Fujiwara, Gideon
Faculty
History and Religion Department
- Phone
- (403) 329-2502
- gideon.fujiwara@uleth.ca
About Me
Gideon Fujiwara studies the social and intellectual history of Japan, focusing on the Tokugawa (1600-1868) to Meiji periods (1868-1912). He holds a PhD in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia (2013), an MA in Japanese Intellectual History from Tohoku University (2004), and a BA in a History and English Literature Double Major also from UBC (1999).
His first monograph, From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan, will be released in May 2021 by Cornell East Asia Series of Cornell University Press. See below for details, including ordering info and discount code.
He teaches histories of the World, East Asia, China, Japan, Nation and Nationalism, and Modernity, as well as Asian Studies. These courses can be counted toward a History major or minor, or an Asian Studies minor. In addition to his post in the History Department, Gideon is Coordinator of Asian Studies and serves on the Asian Studies Program Advisory Committee.
Courses Taught:
HIST 1200 World History
ASIA 1000 Introduction to Asia
ASIA 1850 Japan and International Relations
ASIA 2020 Japan, Asia, and the World
HIST 2290 Main Themes in East Asian History
HIST 3280 Imperial China
HIST 3290 Japan, 1570-1890 (Early Modern to Modern Japan)
HIST 4040 Nation and Nationalism in East Asia
HIST 4040 Modernity in East Asia
His first monograph, From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan, will be released in May 2021 by Cornell East Asia Series of Cornell University Press. See below for details, including ordering info and discount code.
He teaches histories of the World, East Asia, China, Japan, Nation and Nationalism, and Modernity, as well as Asian Studies. These courses can be counted toward a History major or minor, or an Asian Studies minor. In addition to his post in the History Department, Gideon is Coordinator of Asian Studies and serves on the Asian Studies Program Advisory Committee.
Courses Taught:
HIST 1200 World History
ASIA 1000 Introduction to Asia
ASIA 1850 Japan and International Relations
ASIA 2020 Japan, Asia, and the World
HIST 2290 Main Themes in East Asian History
HIST 3280 Imperial China
HIST 3290 Japan, 1570-1890 (Early Modern to Modern Japan)
HIST 4040 Nation and Nationalism in East Asia
HIST 4040 Modernity in East Asia
Publications
Monograph: From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Ithaca, New York: Cornell East Asia Series of Cornell University Press, May 2021. See details below including ordering info and discount code.
Book chapter: "Hirao Rosen no kiita oto to ongaku: Hokuo no gurōbakuka to shakai hen'yō," Kindai ikōki ni okeru chiiki keisei to ongaku: tsukurareru dentō to ibunka sesshoku. ("Sounds and Music Heard by Hirao Rosen: Globalization and Social Change in Northeastern Japan" in Regional Development and Music in a Period of Modern Transition: Created Tradition and Contact with Foreign Cultures) Eds. Kitahara Kanako, Namikawa Kenji. Kyoto: Minerva shobō, 2020. pp. 145-167.
Entry co-authored with Peter Nosco, "The Kokugaku (Native Studies) School." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, first published November 16, 2018. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kokugaku-school/
Online blog: "(In)Forming Meiji: 2 Revolutions in 19th-Century Japan" on Age of Revolutions: A HistorioBLOG. Published January 8, 2018.
https://ageofrevolutions.com/2018/01/08/informing-meiji-2-revolutions-in-19th-century-japan/
Journal article: "Channeling the Undercurrents: Fūsetsudome, Information Access, and National Political Awareness in Nineteenth-Century Japan." The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 43 no. 2, Summer 2017, pp. 319-354.
http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/36679
Book chapter: "Rebirth of a Hirata School Nativist: Tsuruya Ariyo and His Kaganabe Journal," Values, Identity and Equality in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Japan. Eds. Peter Nosco, James Ketelaar, and Yasunori Kojima. Leiden: Brill, Sept. 2015. pp. 134-158.
Book chapter: "Boshin sensō to Hirosaki shōkonsai ni kansuru ichi kōsatsu: Hirosaki no Hirata monjin wo chūshin ni," Kinsei Nihon no gensetsu to chi: Chiiki shakai no hen'yō wo meguru shisō to ishiki. (The Boshin War and Festival to "Call Back Souls" in Hirosaki: With Focus on the Hirata Disciples of Hirosaki," Discourse and "Knowledge" in Early Modern Japan: Thought and Consciousness on Local Society in Transformation) Eds. Namikawa Kenji and Kojima Yasunori. Osaka: Seibundō, 2013. pp. 234-257.
Journal article: "Hirao Rosen cho Hirao Rosen kashū ni tsuite: (Honkoku) Hirosaki shiritsu toshokanzō Hirao Rosen kashū" (On Hirao Rosen's Hirao Rosen poetry anthology: (Document Transcription with Introduction) Archived in Hirosaki Municipal Library) Hirosaki daigaku kokugo bungaku (Hirosaki University Language and Literature Studies) Vol. 32 (March 20, 2011) pp. 54-81.
Journal article: "Matsumae fūkei: Hokkaidō daigaku fuzoku toshokan Hoppō kankei shiryōshitsuzō" (Introduction and Analysis: Matsumae Landscape: Archived in Northern Studies Collection, Hokkaido University Library) Hirosaki Daigaku kokushi kenkyū (Hirosaki University Studies in Japanese History) Vol. 130 (March 2011) pp. 41-56.
Book chapter: "Hirao Rosen no kiita oto to ongaku: Hokuo no gurōbakuka to shakai hen'yō," Kindai ikōki ni okeru chiiki keisei to ongaku: tsukurareru dentō to ibunka sesshoku. ("Sounds and Music Heard by Hirao Rosen: Globalization and Social Change in Northeastern Japan" in Regional Development and Music in a Period of Modern Transition: Created Tradition and Contact with Foreign Cultures) Eds. Kitahara Kanako, Namikawa Kenji. Kyoto: Minerva shobō, 2020. pp. 145-167.
Entry co-authored with Peter Nosco, "The Kokugaku (Native Studies) School." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, first published November 16, 2018. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kokugaku-school/
Online blog: "(In)Forming Meiji: 2 Revolutions in 19th-Century Japan" on Age of Revolutions: A HistorioBLOG. Published January 8, 2018.
https://ageofrevolutions.com/2018/01/08/informing-meiji-2-revolutions-in-19th-century-japan/
Journal article: "Channeling the Undercurrents: Fūsetsudome, Information Access, and National Political Awareness in Nineteenth-Century Japan." The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 43 no. 2, Summer 2017, pp. 319-354.
http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/36679
Book chapter: "Rebirth of a Hirata School Nativist: Tsuruya Ariyo and His Kaganabe Journal," Values, Identity and Equality in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Japan. Eds. Peter Nosco, James Ketelaar, and Yasunori Kojima. Leiden: Brill, Sept. 2015. pp. 134-158.
Book chapter: "Boshin sensō to Hirosaki shōkonsai ni kansuru ichi kōsatsu: Hirosaki no Hirata monjin wo chūshin ni," Kinsei Nihon no gensetsu to chi: Chiiki shakai no hen'yō wo meguru shisō to ishiki. (The Boshin War and Festival to "Call Back Souls" in Hirosaki: With Focus on the Hirata Disciples of Hirosaki," Discourse and "Knowledge" in Early Modern Japan: Thought and Consciousness on Local Society in Transformation) Eds. Namikawa Kenji and Kojima Yasunori. Osaka: Seibundō, 2013. pp. 234-257.
Journal article: "Hirao Rosen cho Hirao Rosen kashū ni tsuite: (Honkoku) Hirosaki shiritsu toshokanzō Hirao Rosen kashū" (On Hirao Rosen's Hirao Rosen poetry anthology: (Document Transcription with Introduction) Archived in Hirosaki Municipal Library) Hirosaki daigaku kokugo bungaku (Hirosaki University Language and Literature Studies) Vol. 32 (March 20, 2011) pp. 54-81.
Journal article: "Matsumae fūkei: Hokkaidō daigaku fuzoku toshokan Hoppō kankei shiryōshitsuzō" (Introduction and Analysis: Matsumae Landscape: Archived in Northern Studies Collection, Hokkaido University Library) Hirosaki Daigaku kokushi kenkyū (Hirosaki University Studies in Japanese History) Vol. 130 (March 2011) pp. 41-56.
Research Interests
Gideon's research looks at early modern to modern Japan, intellectual networks, kokugaku (Japan studies), community, nation and nationalism, regionalism, modernity, and information access. His first monograph, From Country to Nation, will be released in May 2021 by Cornell University Press. Ongoing projects include studies of the northeastern region of Tohoku, waka poetry in modern society, and the experience of modernity through local and global sounds.
Links
Association for Asian Studies
Article: "Channeling the Undercurrents." Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, Summer 2017.