Splendid Monarchy: Power & Pageantry in Modern Japan

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-21371-5
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 320 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Twentieth-Century Japan: The E

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fujitani, Takashi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volks- und Völkerkundliche Museen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF FIGURES AND MAPS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I
Introduction: 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

2
From 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

3
Fabricating Imperial Ceremonies

Civilization, Prosperity, and Power

Spectacles of Antiques

4
The Monarchy in Japan's Modernity

The Emperor's Two Bodies

The Politics of Gendering and the Gendering of Politics

PART 3: THE PEOPLE

5
Crowds and Imperial Pageantry

Imperial Pageants as National Communions

Mobilizing the Masses

Popular Folklore and the Folklore of the Regime

6
Epilogue: Toward a History of the Present

The Monarchy and Tradition The Imperial Gaze

NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

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