Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA East Asian Series) - Image 1

£147.20

Routledge Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA East Asian Series)

Name: Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA East Asian Series)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 140.4 GBP
Availability: InStock

Middle East

Price History & Forecast

Last 26 days • 26 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 26 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £147 (16 days, 61.5%)

Price range: £140 - £147

Price levels: 2 different prices over 26 days

Description

Product Description Sixty years on from the end of the Pacific War, Japan on Display examines representations of the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito (1852-1912) and his grandson the Showa emperor, Hirohito who was regarded as a symbol of the nation, in both war and peacetime. Much of this representation was aided by the phenomenon of photography. The introduction and development of photography in the nineteenth century coincided with the need to make Hirohito’s grandfather, the young Meiji Emperor, more visible. Photo books and albums became a popular format for presenting seemingly objective images of the monarch, reminding the Japanese of their proximity to the Emperor, and the imperial family. In the twentieth century, these 'national albums’ provided a visual record of wars fought in the name of the Emperor, while also documenting the reconstruction of Tokyo, scientific expeditions, and imperial tours. Drawing on archival documents, photographs, and sources in both Japanese and English, this book throws new light on the history of twentieth-century Japan and the central role of Hirohito. With Japan’s defeat in the Pacific War, the Emperor was transformed from wartime leader to peace-loving scientist. Japan on Display seeks to understand this reinvention of a more 'human’ Emperor and the role that photography played in the process. About the Author Morris Low is professor of East Asian sciences and technology at Johns Hopkins University. His previous publications include Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan (1999); Science, Technology and R&D in Japan (2001); Asian Masculinities (2003); Building a Modern Japan (2005); and Science and the Building of a New Japan (2005).

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0415371481
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Middle East
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 04 April 2006
Listed Since: 26 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA East Asian Series)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives

The Rhetoric of Emperor Hirohito: Continuity and Rupture in Japan’s Dramas of Modernity

Routledge Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan

Routledge Commemorating Meiji: History, Politics and History

Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism: 2031 (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War: 28 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, Series Number 28)

British Royal and Japanese Imperial Relations, 1868-2018: 150 Years of Association, Engagement and Celebration

The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia: Deimperialization, Postwar Legitimation and Imperial Afterlife (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan (ASAA Women in Asia Series)

Routledge Making Japanese Heritage - Japan Anthropology Series

Showa Japan: Political, Economic and Social History 1926-1989 (Routledge Library of Modern Japan)

Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series)

Routledge - Alternative Narratives in Modern Japanese History

Routledge Japan in Australia: Culture, Context and Connection

The Image of Japan: From Feudal Isolation to World Power 1850-1905 (Routledge Library Editions: Japan)

The Japanese Monarchy, 1931-91: Ambassador Grew and the Making of the "Symbol Emperor System" (Japan in the Modern World (Hardcover))

Routledge Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History Book

Japan 1900. A Portrait in Color

Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series)

Empire and Constitution in Modern Japan: Why Could War with China Not Be Prevented? (SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan)

Great Power Strategy in Asia: Empire, Culture and Trade, 1905-2005

The Turning Point in US-Japan Relations: Hanihara’s Cherry Blossom Diplomacy in 1920-1930

The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War

Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-U.S. Relations During World War I (International History,)