Denis Gainty

Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how the movement to define and popularise Japanese martial arts in the late Meiji period brought Japanese bodies, Japanese nationalisms, and the Japanese state into sustained contact and dynamic engagement with one another. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, Denis Gainty shows how the metaphor of a national body and the cultural and historical meanings of martial arts were celebrated and appropriated by modern Japanese at all levels of society, allowing them to participate powerfully in shaping the modern Japanese nation and state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781138121010
• ISBN-10: 1138121010
• Artikelnr.: 43335619

Autorenporträt

Denis Gainty is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Georgia State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Context for the Butokukai: The Development of
Martial Arts and the Samurai as Cultural Forms in Tokugawa and Early Meiji
3. The Dainippon Butokukai: Its Founding, Growth, and Dissolution 4.
Capture the Flag: Spectacle and Rhetoric 5. Talking Teaching: The Rhetoric
of Martial Arts in Physical Education 6. Giving the State its Legs:
Rethinking Agency and the Body through the Butokukai 7. Conclusion 8.
Index, Cherie Braden