| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 356 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-345) and index. |
| Summary |
Sven Saaler examines Japanese public statuary as a central site of historical memory from its beginnings in the Meiji period through the twenty-first century. Saaler shows how the elites of the modern Japanese nation-state went about constructing an iconography of national heroes to serve their agenda of instilling national (and nationalist) thinking into the masses. Based on a wide range of hitherto untapped primary sources, Saaler combines data-driven quantitative analysis and in-depth case studies to identify the categories and historical figures that dominated public space. |
| Contents |
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Roots -- How Not to Be Seen: The Hidden Statuary of Emperor Meiji -- Beginnings: Statues of Imperial Figures -- Patterns of Social Behavior and Participation -- A Quantitative Analysis of Public Statuary in Modern Japan -- A Typology of Public Statuary in Modern Japan -- Mobilizing Japan's "Men in Metal" in the Asia-Pacifi c War -- Colonial Statues and Their Legacy -- The Resurgence of Public Statuary in Postwar Japan -- Public Statuary since the 1960s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public sculpture -- Japan.
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Public sculpture. |
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Japan. |
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Bronze sculpture, Japanese.
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Bronze sculpture, Japanese. |
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Collective memory -- Japan -- History.
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Collective memory. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Saaler, Sven, 1968- Men in metal. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020 9789004414433 (DLC) 2021287239 (OCoLC)1108557144 |
| ISBN |
9789004441514 (electronic book) |
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9004441514 (electronic book) |
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9789004414433 |
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9004414436 |
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