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Imaginaries and historiographies of contested regions. Transforming centers and peripheries in Asian and Middle Eastern contexts
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SYSNO ASEP 0537657 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title Japan and the contested center of eighteenth-century East Asia Author(s) Toyosawa, Nobuko (OU-W) SAI, ORCID Source Title Imaginaries and historiographies of contested regions. Transforming centers and peripheries in Asian and Middle Eastern contexts. - Prague : Oriental Institute, 2020 / Slama M. ; Petrů T. - ISBN 978-80-85425-69-7 Pages s. 27-58 Number of pages 32 s. Number of pages 301 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords print culture ; Chikamatsu Monzaemon ; Kaibara Ekiken ; Fusō meishōzu ; The Battles of Coxinga ; the Great Peace Subject RIV AB - History OECD category History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings) Institutional support OU-W - RVO:68378009 UT WOS 000704153700002 EID SCOPUS 85101965633 DOI 10.47979/aror.s.2020.XII.27 Annotation Eighteenth-century Japan is known for the rise of the publishing industry and the spread of sociability through popular media. Reading against this broader historical context, this paper analyzes texts from different literary genres—namely, a guidebook series called The Illustrated Scenic Beauty of Japan (Fusō meishōzu, 1713–28) and The Battles of Coxinga (Kokusen’ya kassen, 1715), followed by its sequel, The Battles of Coxinga in Later Days (Kokusen’ya gonichi kassen). The paper explores what representative qualities and characteristics were considered Japanese in these texts, especially in contrast to the dominant other at that time, China. For example, drawing from a real historical figure, Zheng Chenggong (1624–1662), otherwise known as Coxinga, the playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653–1725) produced a tale about the revival of Ming dynastic rule in collaboration with Tokugawa Japan. Given that certain virtues and values held a particular importance in these texts, they can be read analogously with a rise in ambivalence toward the moral and political authority of the shogunate. The changing visions of ideal leadership suggest that the reading public was partaking in the debate about political legitimacy, albeit in the space of popular culture, adding a renewed significance of popular participation to the production of communal identity during the era known as the “Great Peace under heaven” (tenka taihei) Workplace Oriental Institute Contact Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950 Year of Publishing 2021
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