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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42922671 Title: Splendid monarchy : power and pageantry in modern Japan Author: Takashi Fujitani Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996. ISBN/ISSN: 9780520920989 0520920988 0585104387 9780585104386 9780520202375 0520202376 OCLC:42922671

  
  

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Splendid monarchy : power and pageantry in modern Japan

Author:	Takashi Fujitani
Publisher:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Series:	Twentieth-century Japan, 6.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	In 1993, Masako Owada captured the world's attention when she agreed to marry Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan. She was widely portrayed as a progressive, Westernized woman about to enter one of the last bastions of traditional Japanese sexism. Crown Prince Naruhito's world was known to be steeped in ancient tradition, and the strictures placed on her were seen as tragic vestiges of the patriarchal past. But in this dramatic departure from accepted assumptions about Japan, T. Fujitani argues that just over a century ago, there was no such thing as an imperial family, imperial family, imperial wedding ceremonies were unheard of, and the image of the emperor as patriarch did not exist. Demonstrating how the trappings of the emperor were imported from nineteenth-century Western courts, he concludes that the Japanese monarchy as we know it is actually an invention of modern times. Fujitani focuses on public ceremonials and the construction of ritual spaces in the Meiji Period (1868-1912). His work is based on extensive research in Japanese archives and libraries, including the archives of the Imperial Household Agency. To explore the modern transformations of what is often portrayed as the longest continuously reigning monarchy in the world, he focuses on the monarchy's location within a modern regime of power, city planning, the media, and the gendering of politics. Throughout, he presents rare photographs and woodblock prints to trace the image of the emperor from a mysterious figure secluded inside a palanquin to a grand public personage riding in an open carriage in Western military regalia.  Read more...
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Subjects	Japan -- History -- 1868- Emperor worship -- Japan. Monarchy -- Japan. View all subjects
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