Meiji Japan's Y23 crisis and the discovery of the future: Suehiro Tetcho's 'Nijusan-nen mirai-ki.'
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Futurological writing and temporal concepts in Meiji Japan are discussed, with a focus on novels dealing with the year Meiji 23 (1890), when the inauguration of the Imperial Diet was planned. Topics include the genre of 'mirai-ki' (records of the future), "Shotoku Taishi mirai-ki," (Prince Shotoku's Records of the Future), Dr. Dioscorides's 'Anno 2065,' Meiji mirai-ki, the 1887 peak and subsequent decline of the genre, Y23 mirai-ki, two early experiments by Ryusho Gaishi, Shuehiro Tetcho's 'Nijusan-nen mirai-ki' (The Year 23: A Record of the Future, 1885-86), and constraints on the future in Y23 novels.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 2000
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The family and the nation in Tokutomi Roka's 'Hototogisu.'(Meiji period novel, Japan)(Critical Essay)
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The Meiji-era Japanese novel 'Hototogisu' by Tokutomi Roka is discussed in relation to competing models of the family and the nation. Topics include 'ie' (form of family) and 'kazoku kokka' (family state), 'katei' as an alternative model of family, the Min'yusha on the 'katei,' family and gender in 'Hototogisu,' the 'ie' in relation to social hierarchy, conflict between the 'ie' and the 'katei,' and resistance in the text in relation to the nation and time.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 2000
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Koda Rohan's literary debut (1889) and the temporal topology of Meiji Japan
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The manner in which Koda Rohan transformed the genres popular in Meiji Japan in his debut novel "Tsuyu dandan" (1889) is discussed. Koda Rohan incorporated the genres of political novel and 'future chronicle' to introduce temporal complexity and true futurity into narrative, similar to the style in English Romanticism.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 2007
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