Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1.
  • Strategies for modernizing:
  • On the nature of Western progress: the journal of the Iwakura embassy /
  • Eugene Soviak
  • Westernization and Japanization: the early Meiji transformation of education /
  • Michio Nagai
  • The Japanization of the middle Meiji /
  • Donald H. Shively
  • The Sin-Japanese War of 1894-95 and its cultural effects on Japan /
  • Donald Keene
  • pt. 2.
  • The arts in the Meiji period:
  • Western style painting in the early Meiji period and its critics /
  • John M. Rosenfield
  • The formation of realism in Meiji painting: the artistic career of Takahashi Yuichi /
  • T?oru Haga
  • The modern music of Meiji Japan /
  • William P. Malm
  • pt. 3.
  • The search for identity in literature:
  • Natsume S?oseki and the psychological novel /
  • Howard S. Hibbett
  • T?oson and the autobiographical novel /
  • Edwin McClellan
  • Masaoka Shiki and Tanka reform /
  • Robert H. Brower
  • Kobayashi Hideo /
  • Edward Seidensticker
  • Fukuda Tsuneari: modernization and Shingeki /
  • Benito Ortolani
  • pt. 4.
  • Philosophy, religion, and language:
  • Nishida Kitar?o: the early years /
  • Valdo Humbert Viglielmo
  • Millenarian aspects of the new religions in Japan /
  • Carmen Blacker
  • Levels of speech (keigo) and the Japanese linguistic response to modernization /
  • Roy Andrew Miller.