You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘Meiji’ tag.
I recently came across this online collection of old photographs of Japan maintained by the Nagasaki University Library and thought I would share it with our readers. The site is easily searchable and has some really nice content. Have a look, click here.
If you are at all interested in reading a brief account of the modernization of Japan’s military you may want to take a few minutes and read the article “From Swords to Guns”. Click Here.
For a more full account of the reforms initiated during the Meiji, including military, political, and educational reforms, click Here.
Follow this for a very informative article on Japanese Confucianism. The entire article is worth reading. Section 3.3 made me think about Gillian Russell’s article “Epistemic Viciousness in the Martial Arts”.Section 4 discusses the Meiji restoration and the (Confucian) scholar Yoshida Shoin as well as Inoue Tetsujiro’s contribution to the development of Bushido. Click Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy-Japanese Confucian Philosophy
For a more detailed discusion of the Mito School of Confucianism and the Meiji restoration click here.
FSRI Blog 
Recent Comments