This talk is part of the “Reopening the ‘Opening of Japan’” Two-day international graduate conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Ishin at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford. For our full list of speakers, please see reopeningtheopening.wordpress.com

Panel 3 – Humanistic Naturalism and the Garden of One Light: The Competing Modernities of Kunikida Doppo and Nishida Tenkō

Ariel Acosta
Labor, Spirit, and Self Across the Early Modern/Modern Divide: Nishida Tenkô’s Ittôen , Ninomiya Sontoku, and Leo Tolstoy
Yu Sakai
Inciting a ‘second revolution’: kunikida doppo, the minyusha, and the renewed pursuit of the Ishin Ideals in the mid-Meiji period