Description
Book SynopsisThis book is about the losers of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Using sources ranging from essays by former Tokugawa supporters like Fukuzawa Yukichi to postwar film and “lost decade”
manga, Michael Wert shows how shifting portrayals of Restoration losers have influenced the formation of national history.
Trade ReviewMichael Wert offers a highly readable study of the complex policies of regional memory in modern Japan. * Journal of Asian Studies *
Meiji Restoration Losers is essential reading for historians of the Makumatsu or Restoration eras, and highly recommended for any scholars with an interest in modern Japanese historiography. * Pacific Affairs *
A fresh historical approach from a new generation. * Mainichi Shimbun *
A book, brimming with ambition, that takes a big first step toward understanding ‘Japan’ from a different angle. * Yomiyori Shimbun *
