
Roman KodetUniversity of West Bohemia · Department of Historical Sciences
Roman Kodet
Ph.D.
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Professional historian and Japan Studies specialist working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. He is a specialist in early modern Japanese history and the Meiji Period. During his career, he specialized in the history of the samurai class, Japan's relations with the Western world, and cultural history. In 2018, he established a Center of Japanese Studies, through which he cooperates with institutions in Japan and worldwide.
Education
September 2007 - February 2012
September 2001 - February 2007
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Publications (17)
After the opening of the Japanese ports in the 50s of the 19th century, many foreigners started to visit the country. Due to their interest in the Far East, Britons were among the most numerous, and accordingly, they left many accounts of their experiences in Japan. Thanks to the popularity of travelogues in the 19th century and the effort to recor...
Hanaoka Seishu is a pivotal figure in the history of pre-modern Japanese medicine, renowned for his groundbreaking integration of Western and Eastern medical practices. His most notable contribution was the development of surgical techniques under general anesthesia, culminating in the world's first mastectomy performed under general anesthesia in...
The Meiji Restoration was arguably the most important event in Japanese history. After almost 700 years of warrior rule in Japan was broken in a few tumultuous years, and the country set out into the modern era of its history. This event was, however, a complex and complicated process. Since the beginning of the 17th century, Japan was governed by...
This brief study compares the blade damage of a hardened bronze sword in fencing with a #14260 spring steel sword. To obtain the most convincing results, slashes and covers were made with as much force as possible, intentionally more than is common in fencing. Previously unused blades of a copy of the medieval one-and-a-half-handed "bastard" sword...
Until the 17th century, Japan was almost exclusively influenced by the Chinese medical tradition. A brief experience with European medicine was interrupted in the mid-17th century by edicts that isolated the country from the outside world. However, thanks to the Dutch presence in Nagasaki, some Japanese intellectuals maintained contact with
Western...
Until the 17th century, Japan was almost exclusively influenced by the Chinese medical tradition. A brief experience with European medicine was interrupted in the mid-17th century by edicts that isolated the country from outside world. However, thanks to the Dutch presence in Nagasaki, some Japanese intellectuals maintained contact with Western phy...
For many centuries, Japan had little experience of coexistence with foreign nationals or major national minorities. In the 16th century, however, it established fairly intensive contacts with some European states, which led to relatively strong links with international trade and the mass spread of Christianity within the country. However, it was th...
The Shimonoseki Incident was a major diplomatic conflict between the Great Powers and Japan. It was initiated by the Chōshū Domain, which tried to block the Shimonoseki Straits for the foreign shipping after an Imperial edict to expel the "barbarians" was issued. Chōshū batteries attacked three foreign vessels in June and July 1863. The reaction of...
The Japanese historiography had an early beginning. Its tradition started with the
chronicles Kojiki and Nihongi compiled for the Imperial Court in Kyoto in the 8th century. There were created a lot of other historical works – official histories, biographies, diaries, etc. – during the Heian Period. However, with the rise of the samurai class and i...
Modern scholars consider Japan as a separate civilization different from its continental counterparts. This fact is contributed mostly to the special conditions in which its society developed. The geographical and natural conditions of the Japanese Islands influenced the shape of its pre-modern society, its economy, and its political development. T...
The conclusion of unequal treaties with Western Powers caused unrest in Japan. Adherents of the Sonno Joi movement demanded the expulsion of the foreigners and the return of political power to the hands of the Emperor. They, therefore, initiated a series of attacks against influential figures of the ruling regime and against foreign residents in Ja...
The Japanese warriors - the samurai became one of the
symbols of the Land of the Rising Sun. They formed its
history, society, and culture for more than 800 years.
Thanks to that, they acquired almost a mythological status.
In the modern period, they appear in numerous movies,
books, games, and comics, which often help to spread the
mythos of samur...
The Samurai were a military caste that ruled Japan in the years 1192–1868 and considerably shaped its history. The leaders of the samurai noble families led furious wars against each other since the second half of the 12th century. Japan, therefore, experienced periodical eruptions of warfare followed by periods of peace and relative stability. How...
The relations between Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire underwent many changes and crises in 1896–1914. Their development considerably influenced the international position of the Habsburg Monarchy. This thesis's main goal was to analyze the particular stages of this process to determine how the mutual relations influenced the policy of both s...
After the end of the Bosnian annexation crisis, Austria-Hungary was able to improve its position in the Ottoman Empire. This was enabled not only due to successful negotiations with the Porte, which enabled the solution to the crisis, but also by the cautious policy of Vienna during the coup on 13th April in Istanbul. During the second half of 1909...
During their history, the Ottoman Empire and Japan had almost no mutual contact and were hardly aware of each other. This situation changed at the end of the 19th century when the Ottomans were interested in Japanese modernization according to the western model in order to apply the Japanese model on their own crumbling empire. On the other hand, s...