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

"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."

• 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