Splendid Monarchy

Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan

AvTakashi Fujitani

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

Del 6 i serien Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

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Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultural history to a study of modern Japanese nationalism for the first time.

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Utgivningsdatum:1998-02-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520213715

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T. Fujitani is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

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"A tremendous book. . . . Fujitani brings his skills and insights to bear on a subject crying out to be addressed: namely, the imperial institution and its formative role in the emergence of the modern Japanese nation state."

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LIST OF FIGURES AND MAPS PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IIntroduction: Inventing, Forgetting, Remembering Nationalism and the Emperor in Tokugawa Japan Mnemonic Sites Toward a Historical Ethnography of the Nation-State Visual Domination PART I: NATIONAL MISE-EN-SCENE 2From Court in Motion to Imperial Capitals Tokyo as Temporary Court (anzetisho) Out from behind Jeweled Curtains The Weight of the Imperial Past From Temporary Court to Imperial Capital (teito) National Landscape and National Narrative PART 2: MODERN IMPERIAL PAGEANTRY Overview 3Fabricating Imperial Ceremonies Civilization, Prosperity, and Power Spectacles of Antiques 4The Monarchy in Japan's Modernity The Emperor's Two Bodies The Politics of Gendering and the Gendering of Politics PART 3: THE PEOPLE 5Crowds and Imperial Pageantry Imperial Pageants as National Communions Mobilizing the Masses Popular Folklore and the Folklore of the Regime 6Epilogue: Toward a History of the Present The Monarchy and Tradition The Imperial GazeNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX