Alison J. Miller is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of the South (Sewanee). Her scholarship focuses on images of women across visual media in modern Japan. She is co-editor of The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity (2021) and Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia (2024).

• Introduction: The Visual MonarchyPart IChapter One: The Modern Imperial Family: Institutions and Images Chapter Two: Mimesis and Multiples: Empress Shōken and the Power of Print in Establishing the Public Empress PersonaChapter Three: The Optics of Modernity: Empress Teimei, Photography, Mass Media, and Gender in the Imperial LikenessPart IIChapter Four: Toward the Sacred and the Standard: Formality, Lineage, and Decorum in the Modern Japanese Imperial PortraitChapter Five: Fashion, National Identity, and the Community of Royals: Global Monarchical Visual Culture Between the Meiji and Taishō PeriodsChapter Six: Mourning and Memory: The Visual Politics of Imperial Funerals and Memorial SitesConclusionAppendixBibliography

Alison J. Miller is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of the South (Sewanee). Her scholarship focuses on images of women across visual media in modern Japan. She is co-editor of The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity (2021) and Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia (2024).

• Introduction: The Visual MonarchyPart IChapter One: The Modern Imperial Family: Institutions and Images Chapter Two: Mimesis and Multiples: Empress Shōken and the Power of Print in Establishing the Public Empress PersonaChapter Three: The Optics of Modernity: Empress Teimei, Photography, Mass Media, and Gender in the Imperial LikenessPart IIChapter Four: Toward the Sacred and the Standard: Formality, Lineage, and Decorum in the Modern Japanese Imperial PortraitChapter Five: Fashion, National Identity, and the Community of Royals: Global Monarchical Visual Culture Between the Meiji and Taishō PeriodsChapter Six: Mourning and Memory: The Visual Politics of Imperial Funerals and Memorial SitesConclusionAppendixBibliography

Alison J. Miller is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of the South (Sewanee). Her scholarship focuses on images of women across visual media in modern Japan. She is co-editor of The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity (2021) and Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia (2024).

• Introduction: The Visual MonarchyPart IChapter One: The Modern Imperial Family: Institutions and Images Chapter Two: Mimesis and Multiples: Empress Shōken and the Power of Print in Establishing the Public Empress PersonaChapter Three: The Optics of Modernity: Empress Teimei, Photography, Mass Media, and Gender in the Imperial LikenessPart IIChapter Four: Toward the Sacred and the Standard: Formality, Lineage, and Decorum in the Modern Japanese Imperial PortraitChapter Five: Fashion, National Identity, and the Community of Royals: Global Monarchical Visual Culture Between the Meiji and Taishō PeriodsChapter Six: Mourning and Memory: The Visual Politics of Imperial Funerals and Memorial SitesConclusionAppendixBibliography