Mutsu Munemitsu and his time /
Okazaki, Hisahiko,1930-2014,author.
Noda, Makito.translator.
Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan,publisher.
"The original English translation is based on the paperback version of 'Mutsu Munemitsu to sono jidai,' published by PHP Institute, Inc. in 2003; first published in hardcover by the same publisher in 1999"--Opposite of title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337).
Father and son : at the apex of eighteenth-century culture -- Date Munehiro in exile (Jitoku-ō) : intellectual pilgrimage of an Edo dignitary -- Meiji restoration : into the age of revolution and gun smoke -- Giant wings broken : the rise and fall of a Prussian-style military state -- A bush warbler in winter : involved in Tosa's adventure -- Burning the midnight oil again : study during imprisonment -- Burning the midnight oil a third time : in a Prussian-style constitution appropriate? -- The origins of Japanese democracy : building a modern nation-state -- The dawn of constitutional government : a Samurai democracy to be proud of -- First setback for the parliamentary democracy : bloody intervention in the election -- Revision of treaties : freedom from half a century of humiliation -- Rivalry on the Korean Peninsula : one imperialism vs. another -- The Donghak peasant rebellion : is Korea a tributary to Qing China? -- The eve of the first Sino-Japanese War : tenacity -- A war of diplomacy : keeping the Western powers at bay -- The Battle of Pungdo : dawn of an empire -- Japan sails to victory : China's strategic dilemma -- The final phase of the ware : a race against time -- The treaty of Shimonoseki : Li Hongzhang in Japan -- The Tripartite Intervention : an unavoidable concession -- Mutsu's death : fighting for democracy to the last.
Mutsu, Munemitsu, 1844-1897.
Diplomats
Mutsu Munemitsu to sono jidai.