Splendid Monarchy : Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan

Takashi Fujitani
University of California Press
 9780520213715
0-520-21371-8

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,.

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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.