Sacred space in the modern city [electronic resource] : the fractured pasts of Meiji shrine, 1912-1958 / by Yoshiko Imaizumi.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Imaizumi, Yoshiko.

Series:

• Brill's Japanese Studies Library 43.
• Brill's Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; v. 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Architecture and society--Japan--Tokyo.
• Nationalism and architecture--Japan--Tokyo.
• Nationalism--Religious aspects--Shinto.
• Tokyo (Japan)--Buildings, structures, etc.
• Meiji Jingū (Tokyo, Japan).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sacred Space in the Modern City offers strikingly new and original perspectives on a number of controversial issues and important questions concerning Japanese pre- and post-war ideology and identity. Meiji shrine is not just ‘a’ shrine; it is ‘the’ shrine of twentieth-century Japan. This book is also noteworthy on account of its use of previously untouched archival materials as well as for its broad range of theoretical approaches applied within a multidisciplinary context. The author uses Meiji shrine as a lens with which to investigate the nature of the society that created, experienced and reproduced this site. This long-overdue study will be widely welcomed by researchers interested in Shinto and Meiji Japan, as well as the wider readership wishing to access the social history of Taisho and early Showa Japan.

Contents:

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• 1 The Creation of Meiji Shrine 1912–1920
• 2 A Mnemonic Space: The Construction of the Memorial Art Gallery 1912–1936
• 3 Shrine Approaches: To the 1923 Earthquake and beyond
• 4 Imagined Discipline: The 1940 Meiji Shrine Sports Meet
• 5 The Re-Creation of Meiji Shrine 1945–1958
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-25418-8

OCLC:

854521058

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004254183 DOI