Splendid Monarchy
Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:9th Mar '98
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
"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." * Monumenta Nipponica *
ISBN: 9780520213715
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: 408g
320 pages