LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
1. Tradition: Past/Present Culture and Modern Japanese History
Stephen Vlastos
PART ONE • HARMONY
2. The Invention of Japanese-Style Labor Management
Andrew Gordon
3. The Invention of Wa and the Transformation of the Image
of Prince Shotoku in Modern Japan
Ito Kimio
4. Weak Legal Consciousness as Invented Tradition Frank
K Upham
PART TWO • VILLAGE
5. The Japanese Village: Imagined, Real,
Contested Irwin ScheMer
6. Agrarianism Without Tradition: The Radical
Critique of Prewar Japanese Modernity Stephen Vlastos
7. Colonizing Manchuria: The Making of an
Imperial Myth Louise Young
8. It Takes a Village: Internationalization and
Nostalgia in Postwar Japan Jennifer Robertson
PART THREE • FOLK
9. Chiho: Yanagita Kunio's lapan"
Hashimoto Mitsuru
to. Figuring the Folk: History, Poetics, and Representation
H. D. Harootunian
PART FOUR • SPORTS
The Invention of the Martial Arts: Kano Jigoro and Kodokan Judo
Inoue Shun
12. The Invention of the Yokozuna and the
Championship System, Or, Futahaguro's Revenge
Lee A. Thompson
PART FIVE • GENDER
13. At Home in the Meiji Period: Inventing
Japanese Domesticity Jordan Sand
14. The Cafe Waitress Serving Modern Japan Miriam
Silverberg
PART SIX • HISTORY
15. Constructing Shinano: The Invention of a
Neo-Traditional Region Karen Wigen
16. "Doubly Cruel": Marxism and the Presence of
the Past in Japanese Capitalism Andrew E. Barshay
17. The Invention of Edo Carol Gluck
18. Afterword: Revisiting the Tradition /Modernity Binary
Dipesh Chakrabarty
GLOSSARY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
Stephen Vlastos is Professor of History at the University of Iowa, and author of Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan (California, 1986).
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