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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This book reinterprets the Meiji Restoration as a struggle over how narratives of authority founded modern Japan. It rejects accounts of recovered sovereignty, inevitable modernization, or Tokugawa overthrow, reconstructing the 1860s through rival mediations of political order. Narrative assigns agency, organizes time, distinguishes legitimate force from rebellion, and defines possible futures. "Restoration" itself turns innovation into return, construction into recovery, and contingent victory into historical necessity.Late Tokugawa Japan contained divided authority among the bakufu, domains, and imperial court. Aizu understood Tokugawa service through an ethical grammar linking retainer, lord, domain, shogunate, court, and realm. Its loyalty was not simply opposition to the emperor, but fidelity enacted through an inherited chain of authority. By contrast, Satsuma and Choshu used court access to represent domainal armies and networks as instruments of imperial will. Sanction, military success, recognition, and institutional growth reinforced one another until a coalition could act as a national government.The emperor functions as a contested signifier: a source of exceptional legitimacy whose meaning required interpretation and enforcement. The coalition occupied these channels while presenting its program as unmediated sovereign command. Toba-Fushimi made this transformation performative, as banners, military outcomes, allegiances, and expectations produced the legitimacy they later seemed merely to confirm. Civil violence was therefore constitutive, not incidental. Through the Boshin War and the designation choteki, "enemy of the court," force and juridical naming displaced Aizu into the registers of rebellion, tragedy, and regional memory.Aizu's defeat generated a counter-memory centered on suffering, Aizuwakamatsu, and the Byakkotai. The book preserves its ethical seriousness without making martyrdom political proof: victory cannot make the victor eternally correct, but suffering cannot make the defeated infallible. The same resistance to teleology shapes state formation: the abolition of the domains, conscription, national education, bureaucratic expansion, and the Constitution of 1889 were constructed after 1868, not destined by it. The victorious domains disappeared into the centralized state, while loyalty, service, discipline, honor, and sacrifice were detached from local relationships and redirected toward emperor and nation.The central concept is mimetic misprision: actors mistake situated reenactments of inherited authority for its immediate presence. Political inheritance requires interpretation, yet authoritative performances conceal that labor by presenting judgment as obedience, interest as duty, and strategy as necessity. Aizu's loyalism and the coalition's imperial claims could both be sincere while historically mediated. The decisive difference was that one interpretation gained the coercive and institutional power to make its misrecognition binding.Nash equilibrium explains how that interpretation became durable without universal agreement. Ritual, administration, conscription, schooling, and military organization coordinated expectations and raised the cost of departure. The Meiji Constitution preserved military autonomy within an emperor-centered order, allowing officers to present institutional judgment as sovereign service. Showa Restoration rhetoric repeated the same form: a pure emperor, corrupt mediators, and political intervention disguised as faithful return. Crisis, party weakness, imperial expansion, and escalating commitments hardened this structure into a militarized equilibrium and then lock-in. The road to the Asia-Pacific War was neither predetermined nor accidental, but a contingent passage from narrative struggle to institutio Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Weather of Time is a collection of contemporary poetry that explores the intertwined landscapes of history, memory, love, mortality, faith, and civic responsibility. Rather than presenting individual poems as isolated lyrical moments, the volume unfolds as a sustained meditation in which recurring images, voices, and forms accumulate into a unified poetic vision. Read sequentially, the poems reveal an evolving dialogue between personal experience and collective history, inviting readers to inhabit the changing "weather" through which every human life must pass.The title serves as the collection's central metaphor. Weather is immediate, shifting, and deeply felt; time is invisible, irreversible, and universal. Together they suggest that history is not merely a chronology of events but the atmosphere in which human lives are formed. Seasons become ethical as well as natural realities. Winter embodies endurance and uncertainty; spring offers renewal without denying suffering; rivers, orchards, birds, and changing light become recurring symbols through which the poems explore hope, loss, and perseverance.At the heart of the collection lies the conviction that private and public life cannot be separated. Poems of family, friendship, aging, illness, and bereavement stand beside reflections on democracy, justice, institutional responsibility, and historical memory. Personal grief mirrors civic fracture, while acts of compassion illuminate broader questions of responsibility. Throughout the volume, memory is presented not as nostalgia but as an ethical practice through which individuals and societies resist forgetting, confront injustice, and preserve the possibility of renewal.The manuscript employs a wide range of poetic forms, including Shakespearean sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, elegies, odes, Anglo-Saxon-inspired verse, and free verse. These forms are not simply demonstrations of craftsmanship but interpretive structures. Repetition evokes historical recurrence, formal discipline shapes moral reflection, and freer structures accommodate uncertainty without sacrificing coherence.Nature provides the collection's enduring symbolic language. Frost, rain, moss, mountains, flowers, trees, and changing seasons are never merely descriptive landscapes but active participants in the poems' moral imagination. Houses, windows, doors, staircases, and empty rooms likewise become metaphors for memory, absence, grief, and hope, transforming familiar places into landscapes of emotional reflection.Literary tradition also shapes the collection's distinctive voice. Echoes of Shakespeare, Milton, the King James Bible, Anglo-Saxon elegy, Romantic lyric, and modern poetry converse with contemporary concerns, illuminating questions of authority, justice, identity, and responsibility.Despite its engagement with sorrow, political uncertainty, and mortality, The Weather of Time is ultimately a work of disciplined hope. It rejects both sentimentality and despair, suggesting instead that endurance arises through careful attention, moral courage, and the willingness to remember. Rich in formal craftsmanship, symbolic coherence, and emotional depth, the collection invites slow, attentive reading, revealing new relationships among its recurring images and themes. It is a work that asks not how time may be mastered, but how wisdom, compassion, and hope may endure within its passing seasons. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…