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xi Acknowledgments This book began as an attempt to resolve some problems posed by my first book. Three scholars provided me with key departure points: While I was doing an article on the abolition of Tosa domain at the time of the Meiji Restoration , Professor Mitani Hiroshi provided a thoughtful critique and advice concerning differences between the Tokugawa period and the Meiji period. Professor Watanabe Hiroshi’s research on Tokugawa governmental ideology then supplied fundamental inspiration and my start at a methodological approach to historical terminology. Professor Ronald Toby’s critique of my use of the notion of “country” to mean “daimyo domain” in my first book forced me to rethink the relationship between governmental space and language use. Additionally, along the way of my investigations, I also found particularly helpful inspirations in the research of Ōhira Yuichi on law, Peter Nosco, Alan Grapard, and Haga Shōji on religion, Takagi Shōsaku and Kasaya Kazuhiko on warrior society, and Philip Brown and Herman Ooms on political culture, all of whom I would like to mention here with particular thanks. This is just the tip of the iceberg of my intellectual debt, and I acknowledge many other scholars’ valuable research in the footnotes. I have taken many years to research and write this book, and I have incurred a tremendous debt of gratitude to many people and institutions. The following institutions contributed crucial financial and other support: The Japan Foundation provided me with a Faculty Research Fellowship in 1994– 1995, thanks to which I began research on this and another project. During that year the Faculty of Economics at Doshisha University supplied me with acknowledgments xii all of the benefits of visiting scholar status. The American Philosophical Society gave me a Sabbatical Leave Fellowship in 2004–2005 for a year of further research and writing. The National Museum of History and Ethnography in Sakura, Japan, provided a summer fellowship in 2008 at its institution, during which time I made my final key research advances. The UCSB Division of Humanities and Fine Arts and the UCSB Academic Senate offered important support at various times during this project. The staff of Kōchi University, Kōchi Prefecture Library, Kōchi City Library, and the Yamauchi Shrine Treasury and Archives all gave me the finest assistance possible whenever I showed up. The secretarial staff at the Tahara Municipal Museum were most helpful when I visited. Thanks to the following people for assistance and advice at various stages: Dani Botsman and Tsukada Takashi in Osaka, Kurushima Hiroshi and Hoya Tōru in Tokyo, and Ōhira Yuichi and Fujita Teiichirō in Kyoto. My friends and teachers in Kōchi—Akizawa Shigeru, Ogi Shin’ichirō, Takahashi Shirō, Uchikawa Kiyosuke, Yorimitsu Kanji, and Moriguchi Kōji (a dear friend who passed away while I was working on this project)—all helped me immensely with their learning, kindness, and generosity. Thinking on them and my other friends in Kōchi reminds me daily why I love Tosa so much. James Baxter, James Brooks, Suzy Cincone, Joshua Fogel, Helen Hardacre, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, David Howell, Kate Nakai, Constantine Vaporis, and Anne Walthall all provided assistance and comments concerning drafts of various chapters. My mother, Betty Roberts, and my sister Peggy Roberts greatly improved the readability of this book by providing careful editing of the nearcompleted manuscript. My brother Andrew Roberts created maps and figures for the book. Thanks also to Patricia Crosby and the staff of the University of Hawai‘i Press, as well as copy editor Rosemary Wetherold, for their kind assistance and support and for improving the manuscript in its final stages. What mistakes remain are purely my own responsibility. Thanks to Yachiyo for helping me in life throughout, and to our children, May and Ken, who give me much pride and happiness. ...

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