Ethnography, Kokugaku, and Community in Modern Japan

2021 ◽  
pp. 229-238
Author(s):  
Gideon Fujiwara
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Modern Japan ◽  
Aomori Prefecture

The concluding chapter documents the transition of the country of Tsugaru from early modern Tokugawa society to the modern Meiji nation-state, through the experiences of the Hirata school kokugaku scholars residing in Hirosaki castle town. The chapter explores the significance of their efforts to identify their place of belonging from country to nation, and considers the legacy of their work and experiences. It discusses the legacy of the Hirata disciples in Hirosaki domain and Aomori prefecture and the lessons that can be learned from their experiences. The chapter also presents the document Namelist of Festival Participants (Shukusaiten yūshi meibo), which shows how Shinto priest Osari Nakaakira led annual festivals to venerate the Four Great Men of kokugaku some three decades after the Restoration, as well as the shōkonsai festival and the religious Separation of Shinto and Buddhism policy. Ultimately, it discusses Nakaakira's discussion on the effects of the kokugakusha's (Japan studies scholars) endeavours.

Place, People, Texts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Nowakowska
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Nation State

What is Poland? If the meaning of apparently stable words such as ecclesia has been anything but stable historically, the same is of course true of ‘Poland’, a simple noun which masks multiple possible meanings and polemical intents. For the sixteenth century, Poland should be defined not as an ethnic people (a nascent nation state), but rather as a political phenomenon. As such, this study will consider all the peoples and territories under the authority of the Polish Crown in the reign of King Sigismund I, regardless of their ‘ethnic’ or linguistic status. Twenty years ago, John Elliott coined the phrase ‘composite monarchies’, pointing out that most early modern monarchies were patchworks of territories acquired at various times by different means (marriage, conquest, inheritance), held together by one monarch....

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