| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 348 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section five, Japan,
0921-5239 ; v. 14
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Handbuch der Orientalistik. Fünfte Abteilung, Japan ; 14. Bd.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-341) and index. |
| Contents |
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 ; 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 -- Chronology of the Japanese emperors since the mid-nineteenth century. |
| Summary |
Offers a study of the Japanese emperors, and how the personalities, and the periods in which they reign(ed) have shaped Japanese monarchy, and our image of it. This title deals with topics such as the ideology behind the institution, the roles of the emperors and their wives, their visual representation, and their links to Christianity. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Emperors -- Japan.
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Emperors. |
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Japan. |
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Japan -- History -- 1868-
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1868- |
| Subject |
Japan -- History -- 1868- |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1868 |
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Geschichte 1867-2007 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Shillony, Ben-Ami.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Emperors of modern Japan. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 9789004168220 (DLC) 2008026657 (OCoLC)231588781 |
| ISBN |
9789047442257 (electronic book) |
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9047442253 (electronic book) |
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9789004168220 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004168222 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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