1st Edition
Histories of Children and Childhood in Meiji Japan
Introduction
Christian Galan and Harald Salomon
1. Childbirth and child-rearing in modern Japan
Sawayama Mikako. Translated by Harald Salomon and Karen Grimwade
2. A case study on the life and work of Japanese children in the mid-nineteenth century
Yakuwa Tomohiro. Translated by Harald Salomon and Karen Grimwade
3. Children, family, and state schools in the Meiji era: From “savage” behaviour to “docile” and “useful” bodies
Christian Galan
4. Children’s bodies on the state’s anvil
Michael Kinski
5. Gymnastics manuals and children
Michael Kinski
6. Children and parents in Japanese morality textbooks between 1870 and 1918
Christian Galan
7. Defining child identity under the Meiji Civil Code (1898)
Isabelle Konuma
8. Meiji children’s dual obligation: Reassessing the shift from work to school in modern Japan
Harald Salomon
9. The formation of the concept of shōnen (youth) and emergence of a corresponding life stage in mid-Meiji Japan: An analysis of the magazine Shōnen sekai (The Youth’s world)
Tajima Hajime
10. Children’s street culture in Higuchi Ichiyō’s Takekurabe (1896)
L. Halliday Piel
Biography
Christian Galan is a Professor of Japanese Studies at the University Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France, Researcher at the French Research Institute on East Asia in Paris, and the co-director of the Collection Japon at Belles Lettres.
Harald Salomon is the Director of the Mori Ogai Center and a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
