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• W4239804940 abstract "Reviewed by: Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of “National Learning” and the Formation of Scholarly Societies by Michael Wachutka Susan L. Burns (bio) Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of “National Learning” and the Formation of Scholarly Societies. By Michael Wachutka. Global Oriental, Leiden, 2013. 313 pages. €127.00. “What is ‘modern’ or Meiji-period kokugaku?” (p. xi). To explore this question, Michael Wachutka adopts what he describes as a “prosopographical” approach and explores in considerable detail the aims and activities of the large number of adherents of the late Tokugawa kokugaku “schools” who flooded into the new Meiji government following the Restoration. Although Wachutka argues that Meiji kokugaku has not been sufficiently examined, there is a significant body of work by Harry Harootunian and others (including myself) that he does not address. While his work would have benefited from a more explicit historiographical perspective, Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan provides an important new perspective on the influence of kokugaku on modern higher education in particular. Wachutka’s work focuses on roughly the first two decades of the Meiji period. He argues that the kokugakusha (the members of established kokugaku schools) who entered into government service, particularly the large number of followers of Hirata Atsutane, initially sought to re-establish the “unity of ritual and politics” (saisei-itchi) they believed had existed in the age of the legendary Emperor Jinmu. However, as the Meiji leadership began to define modern Shintō as an emperor-centered system of civic responsibilities rather than a religion, their influence waned. In contrast, kokugakusha who were less religiously inclined, those whose own work focused on textual and historical studies, went on to play important roles in educational institutions and scholarly societies, with the result that kokugaku not only shaped the modern academic disciplines such as national literature, national history, and folklore studies but also contributed to the popular understanding of Japanese national identity. The first four chapters of the work focus on the role of kokugakusha in the Meiji government and reflect Wachutka’s careful synthesis of the work of Japanese scholars such as Sakamoto Koremaru, Fujii Sadabumi, and Ueda Akira. Chapter 1 introduces the central question that orients this first [End Page 410] half of the book: were figures such as Hirata Kanetane (Atsutane’s adopted son and successor) who occupied a series of high administrative positions simply puppets of the new leadership, who used them to legitimate the new emperor-centered state, or did they shape the formation of policy? Wachutka argues for the latter position and concludes that “the socio-political significance of and function of kokugaku in the early Meiji era is clearly visible” (p. 26). Chapter 2 focuses on kokugakusha involvement in the revival of the Jingikan, the Bureau of Divinity that had been the highest office of government in the ancient imperial state and which for many kokugakusha represented the “unity of ritual and politics.” Wachutka makes the case that while the Meiji leadership eventually abolished the Jingikan, paving the way for the creation of a secularized Shintō, for the period of its existence the bureau was the institutional site where affiliations to a specific kokugaku school were eroded and different factions began to merge. Chapters 3 and 4 examine the influence of kokugaku in higher education. In chapter 3, Wachutka focuses on the period from 1869 to 1872 when kokugakusha attempted first in Kyoto and then in Tokyo to establish a publicly funded institution that would institutionalize the primacy of so-called “imperial studies.” However, the religious orientation of their version of “imperial studies” brought them into conflict with both Confucian scholars and advocates of “Western Learning.” So divisive was the ongoing conflict that in 1872 the government ordered the closing of the school. Chapter 4 continues the discussion of kokugaku and education by examining the involvement of kokugakusha in the establishment of the Training Course for the Classics (Koten Koshūkan) within the University of Tokyo in 1881. When the university was established four years earlier, the Department of Literature had initially been devoted solely to Europe and America, to the dismay of many kokugakusha. The training course reflected the rise of those..." @default.
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• W4239804940 title "Notes on Contributors" @default.
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