Taishō period

the social structure, as seen in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman, where she argues for woman’s education, not to free women of the suppressive culture, but to make them better in their subjectivity. In these two pieces, readers can understand that autonomy is restricted. The same can be said for the Meiji Era in Japan. In light of Japan’s industrialization and the changes it brought, individual agency in Meiji Japan, as represented in Natsume Soseki’s Sanshiro, is both socially and culturally constrain. The Meiji period brought Japan out of the feudal state; it is a time of rapid modernization and industrialization. This new world is fast pace. Sanshiro, the protagonist of the novel, notes that “the world was in an uproar; he watched it, but he could not join it,” because he is in the liminal space between the past, his home in the country, and the present, the fast-pace industrialize city of this period. He is in a place where he does not understand the cultural and social values of the space, making it hard for him to make decisions. His individual agency is constrained because of his ignorance. In order for Sanshiro to make decisions, he needs to understand this new world he finds himself in. Given that he is a male, he is allow to seek formal education to help him. Education is the center of Wollstonecraft’s piece. Women are taught rely on their beauty and manners, making them nothing more than “alluring mistresses” to men, who…

Since obesity is on the continual rise, there has been a lot of research done to determine the best way to decrease weight. For many years, studies of body weight regulation have focused almost completely on caloric intake and energy expenditure.23 Since the obesity epidemic continues to skyrocket, one diet that has received a lot of attention is Intermittent fasting (IF), or periods of voluntary abstinence from food and drink.24 In some places, IF has been practiced since the earliest of…

Over the following centuries the power of the emperor and the imperial court gradually declined and passed to the military clans and their armies of samurai warriors. The Minamoto clan under Minamoto no Yoritomo emerged victorious from the Genpei War of 1180–85. After seizing power, Yoritomo set up his capital in Kamakura and took the title of shogun. In 1274 and 1281, the Kamakura shogunate withstood two Mongol invasions, but in 1333 it was toppled by a rival claimant to the shogunate, ushering…

In the period from the Tokugawa era to the post-WWII era, Japanese society saw a dramatic shift in the prevalence of Japanese militarism and the existence of the traditional Japanese war mentality. Deeply rooted in samurai culture, Japanese militarism served as a foundation for Japanese society throughout the Tokugawa era; the class system gave way to a ‘warrior-elite’ class that dominated the social hierarchy. This pervasive warrior-dominated culture persisted into the Meiji period. Japanese…

his later years was a writer and critic this leading to him help create The Night Society which was to explore literature along with avant-garde art styles. Hisashi really like Okamoto’s vision of two versions of Japanese art he said that there are 2 forms, Yayoi-like in which it’s a delicate and graceful pieces of art, while Jomon-like is excessive but yet innovated pieces of work. With Tenmyouya wanting to break free from the current conventional Japanese art style he enjoyed the thought and…

Imagining a country that is totally closed off from all exterior surroundings is very difficult do, as there are very few countries that even have the resources for such an endeavor. This is the perceived vision of what Japan was like during the Tokugawa period, where the Shoguns employed an idea of Sakoku in Japan. But what does Sakoku mean? There is a literal translation of closing down the country, but the foreign relations policy did not follow this word for word translation . Along with…

INFO498 Final Case Studies Name:_Chris Harlan____ Instructions: Your essays will be graded on content to include grammar and spelling. Each case should take 1-2 pages including diagrams. The essay answers for both #2 and #3 should be 500 to 700 words each, in order to completely answer the questions. Please submit as one document. Assignment: #1. Forest Point Construction (System Planning) a. What is the correct total time? The correct total time for this project is 31 days. b.…

Rossini’s music had a formulaic quality with many of his operas being similar in structure. He utilised a general framework called “la solita forma” in which operas followed a standardized pattern based in building drama and increasing complexity (Beghelli, 2011, p.97). This formula enabled Rossini and other composers to maintain a high volume of output over a short period of time without sacrificing quality or audience reception. A result of method was work that often lacked thematic recurrence…

economy was mainly aided through agriculture. Before the restoration, Japan was controlled by hundreds of semi-independent feudal lords. The Meiji period…

speaking, reading, and writing are gender marked” (252). She concludes that insufficient evidence exists in the dialogue between the genders, that language is not codified by sex and therefore cannot be regarded excepting “styles, strategies, and contexts of linguistic performance (255).” The question is further exacerbated by Mary Jacobus’ insistence that as men’s discourse has historically subjugated the female, women’s voices have been effectively silenced (28). I would argue that the…