The emperors of modern Japan / edited by Ben-Ami Shillony.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shillony, Ben-Ami.

Series:

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Japan ; Funfte Abteilung, 14. Bd.

Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section five, Japan, 0921-5239 ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emperors--Japan.

Emperors.

Japan--History--1868-.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-341) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39930-6

9786612399305

90-474-4225-3

OCLC:

592756372

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004168220.i-348 DOI