Journal Article / 学 術 雑 誌 論 文 徳 富 蘇 峰 の 日 本 論 中 国 論 TOKUTOMI Soho's Perspective on 藤 田, 昌 志 FUJITA, Masashi 比 較 文 化 研 究. 2011, 96, p. 13-25. http://hdl.handle.net/10076/11945
TOKUTOMI Soho's Perspective on Japan and China Masashi FUJITA Mie Uniaersit,t Abstract TOKUTOMI Soho (1863-1957) seems to have embodied his view of Japanese nationalism with several changes from democratism to nationalism, and eventually to ultranationalism. Are these changes due to his opportunism or inevitable ones? Japanese people tend to respect their status in the groups or communities where they live, and make it as their criteria of evaluation. Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) saw through such a tendency with her shrewd observation and wrote The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, while how did Tokutomi see the world of his time? How did he estimate Japan as a nation in the world? I would like to try to clarify his perspectives on Japan and China in relation to his time in order to consider the real designs he described.