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Delivered by Ingenta to IP: 192.168.39.211 on: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:32:24 In this way, revised and recovered its distinct regional identity, while during theBoshinWar becameemblematicofthis refashioned“Aizuspirit.” (White Tiger) Brigade committingsuicidebyseppukuonMountIimori of sixteen, then nineteen teenage boys of the melodramatic story martial valourandhistorical traditionsof“theAizuspirit.” Thetragicand qualities of defense oftheirlordandland.Theyexemplified theloyalanddutiful against the Emperor andnotnecessarily fortheTokugawa regime, butforthe Aizu’s peopleconvincedthemselves theyhadfoughttheBoshinWar not andmalnutrition,wereallowedtoreturn toAizu.Moreover,due tostarvation community inTonami, whichprovedtobeadisasterandledmanydeaths of battle.Aizuwarriorsandfamilieswhoweresentto begin anagricultural starting withthehandlingandburialofAizu’s warriorswhodiedonthefield officials oftheMeijigovernmenttounderstandand haverespectforAizu, narrates andanalyzesagradualprogressionofAizu leadersconvincing the newimperialMeijigovernment. ofshogunandbecamerebelstraitors to their identityasloyalservants then defeated Aizu in the , Matsudaira Katamori and Aizu lost when Satsuma,Choshu,andtheiralliesdefeatedtheTokugawa regimeand the “pro-imperial” forces led by Choshu, soon to be joined by Satsuma. But Katamori andhisAizuwarriorswouldsupporttheirallyinthebattlesagainst shogunate inthe1850sandearly 1860s,therewaslittledoubtthatMatsudaira When seriousdifficulties,bothinternalandforeign,weakenedthe Tokugawa appointed guardiantotheyouthfulshogunIetsunauponIemitsu’s death. capableleaderofthedomainandwaslater Hoshina provedtobeavery appointed hishalf-brotherHoshinaMasayukiasdaimyō ofAizuin1643. when Tokugawain the early seventeenth century Iemitsu, the third shogun, Aizu’s historicalidentityinJapan’s nationalconsciousness. that it did not take as long to rebuild, revise, and incorporate a replica of Aizu’s proudwarriortradition.HirakuShimoda’s monographdemonstrates asamuseumto main structureofthecastlewasbuiltonsiteandserves Ninetyyearslater,was torndownsoonafterwards. aconcretereplicaofthe to surrender even after the Tokugawa regime capitulated. Tsuruga Castle Satsuma andChoshudefeatedtherebelliousdomainthatstubbornlyrefused and Identity inImperialJapanisofTsuruga Castle,headquarters ofAizudomain The coverphotograph on the jacket of Lostand Found: Recovering Regional viii, 159pp.(Illustration, map.) US$39.95,cloth.ISBN978-0-674-49201-1. UniversityPress [distributor],2014. UniversityAsiaCenter;Harvard Harvard East Asian Monographs,Harvard 364. By Hiraku Shimoda. LOSTANDFOUND: . RegionalIdentityinImperial Recovering Using governmentdocuments,memoirsandlocalhistories, Shimoda The connectionbetweenAizudomainandtheTokugawa regimebegan daimyō MatsudairaKatamori,soonafterthe“pro-imperial”forcesof Aizuppo, or “sons of Aizu,” combined with the psychic unity of Book Reviews Cambridge, MA: 165 Copyright (c) Pacific Affairs. All rights reserved. Delivered by Ingenta to IP: 192.168.39.211 on: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:32:24 Birmingham, USA The UniversityofAlabamaatBirmingham, this tobeavaluablecasestudy. useful, whilescholarsofregionalandnationalidentity formationwillfind imperial Japan.ScholarsofMeiji-eraJapanwillfindLostandFound especially but graduallyrecovered and revised its identity to fit with thenewpolity of of beingknownas“rebellious”withthedefeat Tokugawa regime, an importantstudyofamajorregionJapanthatsuffered theindignity Shimoda’s this informativeand,again,well-researchedstudyisspecificallyaboutAizu. this study. Finally, neitherthetitlenorsubtitleofbookindicatesthat comparison andconnectiontoAizu’s rehabilitationthanisindicatedin is noted in Lost and Found, but it seems to this reviewer there is more potential imperial polityafterhisbattlesagainstthenewMeijigovernmentin1876– months later in Aizu? Saigo Takamori’s pardon and rehabilitation into the new Meijileaders,asdidtheburialsofwarriorswhodiedfightingafew these Aizu(andKuwana)warriorsbecomeanissuethatwasnegotiatedbythe are buriedonthegroundsofKurodaniTemple inKyoto.Didtheburialsof is nomentionoftheAizuwarriorswhodiedatBattleToba-Fushimi and Shimoda discussestheissueofproperburialforAizu’s warriorsinAizu,there regime’s handpicked police forceintheimperialcapitalofKyoto.While as the Tokugawathe years Matsudaira and some of his Aizu warriors served polity, theauthorcouldhaveincludedmoredescriptionandanalysisof Matsudaira KatamoriplayedaroleinAizu’s incorporationintothenational oflettersfromEmperorKomei(EmperorMeiji’sdiscovery father)thanking couple oftopicsthatshouldhavebeenincludedinthisstudy. Althoughthe the nationalpolityduringMeijiera.Nevertheless,Ibelievetherearea the Tokugawa regime, recovereditsidentityandbecameincorporatedinto and well-researchedstudyofhowAizu,amajor“loser”theoverthrow of EmperorShowa,in1928. married PrinceChichibu,EmperorMeiji’s grandsonandyoungerbrother was completed even before Matsudaira Katamori’s granddaughter, Setsuko, revision ofitsregionalidentityandincorporationintotheimperialpolity ofImperialJapan.Aizu’sand domainsintooneunitedcountry and recovery the Meiji government simultaneously sought to incorporate the provinces 166 Despite the concerns about omissions in the previous paragraph, Hiraku Despite theconcernsaboutomissionsinpreviousparagraph,Hiraku Lost andFound: Recovering Regional Identity inImperialJapanisawell-written Lost andFound: RecoveringRegionalIdentityinImperialJapanis Pacific Affairs: Volume89,No.1–March 2016

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