Research Catalog

Title

• 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.
• Mutsu Munemitsu and his time / Okazaki Hisahiko ; translated by Noda Makito.

Author

• 岡崎久彦, 1930-2014
• Okazaki, Hisahiko, 1930-2014

Publication

• Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), 2018.
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• 野田牧人
• Noda, Makito

Description

350 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm

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" --

Series Statement

Japan library

Uniform Title

• 陸奥宗光とその時代. English
• Mutsu Munemitsu to sono jidai. English
• Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

Alternative Title

• 陸奥宗光とその時代.
• Mutsu Munemitsu to sono jidai.
• Life and times of Munemitsu Mutsu

Subjects

• Japan
• Diplomats
• Diplomat
• 1868-1912
• Biographies
• Japan > Foreign relations > 1868-1912
• Mutsu, Munemitsu, 1844-1897
• Biography
• Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai
• Diplomatic relations
• Diplomats > Japan > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Biography.

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337).

Source (note)

• Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) ;

Language (note)

• Text in English.

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.

Call Number

JFD 18-3046

ISBN

• 9784866580258
• 4866580259

LCCN

2018374082

OCLC

1030443708

Author

Okazaki, Hisahiko, 1930-2014, author.

Alternate Script for Author

岡崎久彦, 1930-2014, author.

Alternate Script for Uniform Title

陸奥宗光とその時代. English

Title

Mutsu Munemitsu and his time / Okazaki Hisahiko ; translated by Noda Makito.

Alternate Script for Title

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.

Publisher

Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First English edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Japan library

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337).

Language

Text in English.

Source

Gift; Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) ; 2018.

Alternate Script for Subject

陸奥宗光, 1844-1897.

Alternate Script for Subject

陸奥宗光, 1844-1897.

Chronological Term

1868-1912

Added Author

Noda, Makito, translator.

Alternate Script for Added Author

野田牧人, translator.

Added Author

Okazaki, Hisahiko, 1930-2014. Mutsu Munemitsu to sono jidai. English.

Alternate Script for Added Author

岡崎久彦, 1930-2014. 陸奥宗光とその時代. English.

Translation Of:

Okazaki, Hisahiko, 1930-2014. Mutsu Munemitsu to sono jidai. Dai 1-han. Tōkyō : PHP Kenkyūjo, 2003. PHP bunko 4569579205 (OCoLC)54044725

Research Call Number

JFD 18-3046