{"id":2580,"date":"2019-10-04T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2023-03-19T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T20:06:56","slug":"chapter-1-invented-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/?p=2580","title":{"rendered":"Invented Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:100\">Mapping | Part one &#8216;Invented Tradition&#8217; tells about constructing an own historic narrative by separating two types of Japanese &#8216;tradition&#8217;, those which emphasised the differences with China (kokugaku) and those which identi\u00adfied with it (kangaku). Before the transformation from a feudalist system to the revolutionary breakthrough to modernity, in many ways very similar to those which industrialization in Europe was attributed to, Japan had no need to identify itself as a nation to proof the others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">In the rush to handle the foreign impact after the forced opening of the country, people had to learn to express what identifies them as a cultural entity, not only connected by language, customs, and myths. By doing so, Japan followed a strategy combined of ad\u00ad miration and antagonism, it used in her pre\u00admodern period to its former greatest Other, China. Been visited by Portuguese Jesuits as early as the mid 16th century, Japanese was also permanent aware of Western achievements, even under their time of self\u00adisolation. Mediated through books, artworks and scientific ob\u00ad jects, Western culture was no stranger to the elite when establishing its new identity as a modern state for gaining entry into and participating in a Hegelian configuration of &#8216;world history.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/map1-Invented-Tradition.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width:1200px;height:800px;\" data-width=\"1200\" data-height=\"800\" data-toolbar=\"top\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">map1-Invented Tradition<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/map2-Invented-Tradition-pictoral.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width:1200px;height:800px;\" data-width=\"1200\" data-height=\"800\" data-toolbar=\"top\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">map2-Invented Tradition-pictoral<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mapping | Part one &#8216;Invented Tradition&#8217; tells about constructing an own historic narrative by separating two types of Japanese &#8216;tradition&#8217;, those which emphasised the differences with China (kokugaku) and those which identi\u00adfied with it (kangaku). Before the transformation from a feudalist system to the revolutionary breakthrough to modernity, in many ways very similar to those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Emperor-Meiji-1852-1912-.jpg-copy.jpeg?fit=560%2C300","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54TaA-FC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4397,"href":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/4397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}