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Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan by Takashi Fujitani

Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan

Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power #6

Takashi Fujitani

320 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period ...

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