Japans Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 (Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives)

__Japan\x27s Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600\-1930 explores the genesis and historical development of autonomy and its evolving relationship with public authority in early modern and modern Japan.__ "Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the historical development of the private and its evolving relationship with public authority, a dynamic that evokes stereotypes about an alleged dearth of individual agency in Japanese society. It does so through a montage of case studies. For the early modern era, case studies examine peripheral living spaces, boyhood, and self-interrogation in the arts. For the modern period, they explore strategic deviance, individuality in Meiji education, modern leisure, and body-maintenance. Analysis of these disparate private realms illuminates evolving conceptualizations of the private and its reciprocal yet often-contested relationship to the state"-- Provided by publisher Cover Contents Acknowledgments Figures and Tables Keywords Prologue part 1 Contextualizing the Private Sphere in Japanese History 1 Introduction 2 Public and Private in Pre- Meiji Thought and Society 3 The Private Self and the Meiji- Taisho State part 2 The Autonomous Self in the Edo Period (1600– 1868) 4 Peripheries as Private Spheres 5 Boyhood as an Autonomous Sphere 6 “Publicizing” the Private Self- Interrogation and Self- Indulgence in the Arts part 3 Public and Private Selves in Meiji and Taisho (1868– 1926) 7 The Deviant in Meiji Society 8 The Private Individual in Early Meiji Education (1872– 1890s) 9 Education and Public Individuality (1890s– 1927) part 4 The Nationalization of Private Leisure (1868– 1930s) 10 Vacationing and Moral Authority 11 Nationalizing the Body 12 Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Index