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

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section five, Japan, v. 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Shillony, Ben-Ami.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Japan ; 14. Bd.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; The strange survival and its modern significance /; The way of revering the emperor: Imperial philosophy and Bushidō in modern Japan /; State Shinto and Emperor Veneration /; Ise Jingū and modern emperorship /; The Emperor and the left in interwar Japan /; Conservative dissatisfaction with the modern emperors /; Emperors and christianity /; The unreciprocated gaze: Emperors and photography /; The ‘Great Emperor’ Meiji /; Taishō: An enigmatic emperor and his influential wife /; Empress Nagako and the family state /; Axes to grind: The Hirohito war guilt controversy in Japan /; The emperor in the constitutional debate /; Akihito and the problem of succession /; Contributors /; Chronology of the japanese emperors since the mid-nineteenth century /; Recommended books in english /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-341) and index.
• ISBN: 1282399306; 9786612399305; 9047442253
• ISSN: 0921-5239
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Ben-Ami Shillony.

The Japanese emperors, a peculiar and unique phenomenon in modern times, are the subject of this important handbook edited by Ben-Ami Shillony. An international team of leading scholars looks at these emperors - Meiji (Mutsuhito), Taishō (Yoshihito), Shōwa (Hirohito), and the present emperor Akihito – both as personalities, and as a constantly developing institution. It becomes clear that both the personalities, and the periods in which they reign(ed) have shaped Japanese monarchy, and our image of it. The essays thoroughly deal with topics such as the ideology behind the institution, the roles of the emperors and their wives, their visual representation, their links to Christianity, the antagonism they called forth in right-wing circles, Hirohito’s much-debated war responsibility, and the controversy over amending the succession rules.