Episode 24 - Prof. Peter Kornicki (Cambridge)

In this episode, Prof. Peter Kornicki challenges the narrative of the Meiji period as revolutionary, instead underlining continuities in literary tastes, practices, and writing through the 1880s.  We discuss the origins, meaning of, and alternatives to the term "Restoration," literary transitions in the mid-Meiji Period, and popular discontentment and protest. (Transcript here).