The Hindsight of Toyotomi-Hideyoshi's Invasion of Korea in the Early Modern Times : A Shift in Historical Discourses on the Eve of the Imperial Japan of the Meiji Period(<Special Issue>The "History" of Early Modern Literature)

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  • 文禄・慶長の役を記憶する : 「復古」/「維新」の前提としての武家説話(<特集>近世文学にとっての<歴史>)
  • 文禄・慶長の役を記憶する--「復古」/「維新」の前提としての武家説話
  • ブンロク ケイチョウ ノ エキ オ キオク スル フッコ イシン ノ ゼンテイ ト シテ ノ ブケ セツワ

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In the Edo Period the invasion of Korea by Toyotomi-Hideyoshi had been negatively regarded; in the Bunka and the Bunsei Periods, for example, Koga-Touan, the scholar of the Shohei-zaka Academic Institution, concluded that the invasion was ethically wrong although he thought highly of the impact it made on other countries. But there occurred a shift in historical discourses on it between Perry's Expedition to Japan and the Ansei Purge. Since then it had come to be justified as Toyotomi's heroic enterprise in almost all academic discourses and even in samurai narratives and popular illustrated books. Especially Yoshida-Shoin vindicated it on purpose to authorize imperialistic rule and expansion. Thus the historical discourses on the invasion of this period laid the groundwork for the expansionist policy of the Imperial Japan of the Meiji Period.

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