Podcast appearances and mentions of marcia yonemoto

The reality behind the stereotypical image of Japan's fearsome elite warriors is more nuanced than we are led to believe. It is thought the samurai developed as a social class in medieval Japan, when the term could encompass lowly foot soldiers or mercenaries, and often untrustworthy ones at that. A far cry from the skilled fighters who supposedly pledged undying loyalty to their lord, and followed a code of honour. In fact, it was during peacetime that the image of the samurai came to be defined when their role as warriors was no longer necessary. During Japan's aggressive imperial expansion in the early 20th Century, the samurai ideal was once again manipulated for nationalistic purposes. Rajan Datar's guests include Michael Wert, who has published several books on Japan's warrior class, including Samurai: A Concise History. He is associate professor of East Asian History at Marquette University in Milwaukee; Marcia Yonemoto, professor and hair of the Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan, which examines the role of women in Japan's military-bureaucratic state; and Polina Serebriakova, whose doctoral thesis at the University of Cambridge in the UK focuses on warrior leaders in medieval Japan. Producer: Fiona Clampin (Image: Illustration portrait of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Credit: Photo 12/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

This week we travel back to 16th century Japan with Throne of Blood! Join us for a discussion of Japanese armor, elite marriages, creepy forest spirits, and more! Sources: Armor and Helmets: Helmet, pennant; OA+.13545.a. ; 17th c. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_OA-13545-a "Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868" The Met (2009). https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2009/art-of-the-samurai w/photo gallery here: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2009/art-of-the-samurai/photo-gallery Davison Packard Koenig, "Japanese Samurai Helmet and Half Mask," Arizona State Museum, https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/online-exhibit/curators-choice/samurai-helmet-half-mask Ian Bottomley, "The Art of Defense, a History of Samurai Helmets," Sotheby's https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-art-of-defense-a-history-of-samurai-helmets ; example: 16th century helmet and mask https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/fine-japanese-art-l19229/lot.55.html?locale=en Myra Shackley, "Arms and the Men; 14th Century Japanese swordsmanship illustrated by skeletons from Zaimokuza, near Kamakura, Japan," World Archaeology 18:2 Weaponry and Warfare (October 1986): 247-54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/124618 Morten Oxenboell, Akuto and Rural Conflict in Medieval Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvsrgc7 Nancy K. Stalker, "Disintegration and Reunification 1460s-Early 1600s," Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool (University of California Press, 2018), 112-43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv2n7fgm Women and Marriage: Wakita Haruko, "Marriage and Property in Premodern Japan from the Perspective of Women's History," Journal of Japanese Studies 10, 1 (1984) David Spafford, "The Language and Contours of Familial Obligation in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Japan," in What is Family? Answers From Early Modern Japan, ed Mary Elizabeth Berry and Marcia Yonemoto. University of California Press. Hitomi Tonemura, "Women and Inheritance in Japan's Early Warrior Society," Comparative Studies in Society and History 32, 3 (1990) Film Background: Stephen Prince, "Throne of Blood: Shakespeare Transposed," The Criterion Collection Film Guides (6 January 2014). https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/270-throne-of-blood-shakespeare-transposed Gavin J. Blair, "1957: When Akira Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood' Was Ahead of Its Time," The Hollywood Reporter (16 March 2016). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/1957-akira-kurosawas-throne-blood-876215 "Shooting the Arrows in Throne of Blood," CriterionCollection (14 January 2014). https://youtu.be/W5MtUiYxBiY and for more info on that snippet, see https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3017-shooting-the-arrows-in-throne-of-blood "Throne of Blood" Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_of_Blood

In this lecture, Dr. Marcia Yonemoto (University of Colorado-Boulder) details practices of male heir adoption during the Tokugawa period, and charts changes and continuities in adoption in the early Meiji Period.

In this episode, Dr. Marcia Yonemoto (Colorado) stresses the continuities between the early modern and Meiji Periods, resituating the Meiji Restoration and the Meiji Charter Oath in particular as products of early modern concerns and conditions.  With this in mind, we evaluate the historical usefulness of categories like "modern" and "early modern" in the Japanese context, date the beginning of Japanese "early modernity," and discuss insights from Meiji-era diarists.

Were women a problem in early modern Japan? If they were, what was the nature of the problem they posed? For whom, and why? Marcia Yonemoto‘s new book explores these questions in a compelling study that brings together the public discourse on women in the Tokugawa period (including prescriptive literature,... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Were women a problem in early modern Japan? If they were, what was the nature of the problem they posed? For whom, and why? Marcia Yonemoto‘s new book explores these questions in a compelling study that brings together the public discourse on women in the Tokugawa period (including prescriptive literature,... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Were women a problem in early modern Japan? If they were, what was the nature of the problem they posed? For whom, and why? Marcia Yonemoto‘s new book explores these questions in a compelling study that brings together the public discourse on women in the Tokugawa period (including prescriptive literature, instruction manuals for women, representations of women in fiction and drama, woodblock prints, and book illustrations) and the corpus of extant prose writing by early modern women and their families (including Diaries, memoirs, letters from the late 17th through mid-19th centuries). The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2016) argues that Tokugawa women’s actions were significant and powerful. When we read (or reread) the works of Tokugawa-period writers and critics, Yonemoto argues, we see a picture of women’s lives in which women were far from passive, especially in the context of a stem family structure within which women acted as in-laws, adoptees, laborers, household managers, and de facto heirs, among other roles. This is a fascinating study informing the fields of women’s history, gender studies, early modern studies, and Japanese history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Were women a problem in early modern Japan? If they were, what was the nature of the problem they posed? For whom, and why? Marcia Yonemoto‘s new book explores these questions in a compelling study that brings together the public discourse on women in the Tokugawa period (including prescriptive literature, instruction manuals for women, representations of women in fiction and drama, woodblock prints, and book illustrations) and the corpus of extant prose writing by early modern women and their families (including Diaries, memoirs, letters from the late 17th through mid-19th centuries). The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2016) argues that Tokugawa women’s actions were significant and powerful. When we read (or reread) the works of Tokugawa-period writers and critics, Yonemoto argues, we see a picture of women’s lives in which women were far from passive, especially in the context of a stem family structure within which women acted as in-laws, adoptees, laborers, household managers, and de facto heirs, among other roles. This is a fascinating study informing the fields of women’s history, gender studies, early modern studies, and Japanese history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Were women a problem in early modern Japan? If they were, what was the nature of the problem they posed? For whom, and why? Marcia Yonemoto‘s new book explores these questions in a compelling study that brings together the public discourse on women in the Tokugawa period (including prescriptive literature,... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Were women a problem in early modern Japan? If they were, what was the nature of the problem they posed? For whom, and why? Marcia Yonemoto‘s new book explores these questions in a compelling study that brings together the public discourse on women in the Tokugawa period (including prescriptive literature, instruction manuals for women, representations of women in fiction and drama, woodblock prints, and book illustrations) and the corpus of extant prose writing by early modern women and their families (including Diaries, memoirs, letters from the late 17th through mid-19th centuries). The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2016) argues that Tokugawa women’s actions were significant and powerful. When we read (or reread) the works of Tokugawa-period writers and critics, Yonemoto argues, we see a picture of women’s lives in which women were far from passive, especially in the context of a stem family structure within which women acted as in-laws, adoptees, laborers, household managers, and de facto heirs, among other roles. This is a fascinating study informing the fields of women’s history, gender studies, early modern studies, and Japanese history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Were women a problem in early modern Japan? If they were, what was the nature of the problem they posed? For whom, and why? Marcia Yonemoto‘s new book explores these questions in a compelling study that brings together the public discourse on women in the Tokugawa period (including prescriptive literature,... Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/japanese-studies