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The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko : One Woman's Transit from Tokugawa to Meiji Japan /

Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko is the story of a selfdescribed obase-born nobodyo who tried to change the course of Japanese history. Kurosawa Tokiko (1806u1890), a commoner from rural Mito domain, was a poet, teacher, oracle, and politicalactivist. In 1859 she embraced the xenophobic loyalist...

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Autor principal: Nenzi, Laura (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a The flight of a sparrow -- A nest and a nexus -- Circles and circumstances -- Glimpses of history (the script) -- From script to action -- Caged bird -- The chaos and cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko -- Transitions -- Rescuing the past from the present -- The many reincarnations of Kurosawa Tokiko -- Circles redrawn: the view from Mito -- Postscript: new scripts -- Conclusion. 
520 |a Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko is the story of a selfdescribed obase-born nobodyo who tried to change the course of Japanese history. Kurosawa Tokiko (1806u1890), a commoner from rural Mito domain, was a poet, teacher, oracle, and politicalactivist. In 1859 she embraced the xenophobic loyalist faction (known for the motto orevere the emperor, expel the barbarianso) and traveled to Kyoto to denounce the shogunAEs policies before the emperor. She was arrested for slander, taken to EdoAEs infamousTenmach? prison, and sentenced to banishment. In her later years, having crossed the Tokugawa-Meiji divide, Tokiko became an elementary school teacher and experienced firsthand the modernizing policies of the new government. After her death she washonored with court rank for her devotion to the loyalist cause. TokikoAEs story reflects not only some of the key moments in JapanAEs transition to the modern era, but also some of its lesser-known aspects, thereby providing us with a broader narrative of the late-Tokugawa crisis, the collapse of the shogunate, and the rise of the Meiji state. The peculiar combination of no-nonsense single- mindedness and visionary flights of imagination evinced in her numerous diaries and poetry collections nuances our understanding of activism and political consciousness among rural non-elites by blurring the lines between the rational and the irrational, focus and folly. TokikoAEs use of prognostication and her appeals to cosmic forces point to the creative paths women have constructed to take part in political debates as well as the resourcefulness required to preserve oneAEs identity in the face of changing times. In the early twentieth century, Tokiko was reimagined in the popular press and her story rewritten to offset fears about female autonomy and boost local and national agendas. These distorted and romanticized renditions offer compelling examples of the politicization of the past and of the extent to which present anxieties shape historical memory. That Tokiko was unimportant and her loyalist mission a failure is irrelevant. What is significant is that through her life story we are able to discern the ordinary individual in the midst of history. By putting an extra in the spotlight, The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko offers a new script for the drama that unfolded on the stage of late-Tokugawa and early Meiji history. --Provided by publisher. 
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