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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Lords Of The Samurai - A Refreshing Perspective, Ann Taylor
Lords Of The Samurai - A Refreshing Perspective, Ann Taylor
Ann Connolly
A review of the Asian Art Museum's Lords of the Samurai exhibition, which ran from June 12, 2009 through September 20, 2009.
The Japanese Revolutionaries: The Architects Of The Meiji Restoration, 1860-1868, Dana Kenneth Teasley
The Japanese Revolutionaries: The Architects Of The Meiji Restoration, 1860-1868, Dana Kenneth Teasley
Student Papers (History)
Scholars have offered many conflicting interpretations of the Japanese Meiji Restoration of 1868, but few have put forth a comprehensive analysis as to the nature of the protagonists and the motivation of those who initiated this revolutionary movement. Although historical interpretations of the Restoration and its heroes have ranged from a romantic and generalized theory of economic struggle to focused studies of individuals whose motivations were singular, the true character of the samurai revolutionaries behind the Restoration is the issue here. Of those samurai who, acquired knowledge of Western civilization and technology, took part in the Restoration, and witnessed the …