The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi : : Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan / / Susan Westhafer Furukawa.
"By analyzing representations of the famous sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi in historical fiction, this book explores how and why Hideyoshi has had a continued and ever-changing presence in Japanese popular culture. These multiple fictionalized histories reveal a Hideyoshi w...
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| Superior document: | Harvard East Asian Monograph Series ; Volume 447 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
Volume 447. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Taiko¯ki: a fictional hero emerges
- Hideyoshi's war: Yoshikawa Eiji's Shinsho Taiko¯ki and Hideyoshi as World War II hero
- The salaryman samurai: Hideyoshi as business model
- The women of the realm: Hideyoshi as social criticism
- Things best left unseen: the problem of Hideyoshi in the twenty-first century
- Epilogue: Whither Hideyoshi?.