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The Emperor Hirohito is central to the history of modern Japan, but he is inexplicably missing from the history of Japanese science. This book is an attempt to put the Emperor back into that history by exploring the linkages between science, photography and the Emperor. It examines aspects of Emperor Hirohitos life, especially his scientific career and his imperial tours that are seldom discussed in the literature.
The book incorporates an array of sources including collections of old photographs, Occupation-period archival documents, and Japanese language sources to argue that science and photography helped reinvent the emperor and the nation. Covering a period of over a hundred years, from the Meiji period through to the Emperors death in 1989, this book presents a fresh and compelling account of how visual imagery made the Emperor and the Japanese nation visible.

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 Hirohitoa (TM)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 albumsa (TM) 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 Japana (TM)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 'humana (TM) Emperor and the role that photography played in the process.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415371483
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: mm
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0415371481
  • Publisher Date: 16 Dec 2004
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Series Title: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series
  • Weight: 486 gr

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