Meiji Restoration (English)

Japanese: Meiji Restoration(英語表記)MeijiRestoration
Meiji Restoration (English)

…The Meiji Restoration is a typical example, where the restoration of the illusion of the past functioned as an ideology for absorbing energy from below into the new government. Incidentally, the Meiji Restoration is called the Meiji Restoration in English.
【Japan】
In the first half of the 19th century, faced with a growing sense of external crisis due to the advance of Western countries into Asia and the instability of the Shogunate-han system due to the spread of the commodity economy, the idea of ​​the "national polity," that Japan was a country superior to foreign countries ruled by an "unbroken imperial line" (an unbroken line of emperors), was advocated primarily by scholars of "Mitogaku," with the intention of encouraging domestic unity to counter foreign threats and at the same time strengthening the Shogunate-han system.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…明治維新がその典型の一つだが,そこでは下からのエネルギーを維新政権の中に吸収してゆくためのイデオロギーとして,過去の幻影の〈復古〉が機能したのである。ちなみに明治維新を英語でMeiji Restorationという。
【日本】
 19世紀前半,西欧諸国のアジア進出による対外的危機感の増大と,商品経済の浸透に伴う幕藩体制の動揺を前にして,外国の脅威に対抗するために国内の結束を促し,併せて幕藩体制を強化するという意図のもとに,〈水戸学〉の学者を中心として,日本は〈万世一系〉の天皇の君臨する諸外国に優越した国であるという〈国体〉の観念が唱えられた。…

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