The Emperors of Modern JapanBen-Ami Shillony BRILL, 2008 - 348 páginas 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), TaishA (Yoshihito), ShAwa (Hirohito), and the present emperor Akihito a " 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, Hirohitoa (TM)s much-debated war responsibility, and the controversy over amending the succession rules. |
Índice
Introduction BenAmi Shillony | 1 |
PART ONE GENERAL THEMES | 13 |
The Strange Survival and Its Modern Signifi cance Imatani Akira | 15 |
Imperial Philosophy and Bushido in Modern Japan Christopher GotoJones | 23 |
State Shinto and Emperor Veneration Shimazono Susumu | 53 |
Ise Jingu and Modern Emperorship Rosemarie Bernard | 79 |
The Emperor and the Left in Interwar Japan Rikki Kersten | 107 |
Conservative Dissatisfaction with the Modern Emperors BenAmi Shillony | 137 |
The Great Emperor Meiji Hara Takeshi | 213 |
An Enigmatic Emperor and his Infl uential Wife Hara Takeshi | 227 |
Empress Nagako and the Family State Sally A Hastings | 241 |
The Hirohito War Guilt C ontroversy in Japan Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi | 271 |
The Emperor in the Constitutional Debate Sigal BenRafael Galanti | 299 |
Akihito and the Problem of Succession Takahashi Hiroshi | 313 |
Contributors | 331 |
Chronology of the Japanese Emperors since the MidNineteenth Century | 335 |
Emperors and Christianity BenAmi Shillony | 163 |
Emperors and Photography Julia Adeney Thomas | 185 |
PART TWO INDIVIDUAL EMPERORS AND EMPRESSES | 211 |
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