Splendid monarchy : power and pageantry in modern Japan
Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings, this text examines what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory and modernity. This study of Japanese nationalism focuses on the Meiji Period (1868-1912).
Print Book, English, 1998, ©1996
University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1998, ©1996
History
xiv, 305 p. : il., fot. byn ; 24 cm.
9780520213715, 0520213718
760596178
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