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Japan's Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzō, 1861–1930. By John F. Howes. Vancouver: UBC, 2005. xviii+ 446 pp. $43.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2009

Darrell E. Allen
Affiliation:
Seattle Pacific University

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References

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3 For the most part, I have followed Japanese custom in placing names of Japanese individuals in proper order, that is, surname first. However, in the case of Japanese authors of English-language works, I have rendered their names in the order they appear on their publications.

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9 Howes writes, “What follows constitutes the most comprehensive research on Uchimura in any language” (12).

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16 See Howes, Japan's Modern Prophet, 284–297.

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20 See, for example, Ohara, Uchimura no shōgai, 278–279. Masaike Megumu actually discusses her case to a greater degree in his book and concludes that while this incident is plausible, Motoko's name does not appear in the Uchimura family registry. The standard listing of Uchimura's wives is Take (divorced, 1884), Kazuko (died of illness, 1891), and Shizuko (lived until 1945).