Japan's castles : citadels of modernity in war and peace
著者
書誌事項
Japan's castles : citadels of modernity in war and peace
Cambridge University Press, 2019
- : hbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-350) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
An innovative examination of heritage politics in Japan, showing how castles have been used to re-invent and recapture competing versions of the pre-imperial past and project possibilities for Japan's future. Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg argue that Japan's modern transformations can be traced through its castles. They examine how castle preservation and reconstruction campaigns served as symbolic ways to assert particular views of the past and were crucial in the making of an idealized premodern history. Castles have been used to craft identities, to create and erase memories, and to symbolically join tradition and modernity. Until 1945, they served as physical and symbolic links between the modern military and the nation's premodern martial heritage. After 1945, castles were cleansed of military elements and transformed into public cultural spaces that celebrated both modernity and the pre-imperial past. What were once signs of military power have become symbols of Japan's idealized peaceful past.
目次
- Introduction
- Part I. From Feudalism to Empire: 1. Castles and the transition to the imperial state
- 2. The discovery of castles, 1877-1912
- 3. Castles, civil society, and the paradoxes of 'Taisho militarism'
- 4. Castles in war and peace: celebrating modernity, empire, and war
- Part II. From Feudalism to the Edge of Space: 5. Castles in war and peace II: Kokura, Kanazawa, and the rehabilitation of the nation
- 6. 'Fukko': Hiroshima Castle rises from the ashes
- 7. Escape from the center: castles and the search for local identity
- 8. Japan's new castle builders: recapturing tradition and culture
- Conclusions.
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