Kiyozawa Manshi and the Spirit of the Meiji

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-275
Author(s):  
Melissa Anne-Marie Curley
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
Philosophical Writing ◽  
Complex Forms ◽  
Psychological Term ◽  
William Benjamin Carpenter

AbstractSeishinshugi 精神主義, a term associated with the work of Meiji Buddhist reformer Kiyozawa Manshi 清沢満之 (1863–1903), is often read as exemplifying a spiritual turn in mid-Meiji Japan, centering an inner realm of private experience in a reaction against the rationalization of the early Meiji period. This paper considers the use of the term seishin in Kiyozawa’s early work. It finds him treating seishin in two distinct but connected contexts: as a psychological term, influenced particularly by his reading of English physician William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), and as a philosophical term, in conversation with Hegel’s philosophy of spirit. It suggests that an understanding of seishin as developing progressively toward more and more complex forms of consciousness or self-awareness found in both Kiyozawa’s psychological and philosophical writing sheds new light on other aspects of Kiyozawa’s early career.

From Custom to Right: The Politicization of the Village in Early Meiji Japan

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 729-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. William Steele
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Village

In 1874 Itagaki Taisuke and other critics of the newly established Meiji government submitted a petition demanding a popularly elected national assembly. This is said to be the origin of the Liberty and People's Rights Movement (jiyū minken undō). Around the same time a number of local political leaders intensified their campaign for the creation of village assemblies. Although the demand for local autonomy in the early Meiji period was both deep-felt and widespread, only a few scholars, notably Neil Waters, have diverted their attention from Itagaki and other political activists and thinkers at the center. An examination of Meiji local politics is nonetheless essential to understand Japan's modern political development.

Healthcare leadership development during a pandemic: do not stop, adapt

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Judy McKimm ◽  
David Johnstone ◽  
Chloe Mills ◽  
Mohammed Hassanien ◽  
Abdulmonem Al-Hayani
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Leadership Theories ◽  
Healthcare Leadership ◽  
Clinical Leadership ◽  
Clinical Exposure ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Healthcare Crisis

Research carried out in 2016 by two of the authors of this article investigated the role that leadership ‘theory’ plays within an individual's leadership development and identified other components of clinical leadership programmes that are key to enabling the development of future leaders. While early career doctors identified leadership theories and concepts as important within their development as clinical leaders, these must be closely tied to real-life practices and coupled with activities that aim to develop an increased self-awareness, understanding of others, clinical exposure and leadership tools that they can use in practice. During a healthcare crisis, such as a global pandemic, maintaining a focus on leadership development (particularly for more junior clinicians) might not be seen as important, but leadership is needed to help people and organisations ‘get through’ a crisis as well as help develop leadership capacity for the longer term. This article, drawing from contemporary literature, the authors' own research and reflections, discusses how leadership development needs to continually adapt to meet new demands and sets out tips for those involved with clinical leadership development.

Isawa Shūji's “National Music”: National Sentiment and Cultural Westernisation in Meiji Japan

Itinerario ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takenaka Toru
Keyword(s):  
Self Awareness ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Western Influence ◽  
National Sentiment ◽  
Western Civilisation ◽  
To Come ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
New Criteria

Japan's opening up in the mid-1850s and the ensuing spread of Western influence caused a fundamental dislocation in the country's socio-cultural life. Values and habits were rocked to their core after centuries of isolation, and people were quite helpless for how to come to terms with this rapid influx of foreign things. Faced with abrupt and severe changes, they felt deeply disoriented and their self-awareness was considerably shaken. This soon led to differentiation in attitudes toward the Western challenge. Some insisted that people should reconstruct their identity just by adjusting to Western standards. Modernisation was the only choice in their eyes and they believed that Japan should make efforts to adopt Western ways into every aspect of the nation's life. Customs and manners had to be reexamined based on this new criteria and reformed accordingly or, if this was ever impossible, abolished. Others, however, saw in it nothing more than shameful mimicry. They believed that the nation's self-confidence would be lost if people were absorbed in Westernisation. Instead they thought that Japan's cultural backbone should build on the country's long-standing rich traditions, rather than being dazzled by the superficial affluence of Western civilisation.

Engaging with Diversity and Complexity using Collaborative Approaches to Decision Making

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Marissa Samuelson ◽  
Franziska Trede ◽  
Joy Higgs
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Professional Relationship ◽  
Collaborative Decision Making ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Core Capabilities ◽  
Collaborative Decision

A key challenge in contemporary dietetic practice is making collaborative decisions about dietary behaviours with a diverse range of patients. Contemporary decision making frameworks for clinical dietetic practice give value to working in a collaborative manner with patients, however, there remains uncertainty with regards to how and when dietitians might apply this approach in their practice.In this doctoral research project, Author 1 used a philosophical hermeneutic approach to deepen understanding of a collaborative approach to decision making in dietetic practice. She also explored the core capabilities required to enact such an approach in early career dietetic practice. The experiences and perceptions of patients and dietitians were explored using in depth interviews and individualized reflective practice activities.The findings suggest that collaborative decision making in dietetic practice is situational and requires the development of a caring and trusting professional relationship to be effective. Other core capabilities needed to enact this approach relate to developing self awareness, establishing an open and transparent dialogue, identifying and exploring common ground and finding the time to think and talk.The final product of the research, the Interpretive Engagement Model of Collaborative Decision Making (Author 1, 2013), can be used as a framework to help practitioners to reflect on their decision making practice.Early exposure in tertiary education to critical dialogues and questioning current practices will cultivate early career dietitians’ capabilities to develop their collaborative decision making practice in future.

scholarly journals Education and ‘Civilization’

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2021/1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferenc Takó
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Educational Reforms ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
The Family ◽  
Education Of Women ◽  
Meiji Era

Studies on the transformation of the Japanese educational system in the Meiji period usually emphasise the intensity of reforms and their comprehensive character. In the framework of the present study, I will briefly summarise the central aspects of this transformation, then turn to the examination of the tension manifested in Meiji period discourses on education. This is a tension that emerges when one compares the interpretation of the Meiji era as the introduction of ‘enlightened’ Western liberalism with the ideology of centralised reform, far from being as liberal as reported by Meiji period intellectuals themselves. I draw attention to this tension as manifested in the purposes of Meiji educational reforms, then I turn to the analysis of the education of women as a central question in terms of the interpretation of the family in Meiji Japan. The analysis is based on the writings of the leading intellectuals of the time, basically their essays published in the famous journal of the 1870s, Meiroku Zasshi 明六雑誌.

Fukuzawa Reconsidered: Gakumon no susume and Its Audience

1978 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 677-696
Author(s):  
Earl H. Kinmonth
Keyword(s):  
Government Service ◽  
Personal Power ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
Spiritual Culture

Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835–1901) is quite possibly the best-known, most widely studied, and most frequently quoted writer of the early Meiji period. More of his writings have been translated into English than those of any other nonliterary Meiji writer. So much attention is given to Fukuzawa that he often appears as the Meiji intellectual. One recent textbook describes him as nothing less than “the most influential man in Meiji Japan outside government service.” In another description he is portrayed as “one of the most remarkable” of men, one of that small number of men who move history through their own personal power, and “the man who above all others” explained Western material and spiritual culture to Meiji Japanese. Overall, scholars have been only slightly more reticent in describing Fukuzawa's importance than he himself was. In his own view, the reforms undertaken in the early Meiji period were influenced by himself to such a degree that it was appropriate to say “If I did not chiefly initiate them, I think I may have been indirectly influential in bringing them about.”

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