The emperors of modern Japan

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.

Record details

ISBN: 6612399309
ISBN: 9786612399305
ISBN: 9781282399303
ISBN: 1282399306
ISBN: 9047442253
ISBN: 9789047442257
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 348 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-341) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.