The emperors of modern Japan [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ben-Ami Shillony

• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Disciplina: 952.03092/2
• Soggetto topico: Emperors - Japan
• Soggetto geografico: Japan History 1868-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ShillonyBen-Ami
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-341) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 – both as personalities, and as a constantly developing institution. It becomes clear that both the personalities, and the periods in which they reign(ed) have shaped Japanese monarchy, and our image of it. The essays thoroughly deal with topics such as the ideology behind the institution, the roles of the emperors and their wives, their visual representation, their links to Christianity, the antagonism they called forth in right-wing circles, Hirohito’s much-debated war responsibility, and the controversy over amending the succession rules.
• Titolo autorizzato: The emperors of modern Japan
• ISBN: 1-282-39930-6; 9786612399305; 90-474-4225-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455282603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Handbuch der Orientalistik. : Fünfte Abteilung, . -Japan ; ; 14. Bd.