Mainichi Publishing Culture Award
明治の政治家たち 上巻: 原敬につらなる人々 (岩波新書 青版 31)
Meiji no Seijika-tachi is Shiso Hattori's historical study of Meiji constitutional politicians as figures leading toward Hara Takashi. By following Mutsu Munemitsu, Hoshi Toru, Ito Hirobumi, Itagaki Taisuke, Okuma Shigenobu, Yamagata Aritomo, Katsura Taro, Saionji Kinmochi, Hara Takashi, and others, it brings out the character of Japanese politics inherited from Meiji into Taisho and Showa.
Work Information
The book reads the flow of Meiji political history not only through institutions but through birth, temperament, and political skill.
Meiji no Seijika-tachi: Hara Takashi ni Tsuranaru Hitobito is Shiso Hattori's two-volume Iwanami Shinsho work. CiNii confirms the upper and lower volumes published by Iwanami Shoten between April 1950 and December 1954, and the work was recognized by the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award. A direct Amazon Japan page could not be confirmed, but publication as a book was checked through Maruzen Junkudo, Kinokuniya, CiNii, and NDL. The bookIdentifiers field uses the upper volume ISBN 9784004131236; the lower volume ISBN 9784004131243 is noted in availability.
Review Summaries
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The book is valuable for reading Meiji political history through the personalities and political skills of its figures, based on abundant materials. Relationships and the formation of party politics, which are harder to see through institutional history alone, emerge through the people involved.
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The book is positioned as one of the author's representative works in modern historical studies. While grounded in materialist historiography, it links the structure of the period with the actions of individuals by portraying Meiji politicians one by one.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 岩波書店
- Published
- 1950-04-10
- Pages
- 194 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784004131236
- ISBN-10
- 4004131235
- Price
- 27 JPY
- Category
- 本/ノンフィクション
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