Splendid Monarchy

Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan

By Takashi Fujitani

1996

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Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

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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.

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Takashi Fujitani

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