Splendid Monarchy

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Splendid Monarchy

Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan

Asian history

Author: Takashi Fujitani

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Collection: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

Language: English

Published by: University of California Press

Published on: 1st October 1996

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9780520920989


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.

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 (1868-19

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