of Tōba-Fushimi, 124, 248n54 Battle of Ueno Hill, 131, 134 Baudelaire, Charles, 1, 54 Baxandall, Michael, 135 Benjamin, Walter, 2, 173, 235, 238, 271n136, 280n9 Ben-Yehuda, Nachman, 185 Bigot, Georges, 44 Blos, Peter, 101 Bōken sekai (Adventure World), 60, 64, 304 INdEx Bōken sekai (continued) 66–67, 83–84; haikara students vs. bankara students, 62–63; hazing rituals , 61; “heroes and troubled times” (eiyū to fū’un), 107–108; hero worship, 105, 107; militarized masculinity and bare-chested muscular heroes, 64. See also Oshikawa Shunrō Boortsin, Daniel J., 107 Boshin War (1868–1869), 124–125, 129, 131–132, 143, 157, 174, 248n54 Bourdieu, Pierre, 215 Boym, Svetlana, 2, 10 Brass, Paul R., 11, 243n11, 245n6 Breuilly, John, 10, 245n6 brothels, 29, 192–193, 273n39 Buckle, Henry Thomas, 136 Buddhism, 180 Butler, Judith, 72, 237, 255n6 café waitresses (jokyū), 184, 189, 191– 192. See also brothels; prostitutes Carlyle, Thomas, 75, 77–80, 82, 108, 256nn18–19, 256n25; On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, 77. See also Yamaji Aizan Carroll, Noël, 89, 258n59 castration complex, 73; and separation anxiety, 238; symbolic, 239, 257n29. See also sexuality ceremonial dress (reifuku), 150, 267n70 Chatterjee, Partha, 71 Chikamatsu Monzaemon, 163 Chodorow, Nancy J., 99–100, 255n8 Christianity, 76, 137, 139, 143 Chūshingura, 132, 164, 265n32 civilization, 22–23, 26–28, 40–42, 48, 68–71, 88, 124, 129, 133, 139– 140, 175, 239–240, 246n23, 281n23; civilization and progress, 68–69; civilization vs. culture, 215, 277n111; “false civilization” (nise bunmei), 60, 85–86; history of civilization (bunmei-shi), 136–138, 141, 144, 265– 266n46; Japanese civilization, 128, 156, 164–165; material civilization, 40, 60, 71, 87, 249n67; primitive civilization , 88, 193; rejection of, 58–59, 67, 74, 254n145 civilization and enlightenment (bunmei kaika), 10, 12, 42, 68, 138, 155, 179, 250–251n93; opposition to, 123, 136, 155, 174, 277n111 Clifford, James, 193 closed country (sakoku), 13, 66, 137–144, 263n7 Cohen, Stanley, 185 comic storytelling (rakugo), 179 countryside (denen), 178–187, 201– 202, 209–211; backwardness and tastelessness of countryside, 179; customs and manners, 216, 219– 220, 228–229; economic crisis, 191, 193, 217, 227; fashions, 177– 178, 185, 216, 231; idealization of the countryside, 17, 194, 201, 212– 213, 216, 225–226, 233; moral panic, 185–186; rural exodus, 187–190, 200, 222; spread of mass culture, 191–192, 227, 232 Critcher, Chas, 187 cultural identity, 11, 18, 70, 124, 177; Japanese, 174, 232 customs and manners ( fūzoku). See manners and customs ( fūzoku) daijōsai (festival of great eating), 213 Dan Takuma, 119 de Certeau, Michel, 123, 261n105 Deleuze, Gilles, 19, 92, 95 depopulation (kasoku mondai) in rural areas, 233 Derrida, Jacques, 237 Dinnerstein, Dorothy, 99 Doak, Kevin M., 14, 66, 242n11, 244n17, 245n6 INdEx 305 Dōchū hizakurige (Ikku Jippensha), 67 Duus, Peter, 38, 251n97 Edo, invention of, 12–13, 123–124, 174, 263n7 Edo Castle: capture of, 157; occupation of, 151; surrender of, 124, 130, 131, 147 Edo cultural history, 141 Edo cultural preservation movements, 124–125 Edo geijutsu ron (The Arts of Edo) (Nagai Kafū), 153 Edokai, 128, 147, 264n19 Edo tastes (Edo shumi), 155–158, 172–173; nostalgia for the tastes and styles of, 122, 153, 169 Eliade, Mircea, 237–238; Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, 72, 237–238 Elias, Norbert, 27 Enomoto Takeaki, 76...