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Splendid Monarchy

Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan

Takashi Fujitani

Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultural history to a study of modern Japanese nationalism for the first time.

Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-19

T. Fujitani is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

320 pp.6 x 9Illus: 25 figs., 2 maps

9780520213715$31.95|£27.00Paper

Feb 1998

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