This is a list of key words that are used in the following video lecture (next page). Familiarizing yourself with these terms would help you understand the lecture better. Feel free to do further research about any of the included terms to learn more.
*This glossary was compiled by Saeko Suzuki on June 27, 2022
以下は、次ページのビデオ講議で使用されるキーワードのリストである。講議の内容をより深めるために、主に英語使用者向けに用意されたものだが、日本語使用者でも特に気になるワードについては予習を薦める。
*リスト作成者：鈴木紗江子（2022年6月27日）
Ansei gokakoku jōyaku 安政五箇国条約: The Ansei Treaties of 1858; a series of unequal agreements which opened the port of Yokohama to foreign trade. Concluded between Japan and the five powers of the United States, Russia, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and France.
Bakumatsu 幕末 (ca.1854–1867): A transitional period before the Tokugawa government transferred political and military authority to the imperial court.
Edo era 江戸時代 (1603–1867): The period of the Tokugawa military government; also considered part of the early modern period.
Gesaku 戯作: A general term for Edo period popular literature, such as romantic novellas or comic novellas.
Hanmoto 版元: Publishers who emerged and developed during the Edo era and predominantly produced woodblock prints and books.
Hanpon 版本: Woodblock-printed books.
Meiji era 明治時代 (1868–1912): The period of the modern imperial government; also regarded as the start of the modern period.
Meiji Ishin 明治維新: The Meiji Restoration. There are various dates given for this historical event, but for the purposes of this video, its beginning is in 1868 upon the creation of the Meiji government. The Restoration was a significant transformation in Japan, which moved away from the Tokugawa feudal system and toward the modern imperial one in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Ninjōbon 人情本: A genre of romantic novella literature developed in early nineteenth-century Japan that was primarily aimed at commoner women.
Sakoku 鎖国: The seclusion policy in place from 1603 to 1867 used by the Tokugawa military to strengthen its authority by restricting diplomacy, foreign trade, and traffic.
Sanjō no kyōken 三条の教憲: The Three Articles for Standardizing for Indoctrination Policy proclaimed by the imperial government in April 1872. This was a political ideology based on Shintō beliefs which were used to establish the modern imperial system.
Shintō 神道: A religion originating in Japan. Shintō is polytheistic and has no single creator or specific doctrine. In the State Shintō system of the Meiji era, Emperor Meiji was declared a god.
Sonnō jōi movement 尊王攘夷: A political movement based on the thoughts of sonnō, which claimed to respect the traditional authority of the emperor, and jōi, which proclaimed the superiority of Japanese and East Asian culture over the savagery of Western culture.