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| tokuju | | special procurements for Japanese products from US forces fighting in Korean War |
t yno dtoku, | | ‘eastern ethics, western science’, slogan popular in late |
| seiyno gakugei | | Tokugawa period |
| tozama | | ‘outer’ daimy not traditionally loyal to Tokugawa house |
| uchi | | home or inside |
| ukiyo | | ‘floating world’, originally a reference to transience of life but from Tokugawa period a reference to human relations, inc. sexual. |
| ukiyo-e | | prints of life and people of Tokugawa period, often sexually explicit |
| ukiyo-zshi | | sexually titillating books of Tokugawa period |
| ura | | rear or that below surface |
| wabi | | aesthetic value of subdued taste |
| wakon ysai | | ‘Japanese spirit, western learning’, slogan popular in early Meiji period |
| ygaku | | western learning |
| yomihon | | popular tales of romance in Tokugawa period |
y gen | | aesthetic value of elegant and tranquil otherworldliness |
| yutari no aru kyiku | | ‘education with latitude’ |
| zaibatsu | | large financial combine or company |
I
NDEX
Abe Shinz
192
aging (society)
185–7
agriculture
12–13
,
22
,
25–6
,
40
,
44
,
47
,
51
,
66–7
,
84
,
99–101
,
121
,
133
,
144
,
151–2
,
160
,
162
,
225(n12)
Akechi Mitsuhide
47–8
Akiba Taisuke
237(n21)
Americanisation
142ff
see also
westernisation
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