Bakunin's Sojourn in Japan : Nailing Down an Enigma (2)
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It is not generally known that the Russian anarchist Bakunin's successful escape from Siberia in 1861 was a side-result of the ending of Japan's 250-year policy of exclusion. Part 1 of this article presented an overview of the events that brought Bakunin to Japan, set out the socio-political background of the times, and sketched the main events of his two-week stay in Hakodate and Yokohama and subsequent route back to England via America. The present paper delves into other aspects of the hardly-explored relationship between Bakunin and Japan. Beginning from an examination of his pre-anarchist activities following his successful return to Europe, I suggest that many of the decentralizing ideas he held even then had a certain degree of influence on Japan's Popular Rights Movement. The medium for their transmission was furnished by the contacts forged between the liberal Japanese intellectuals Nakae Chomin and Saionji Kimmochi on the one hand, and the radical French jurist Emile Acollas, who was strongly influenced by Bakunin's ideas, on the other. The paper investigates the nature of the relationships among these men, and makes some new suggestions concerning cultural contacts between Japan and Europe in the late 19th century. The second half of the paper looks into the unlikely coincidences linking certain facts of Bakunin's life to the Meiji Constitution. These include the influence on his thinking of von Stein, one of the principal sources of inspiration for the constitution, and the process whereby Bluntschli, who signed the first arrest warrant ever issued for Bakunin, came to be the source of the Meiji Emperor's political education.
- 桃山学院大学の論文
- 1994-09-30
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