Sonnô Jôi: The Leaps in Logic in the Modern Japanese Political Scene
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This article studies the mechanism of sonnô jôi (“Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians”), which caused the dissolvement of bakuhan system and consequently brought about Meiji Restoration.Sonnô jôi, originally means crying for the expulsion of western powers, came to consent to kaikoku (opening ports) and accept westernization, displaying great changeability in logic and goal as Japan’s foreign and domestic political situation developed. The uncertainty of the logic of sonnô jôi stems from the basic fragility of the dual political structure of the b a kuhan system, in which the shôgun, as a practical executioner of political power, and the tennô, asymbolic authority with little power, coexisted. The Bakufu’s ambiguo u s political ground never allowed Japan to have a sound national ideology like Korea. The absence of a value system that was strong enough for ideological control led to the rise of k o k u g a k u and its impacton sonnô jôi.
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This article studies the mechanism of sonnô jôi (“Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians”), which caused the dissolvement of bakuhan system and consequently brought about Meiji Restoration.Sonnô jôi, originally means crying for the expulsion of western powers, came to consent to kaikoku (opening ports) and accept westernization, displaying great changeability in logic and goal as Japan’s foreign and domestic political situation developed. The uncertainty of the logic of sonnô jôi stems from the basic fragility of the dual political structure of the b a kuhan system, in which the shôgun, as a practical executioner of political power, and the tennô, asymbolic authority with little power, coexisted. The Bakufu’s ambiguo u s political ground never allowed Japan to have a sound national ideology like Korea. The absence of a value system that was strong enough for ideological control led to the rise of k o k u g a k u and its impacton sonnô jôi.