LEADER 03931nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910824429103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-35887-1 010 $a1-4237-6664-4 010 $a9786612358876 010 $a0-520-93229-3 010 $a1-59875-945-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520932296 035 $a(CKB)1000000000246829 035 $a(EBL)255698 035 $a(OCoLC)475970644 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000142517 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11144442 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142517 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10096675 035 $a(PQKB)10000634 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055980 035 $a(OCoLC)647484268 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC255698 035 $a(OCoLC)66145273 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30408 035 $a(DE-B1597)518914 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520932296 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL255698 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10120301 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235887 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000246829 100 $a20060222d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEarthquake nation $ethe cultural politics of Japanese seismicity, 1868-1930 /$fGregory Clancey 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. ;$aLondon $cUniversity of California Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (346 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-24607-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tIntroduction --$t1. Strong Nation, Stone Nation --$t2. Earthquakes --$t3. The Seismologists --$t4. The National Essence --$t5. A Great Earthquake --$t6. Japan as Earthquake Nation --$t7. Japanese Architecture after N?bi --$t8. The Great Kant? Earthquake and the Submergence of the Earthquake Nation --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aAccelerating seismic activity in late Meiji Japan climaxed in the legendary Great Nobi Earthquake of 1891, which rocked the main island from Tokyo to Osaka, killing thousands. Ironically, the earthquake brought down many "modern" structures built on the advice of foreign architects and engineers, while leaving certain traditional, wooden ones standing. This book, the first English-language history of modern Japanese earthquakes and earthquake science, considers the cultural and political ramifications of this and other catastrophic events on Japan's relationship with the West, with modern science, and with itself. Gregory Clancey argues that seismicity was both the Achilles' heel of Japan's nation-building project-revealing the state's western-style infrastructure to be surprisingly fragile-and a new focus for nativizing discourses which credited traditional Japanese architecture with unique abilities to ride out seismic waves. Tracing his subject from the Meiji Restoration to the Great Kant Earthquake of 1923 (which destroyed Tokyo), Clancey shows earthquakes to have been a continual though mercurial agent in Japan's self-fashioning; a catastrophic undercurrent to Japanese modernity. This innovative and absorbing study not only moves earthquakes nearer the center of modern Japan change-both materially and symbolically-but shows how fundamentally Japan shaped the global art, science, and culture of natural disaster. 606 $aEarthquakes$zJapan$xPsychological aspects 606 $aEarthquakes$xSocial aspects$zJapan 607 $aJapan$xCivilization$y1868-1945 615 0$aEarthquakes$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aEarthquakes$xSocial aspects 676 $a624.1762095209034 700 $aClancey$b Gregory K$01645642 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824429103321 996 $aEarthquake nation$93992222 997 $aUNINA