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Reimeikai
was a Japanese "educational society" formed in Japan's Taishō period. The members declared themselves committed "to strive for the stabilization and enrichment of the life of the Japanese people in conformity with the new trends of the postwar world." In December 1918, the group was formed in order to sponsor public lectures. Its founders included Yoshino Sakuzō and Fukuda Tokuzō. Reimeikai's membership supported universal suffrage and freedom of assembly. Also, they advocated less restrictions on the right to strike. The group came together "to propagate ideas of democracy among the people." The group dissolved in 1920.Smith, It is not to be confused with the Owari Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation, often just called the "Reimeikai Foundation". See also * Nitobe Inazo * Yosano Akiko Notes References * Marshall, Byron K. (1992). ''Academic Freedom and the Japanese Imperial University, 1868-1939.'' Berkeley: University of California Press. OCLC 25130703* Nussbaum, Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owari Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation
The is a private art museum, located on the former '' Ōzone Shimoyashiki'' compound in Nagoya, central Japan. Its collection contains more than 12,000 items, including swords, armor, Noh costumes and masks, lacquer furniture, Chinese and Japanese ceramics, calligraphy, and paintings from the Chinese Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368). History Unlike many private museums in Japan, which are based on collections assembled in the modern era by corporations or entrepreneurs, the Tokugawa Art Museum houses the hereditary collection of the Owari branch of the Tokugawa clan The is a Japanese dynasty which produced the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868 during the Edo period. It was formerly a powerful ''daimyō'' family. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a branch of ..., which ruled the Owari Domain in what is now Aichi Prefecture. The museum is operated by the Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation, which was founded in 1931 by Yoshic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshino Sakuzō
Yoshino may refer to: * Yoshino cherry, another name for ''Prunus × yedoensis'', a flowering cherry tree * Japanese cruiser ''Yoshino'', a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy Places * Yoshino, Nara, a town located in Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, Japan * Yoshino, Nan'yō, Yamagata, a small town in the north of Nanyo, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan * Yoshino, Tokushima, a former town located in Itano District, Tokushima, Japan * Yoshino District, Nara, a district located in Nara Prefecture, Japan * Yoshino-Kumano National Park, a Japanese national park comprising areas of Mie, Nara, and Wakayama Prefectures * Yoshino Mikumari Shrine, a Shinto shrine located on Mount Yoshino * Yoshino Mountain, a mountain located in the town of Yoshino in Nara Prefecture * Yoshino Province, an old province of Japan * Yoshino River, a river on the island of Shikoku, Japan * Yoshino Shrine, a Shinto shrine in Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, Japan People Surname *, Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fukuda Tokuzō
Fukuda (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese long jumper *, Japanese historian of political thought *, Japanese singer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese feminist activist *Fukuda Gyōkai (福田行誡, 1809 – 1888), Japanese Buddhist monk *, Japanese film director *, birth name of , member of J-pop group S/mileage *, Japanese speed skater *, photographer *Keiji Fukuda (born c. 1955), American physician with expertise in influenza epidemiology *, Japanese-American judo 10th dan *Koichi Fukuda, Japanese-American guitarist/keyboardist in Static-X *, Japanese mathematician *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese tennis player *, Japanese Actress *, Japanese animation director *Robert Fukuda (1922–2013), American politician and lawyer *, Japanese critic and philosopher *, Japanese sculptor and graphic designer *, Japanese classical guitarist *, Japanese basketball player and coach *, Japanese baseball play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nitobe Inazo
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Nitobe is the surname of a Japanese Samurai family and refers to: * Nitobe Inazō ** '' Nitobe Bunka College'', named after Inazō ** ''Nitobe Memorial Garden'', named after Inazō * Nitobe Jūjirō * Nitobe Koretami * Nitobe Tsutō See also: * Nitobeia Nitobeia is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae. The family Tephritidae does not include the biolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yosano Akiko
, known by her pen name Yosano Akiko (Shinjitai: , Kyūjitai: , ), was a Japanese author, poet, feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji era as well as the Taishō era, Taishō and early Shōwa eras of Japan. She is one of the most noted, and most controversial, post-classical female poets of Japan. Early life Yosano was born as Hō Shō (鳳 志やう) into a prosperous merchant family in Sakai, near Osaka. From the age of 11, she was the family member most responsible for running the family business, which produced and sold yōkan, a type of confection. From early childhood, she was fond of reading literary works, and read widely in her father's extensive library. As a high school student, she began to subscribe to the poetry magazine ''Myōjō'' (Bright Star), of which she became a prominent contributor. ''Myōjō's'' editor, Tekkan Yosano, whom she later married, taught her ''tanka'' poetry, having met her on visits to Osaka and Sakai to deliver lect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. Its director since 2017 is George Andreou. The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018. Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty. The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009. Related publishers, imprints, and series HUP owns the Belknap Press imprint (trade name), imprint, which it inaugurated in May 1954 with the publication of the ''Harvard Guide to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taishō Era
The was a period in the history of Japan dating from 30 July 1912 to 25 December 1926, coinciding with the reign of Emperor Taishō. The new emperor was a sickly man, which prompted the shift in political power from the old oligarchic group of elder statesmen (or ) to the Imperial Diet of Japan and the democratic parties. Thus, the era is considered the time of the liberal movement known as Taishō Democracy; it is usually distinguished from the preceding chaotic Meiji era and the following militaristic-driven first part of the Shōwa era. Etymology The two kanji characters in Taishō () were from a passage of the Classical Chinese ''I Ching'': (translated: "Great prevalence is achieved through rectitude, and this is the Dao of Heaven.") The term could be roughly understood as meaning "great rectitude", or "great righteousness". Meiji legacy On 30 July 1912, Emperor Meiji died and Crown Prince Yoshihito succeeded to the throne as Emperor of Japan. In his coron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
