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Mutsu Munemitsu and his time
Author
岡崎久彦, 1930-2014, author.
Uniform Title
Mutsu Munemitsu to sono jidai. English
陸奥宗光とその時代. English
Title
Mutsu Munemitsu and his time / Okazaki Hisahiko ; translated by Noda Makito.
Mutsu Munemitsu and his time / Okazaki Hisahiko ; translated by Noda Makito = 陸奥宗光とその時代 / 著者岡崎久彦 ; 訳者野田牧人.
ISBN
9784866580258
4866580259
Edition
First English edition.
Publication
Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
350 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Notes
"The original English translation is based on the paperback version of 'Mutsu Munemitsu to sono jidai,' published by PHP Institute, Inc. in 2003; first published in hardcover by the same publisher in 1999"--title page verso.
Text in English.
Summary
"Toward the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Mutsu Munemitsu was ousted from his home Kishū-han as a result of his father's defeat in a power struggle. To avenge this, Mutsu bolstered his talent to become a man of "genius and learning in equal measure." He joined the Kobe Naval Training Center founded by Katsu Kaishū and, later, Kaientai, a trading and shipping company and private navy founded and managed by Sakamoto Ryōma before the Meiji Restoration was accomplished. During the Meiji era, Mutsu fully exercised his extraordinary ability, including working to revise unequal treaties with Western powers as foreign minister. In his last days, he scrambled to end the First Sino-Japanese War; his efforts resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki with favorable terms for Japan. Mutsu also helped Japan ride out the subsequent wave of the Tripartite Intervention from Russia, France, and Germany. This book's author, a career diplomat himself, traces the footsteps of modern Japan's diplomacy by reviewing the philosophical and political journey of this extraordinary diplomat who protected the dignity of Japan as a modern nation throughout his professional life" -- United summary from book.
Variant and related titles
Also known as: Life and times of Munemitsu Mutsu
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 29, 2018
Series
Japan library
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337).
Contents
Father and son : at the apex of eighteenth-century culture
Date Munehiro in exile (Jitoku-ō) : intellectual pilgrimage of an Edo dignitary
Meiji restoration : into the age of revolution and gun smoke
Giant wings broken : the rise and fall of a Prussian-style military state
A bush warbler in winter : involved in Tosa's adventure
Burning the midnight oil again : study during imprisonment
Burning the midnight oil a third time : in a Prussian-style constitution appropriate?
The origins of Japanese democracy : building a modern nation-state
The dawn of constitutional government : a Samurai democracy to be proud of
First setback for the parliamentary democracy : bloody intervention in the election
Revision of treaties : freedom from half a century of humiliation
Rivalry on the Korean Peninsula : one imperialism vs. another
The Donghak peasant rebellion : is Korea a tributary to Qing China?
The eve of the first Sino-Japanese War : tenacity
A war of diplomacy : keeping the Western powers at bay
The Battle of Pungdo : dawn of an empire
Japan sails to victory : China's strategic dilemma
The final phase of the ware : a race against time
The treaty of Shimonoseki : Li Hongzhang in Japan
The Tripartite Intervention : an unavoidable concession
Mutsu's death : fighting for democracy to the last.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Also listed under
野田牧人, translator.
岡崎久彦, 1930-2014. 陸奥宗光とその時代. English.
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