Splendid Monarchy

LIST OF FIGURES AND MAPS
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I
Introduction: Inventing, Forgetting, Remembering
Nationalism and the Emperor in Tokugawa Japan
Mnemonic Sites
Toward a Historical Ethnography of the Nation-State
Visual Domination

PART I: NATIONAL MISE-EN-SCENE
2
From Court in Motion to Imperial Capitals
Tokyo as Temporary Court (anzetisho)
Out from behind Jeweled Curtains
The Weight of the Imperial Past
From Temporary Court to Imperial Capital (teito)
National Landscape and National Narrative

PART 2: MODERN IMPERIAL PAGEANTRY
Overview
3
Fabricating Imperial Ceremonies
Civilization, Prosperity, and Power
Spectacles of Antiques
4
The Monarchy in Japan's Modernity
The Emperor's Two Bodies
The Politics of Gendering and the Gendering of Politics

PART 3: THE PEOPLE
5
Crowds and Imperial Pageantry
Imperial Pageants as National Communions
Mobilizing the Masses
Popular Folklore and the Folklore of the Regime
6
Epilogue: Toward a History of the Present
The Monarchy and Tradition The Imperial Gaze

NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX