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Najita T. Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudo Merchant Academy of Osaka. Among numerous awards and honors, in 1993 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. I can still hear the “whirrrr-rrrrring-bzzzzzzz” of this splendid month-long experiment.

Tetsuo Najita was a great teacher and reflective of a line he often quoted from one of his central thinker’s Ogyu Sorai’s depiction of the ancient kings: a man who loved 茗荷.

He then makes a startling promise to Abram. Yes, without question, ideological apparatuses produced by and integral to state formation are crucial to our consideration of the meanings of “modernity” or of “Japan”; he details these with elegant care and insight. Obviously, such thinking and such historical methodology has significant implication in any time or place.

Susan Burns

University of Chicago

Professor Najita was born on the Big Island of Hawaii, the son of a Japanese-American family.

Education

Bachelor, Grinnell College, 1958. Najita chose to return to the Big Island. Terah, his father, was 130 years old at his birth. He attended Grinnell College between 1954 and 1958 on a scholarship arranged by one of his teachers in Hawaii; in 1998 the college named him a distinguished alumnus.

Background

Najita, Tetsuo was born on March 30, 1936 in Honokaa, Hawaii, United States. The Eternal promises, several times, to bless him and his descendants. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1965.

Doctor of Laws, Grinnell College, 1989.

Career

Assistant professor Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1964-1966, Washington University, St.

Louis, 1966-1968.

Professor Tetsuo Najita is pre-deceased by his daughter and survived by his wife and best friend, Elinor, their son, Kiyoshi (Yosh), and two grandsons, all of whom he was tremendously proud.

— Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut

Remembering Tetsuo Najita: The View from Chicago

By Prasenjit Duara, Duke University

I came to know Tets Najita as a mentor and senior East Asianist colleague in the Department of History at the University of Chicago.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; 1987. One of the last talks I heard him give was entitled “Jibunshi and Nihonshi,” which might be translated as “My history and Japanese history.” Jibunshi refers to a form of history writing, popularized in the 1980s, that encouraged ordinary people to write down their histories and those of their families.

Yet, he also insisted upon the historical integration of ideas, no matter how complex, into the fabric of practice, experience, and the everyday life of everyday people.

Visions of Virtue is a magisterial demonstration of the power of ideas as worked out in private merchant academies; Ordinary Economies extends these ideas further, as they work their way into smaller communities, towns, and villages, and eventually come to form the background to globally significant modern Japanese economic structures.

This "father of the faithful" is blessed to meet with a Priest of the Most High God named Melchizedek, who is actually a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ.

After visiting Abraham two angels save Lot and family before the destruction of Sodom. He became the chair of the department soon after I joined it and guided me carefully through the rocky shoals of scholarly politics towards professorship.

Known widely as “Tets,” Najita was a pre-eminent scholar of early modern and modern Japanese intellectual history, political economy, and theory. Maruyame Masao lecturer University California, Berkeley, 2000. Professor Najita was fallible, and he had flavors and tastes he preferred, not all of which were to everyone’s liking but were his own.