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Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923

Tác giả: Gennifer S. Weisenfeld

Chapter 1: Earthquakes in Japan : a brief prehistory; Chapter 2: The media scale of catastrophe; Chapter 3: Disaster as spectacle; Chapter 4: The sublime nature of ruins; Chapter 5: Reclaiming disaster : altruism and corrosion; Chapter 6: Reconstruction's visual rhetoric; Chapter 7: Remembrance; ...

A new history of Shinto

Tác giả: John Breen, Mark Teeuwen

This accessible guide to the development of Japan's indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths, sites and rituals of kami worship, and their role in Shinto's enduring religious identity.: Offers a unique new approach to Shinto history ...

The artist in Edo : studies in the history of art

Tác giả: Yukio Lippit

A historic first showing outside Japan of Itō Jakuchū's thirty-scroll series Colorful Realm of Living Beings (c. 1757-1766) at the National Gallery of Art was the occasion for this collection of twelve essays that reimagine the concepts of the artist and art-making as they were understood in ...

Configurations of family in contemporary Japan

Tác giả: Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales, Romit Dasgupta

Part 1: Family, companionship; Part 2: Old age, women, storytelling; Part 3: Contemporary parenting; Part 4: Transnational families.

3.11 : disaster and change in Japan

Tác giả: Richard J. Samuels

Chapter 1: The status quo ante and 3.11; Chapter 2: Never waste a good crisis; Chapter 3: Historical and comparative guidance; Chapter 4: Dueling security narratives; Chapter 5: Debating energy policy; Chapter 6: Repurposing local government.