The emperors of modern Japan / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section five, Japan, v. 14 |
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| 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. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Ben-Ami Shillony
- Introduction / Ben-Ami Shillony
- 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 / Ben-Ami Shillony
- 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 / Ben-Ami Shillony
- Chronology of the japanese emperors since the mid-nineteenth century / Ben-Ami Shillony
- Recommended books in english / Ben-Ami Shillony
- Index / Ben-Ami Shillony.