Takashi Fujitani
Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan.
University of California Press, 1998. Twentieth-Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power, 6. First paperback printing. 0520213718 xiv/305 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright.
"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."