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Author Keaveney, Christopher T., author.

Title Contesting the myths of samurai baseball : cultural representations of Japan's national pastime / Christopher T. Keaveney.

Publication Info. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-222) and index (pages 223-230).
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction : myths of Japanese baseball and the game's cultural representations -- Samurai baseball : the popular press and the making of a national pastime in Meiji and Taishō Japan -- Portrait of the artist as Yakyū Seinen : Masaoka Shiki and the poetry of baseball -- Coming home : portraying Japanese baseball on the silver screen -- The one constant : the literature of nostalgia and catharsis in postwar Japanese baseball fiction -- Game on : encounters with the magic of baseball in Japanese postmodern fiction -- Happy medium : re-envisioning the hero in Japanese baseball manga -- Epilogue : the enduring cultural appeal of baseball in Japan -- Appendix : glossary of selected terms in Japanese.
Summary Almost right from the introduction of baseball to Japan the sport was regarded as qualitatively different from the original American model. This vision of Japanese baseball associates the sport with steadfast devotion (magokoro) and the values of the samurai class in the code of Bushidō, in which greatness is achieved through hard work under the tutelage of a selfless master. In Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball Keaveney analyzes the persistent appeal of such mythologizing, arguing that the sport has been serving as a repository for traditional values, to which the Japanese have returne.
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Subject Baseball -- Japan -- History.
Baseball.
Japan.
History.
Baseball -- Social aspects -- Japan.
Baseball -- Social aspects.
Baseball films -- Japan -- History and criticism.
Baseball films.
Baseball in literature -- History and criticism.
Baseball in literature.
Bushido -- Japan.
Bushido.
Popular culture -- Study and teaching -- Japan.
Popular culture -- Study and teaching.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Keaveney, Christopher T. Contesting the myths of samurai baseball. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2018] 9789888455829 (OCoLC)1031375300
ISBN 9789888455355 (electronic book)
9888455354 (electronic book)
9789888455829
9888455826