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Title The emperors of modern Japan / edited by Ben-Ami Shillony.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 348 pages) : illustrations.
Series Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section five, Japan, 0921-5239 ; v. 14
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Fünfte Abteilung, Japan ; 14. Bd.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-341) and index.
Contents The strange survival and its modern significance / Imatani Akira -- The way of revering the emperor : imperial philosophy and Bushidō in modern Japan / Christopher Goto-Jones -- State Shinto and emperor veneration / Shimazono Susumu -- Ise Jingū and modern emperorship / Rosemarie Bernard -- The emperor and the left in interwar Japan / Rikki Kersten -- Conservative dissatisfaction with the modern emperors ; Emperors and Christianity / Ben-Ami Shillony -- The unreciprocated gaze : emperors and photography / Julia Adeney Thomas -- The 'great emperor' Meiji / Hara Takeshi -- Taishō : an enigmatic emperor and his influential wife / Hara Takeshi -- Empress Nagako and the family state / Sally A. Hastings -- Axes to grind : the Hirohito war guilt controversy in Japan / Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi -- The emperor in the constitutional debate / Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti -- Akihito and the problem of succession / Takahashi Hiroshi -- Contributors -- Chronology of the Japanese emperors since the mid-nineteenth century.
Summary Offers a study of the Japanese emperors, and how the personalities, and the periods in which they reign(ed) have shaped Japanese monarchy, and our image of it. This title deals with topics such as the ideology behind the institution, the roles of the emperors and their wives, their visual representation, and their links to Christianity.
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Subject Emperors -- Japan.
Japan -- History -- 1868-
HISTORY.
Emperors. (OCoLC)fst00908898
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
Nationalismus.
Kaiser.
Japan.
Kaiser. (DE-588)4114123-4
Nationalismus. (DE-588)4041300-7
Japan. (DE-588)4028495-5
Kejsare.
Historia.
Chronological Term Since 1868
Geschichte 1867-2007
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Shillony, Ben-Ami.
Other Form: Print version: Emperors of modern Japan. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 9789004168220 (DLC) 2008026657 (OCoLC)231588781
ISBN 9789047442257 (electronic bk.)
9047442253 (electronic bk.)
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