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Civil War Samurai: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi Onojirō In Antebellum America

by Natalia Doan
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789087284855
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Leiden University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Leiden University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 350
  • Original Price: USD 136.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 649 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asia / Japan

In 1860, seventeen-year-old samurai Tateishi Onojirō, nicknamed "Tommy," made headlines across America for his real and imagined adventures as part of the 1860 Japanese Embassy, the first Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States. The perception of Tateishi's interracial romantic encounters with American women opened up to controversy and questioning the hierarchies of race and culture fundamental to many antebellum American concepts of civilization. This book reveals how Tateishi and his fellow samurai diplomats sparked a whirlwind of national optimism and cultural fantasy within the United States that challenged linked conceptions of race, masculinity, and power. After returning to Japan, Tateishi fought in Japan's civil war and contributed to many of the defining cultural and national endeavors of nineteenth-century Japan. This book reveals the influence of samurai on antebellum American identity formation and the incredible life of a samurai celebrity and civil war survivor.

Natalia Doan ============ Natalia Doan is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she researches and teaches the transnational history of early modern and modern Japan. Her previous work includes the co-edited volume Black Transnationalism and Japan (Leiden University Press: 2024), among other publications.

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