This event has been cancelled, and will be rescheduled TBA. “Living in the Face of Death: Martial Mindfulness in Modern Japan” Christopher Goto-Jones Dean of Humanities Professor of Philosophy University of Victoria This event is jointly sponsored by the UBC Meiji at 150 Committee, Centre for Japanese Research, Department of History and Department of […]
The social and political importance of families and family continuity transcended the Tokugawa-Meiji divide. This talk focuses on a common strategy for preserving a family line: the adoption of heirs, especially the adoption of sons-in-law. While the practice of son-in-law adoption remained frequent from Tokugawa to Meiji, the legal, ideological, and sociocultural context in which […]
By around 1700, most families in Japan were formed through stem succession: a single male heir inherited virtually all resources while his siblings departed the household. The practice cut across social station and calling, making it exceptional in the early modern world, and arose in combination with equally arresting patterns of familial conduct: the routine adoption of heirs, […]
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