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Makiko's New World: Suggested Readings

Makiko wrote her diary as Japan was undergoing massive political, economic, social, and cultural change. To better appreciate Makiko's world there are a number of histories and translations available that explore this exciting time in Japanese history:

Duus, Peter. Modern Japan. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
Offers a comprehensive survey of politics, society and economy from the late Tokugawa era (1603-1868) through the post-war period.

Gluck, Carol. Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Examines the ideological landscape of late-Meiji politics.

Irokawa Daikichi. The Culture of the Meiji Period. Marius Jansen, ed. and trans. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Offers a number of insightful essays about changes during the Meiji period and how they were perceived by average Japanese.

Jansen, Marius B., ed. The Emergence of Meiji Japan: Cambridge History of Japan. Selections. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Chronicles the transition from Tokugawa rule, and the political process that finally ended centuries of warrior rule, as well as the events which indirectly resulted in the Meiji Constitution of 1889.

Kornicki, Peter F., ed. Meiji Japan: Political, Economic and Social History, 1868-1912. London, New York: Routledge, 1998.
Offers selections by a number of scholars on women's history over a broad range of Japanese history. Includes essays on women in the Meiji period.

Tamanoi, Mariko. Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998.

Tanaka, Yukiko, ed. To Live and to Write: Selections by Japanese Women Writers, 1913-1938. Seattle: Seal Press, 1987.
Translations of original works by Japanese women just after the Meiji period.

Tipton, Elise K. and John Clark , eds. Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.
Provides examples of current scholarship on the Japanese negotiation of cultural and social modernity during the Meiji period.

Tonomura, Hitomi, Anne Walthall, and Haruko Wakita, eds. Women and Class in Japanese History. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1999.
The result of a collaborative effort between Japanese and Western scholars, Women and Class explores the historical and contemporary constructions of gender in Japan.

Tsurumi, Patricia. Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Explores the lives of women recruited into the newly formed industrial workforce.

Uno, Kathleen. Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
Discusses the role of womanhood in the political constructions of Meiji ideology.


	Makiko's New World: Suggested Readings Makiko wrote her diary as Japan was undergoing massive political, economic, social, and cultural change. To better appreciate Makiko's world there are a number of histories and translations available that explore this exciting time in Japanese history: Duus, Peter. Modern Japan. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. Offers a comprehensive survey of politics, society and economy from the late Tokugawa era (1603-1868) through the post-war period. Gluck, Carol. Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. Examines the ideological landscape of late-Meiji politics. Irokawa Daikichi. The Culture of the Meiji Period. Marius Jansen, ed. and trans. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. Offers a number of insightful essays about changes during the Meiji period and how they were perceived by average Japanese. Jansen, Marius B., ed. The Emergence of Meiji Japan: Cambridge History of Japan. Selections. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Chronicles the transition from Tokugawa rule, and the political process that finally ended centuries of warrior rule, as well as the events which indirectly resulted in the Meiji Constitution of 1889. Kornicki, Peter F., ed. Meiji Japan: Political, Economic and Social History, 1868-1912. London, New York: Routledge, 1998. Offers selections by a number of scholars on women's history over a broad range of Japanese history. Includes essays on women in the Meiji period. Tamanoi, Mariko. Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. Tanaka, Yukiko, ed. To Live and to Write: Selections by Japanese Women Writers, 1913-1938. Seattle: Seal Press, 1987. Translations of original works by Japanese women just after the Meiji period. Tipton, Elise K. and John Clark , eds. Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. Provides examples of current scholarship on the Japanese negotiation of cultural and social modernity during the Meiji period. Tonomura, Hitomi, Anne Walthall, and Haruko Wakita, eds. Women and Class in Japanese History. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1999. The result of a collaborative effort between Japanese and Western scholars, Women and Class explores the historical and contemporary constructions of gender in Japan. Tsurumi, Patricia. Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Explores the lives of women recruited into the newly formed industrial workforce. Uno, Kathleen. Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. Discusses the role of womanhood in the political constructions of Meiji ideology.		In This Section: Learning from Makiko > Chronology: Meiji Period > Essays > Reviews > Suggested Readings > About the Book