In this article, I will briefly discuss the reinvention of the samurai and of the merchants,
which began in the Tokugawa and then extended into the Meiji period; my assumption
is that both samurai and merchants played a crucial part in he advent of modernity
in Japan, and that the thoroughness of the process through which they were
reinvented is accounted for by developments from pre-modern (“post-historical”) Japan.
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神田外語大学日本研究所紀要
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The Bulletin of the Research Institute for Japanese Studies
Modernity as Continuity: The Samurai and the Merchants in “Post-historical” Tokugawa Japan
Nihon08-02(Pasca)
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