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Japan's Private Spheresthe 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.
Contents
Acknowledgments Figures and Tables Keywords ( ) Prologue PART 1 Contextualizing the Private Sphere in Japanese History 1 Introduction The Private "Problem" br/>1 Contexts of Privacy in Modernizing Japan2 Challenges and Methodologies2 Public and Private in Pre-Meiji Thought and Society 1 Introduction2 Public and Private in the Japanese Context3 Public and Private in the Medieval Period4 Public and Private in the Edo Period3 The Private Self and the Meiji-Taisho State 1 The Individual's Relationship to the State2 Prescribed Private Spheres: Religion, the Home, and Leisure3 Historiography on Modern Japan's Private SpheresPART 2 The Autonomous Self in the Edo Period (1600-1868) 4 Peripheries as Private Spheres 1 Everything in Its Place: City, Suburb, Countryside2 Koetsumura3 Itami3.1 Itami Sak e 3.2 The Itami Salon 4 Negishi4.1 Negishi as a Homegrown Living Space 4.2 Resignation and Reclusion 5 Boyhood as an Autonomous Sphere 1 Introduction2 Practical Childrearing3 Diaries4 Role Models and the Moral Authority of the Private6 "Publicizing" the PrivateSelf-Interrogation and Self-Indulgence in the Arts 1 Human Difference in Early Modern Thought2 The Self-Interrogation of Hakuin (1685-1768) and Kinkoku (1761-1832)3 Self and Self-Portraiture4 Master Depravity and the Self as SpectaclePART 3 Public and Private Selves in Meiji and Taisho (1868-1926) 7 The Deviant in Meiji Society Autonomy, Individuality, and Public Power 1 Meiji's New Normal2 Loser Literature3 Anguished Art4 Ideology and Rupture: Eccentricity and Its Place in Meiji's Cultural Field8 The Private Individual in Early Meiji Education (1872-1890s) 1 The Individual in Early Meiji Education2 On the Practice of Keeping Individuality Charts3 Early Student Charts in the United States4 Individuality as Control9 Education and Public Individuality (1890s-1927) 1 Kosei in Public Education2 Changes in Student Evaluations3 Kosei as "Public Individuality"PART 4 The Nationalization of Private Leisure (1868-1930s) 10 Vacationing and Moral Authority 1 School Summer Vacations2 Moral Authority and Vacationing for Adults3 Ambivalence and Contestation11 Nationalizing the BodyPhysical Exercise as a Public Ethic 1 "Civilizing" the Physical Body2 Western Athletics3 Public Fitness as Statecraft (1920s‾)12 ConclusionCan Modern Japan's Private Spheres Be Moral? 1 Reconciliations of Self and StateEpilogue Bibliography Index
