num_pages: 322
description: 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 (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultural history to a study of modern Japanese nationalism for the first time.
language: English
title: Splendid Monarchy (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power)
titlecomplete: Splendid Monarchy (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power) (Volume 6)
genres: Japanese History, 19th Century, Japan, History, Academic, Nonfiction, School
ratings_count: 67
series: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
publisher: University of California Press