Meiji Culture by Daikichi Irokawa, Dreams of Meiji Youth, The Miracle of Meiji, The Nation of "Meiji" "The Miracle of Meiji: Visiting an Era of Glory" Kiku Saraki Price: ¥1300 Cover sleeve with tape attached, one corner fold mark in the text Meiji is not merely a historical period. It can be called a "miraculous" era that built a modern, centralized nation from a samurai society. From the Imperial Restoration to the Boshin War, the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars, as well as the Tomioka Silk Mill, railway construction, and the Imperial Rescript on Education... The author portrays the spirit of the Meiji people, not only famous figures like Hirobumi Ito and Yoshiko Akiyama, but also samurai who lost their jobs due to the abolition of the feudal domains and female teachers who risked their lives to report on the situation in Inner Mongolia. And about Meiji, the author concludes, "For the people of Meiji (omitted) it was unthinkable without the personality and authority of Emperor Meiji." "The Nation of 'Meiji'" Popular Edition Ryotaro Shiba "Meiji" possessed a pure and transparent sense of "public" and moral tension. It speaks of the universal legacy of the Meiji nation. It is a lifetime work of a master on Japanese civilization and a vivid discussion of the Japanese people. - This book is where Ryotaro Shiba, who has consistently written the most vivid history of the Japanese people, pours all of his accumulated knowledge into objectively describing the "nation of Meiji," which has disappeared into the distance like a mirage, as if looking at an object on a desk. Dreams of Meiji Youth: Diaries of Revolutionary Actors, Asahi Selection Shin Shimoka This book, published as one of the "Asahi Selections," focuses on the youthful figures and revolutionary actions of eight people from Tosa (Kochi Prefecture), including Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi, thinkers Eishin Ueki, Shusui Kotoku, and journalist Reizan Taoka, through their diaries during the dawn of modern Japan. Meiji Culture, Japanese Historical Series, Iwanami Shoten Daikichi Irokawa Box has sun-fading and stains, date written on the back endpaper, no writing in the text. What does Meiji culture ask of the present? What kind of era was Meiji? Focusing on the ideas of the common people at the base, and using original historical materials excavated by himself, the author depicts the overall picture of Meiji culture, which is subject to conflicting evaluations, within the dynamism of history. A representative work by the author who revolutionized the image of modern Japan with the method of the history of popular thought.