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Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan (Hardcover, New)
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Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
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In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association
(Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival
(butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked
the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the Butokukai's
efforts to define and popularise Japanese martial arts became an
important medium through which the bodies of millions of Japanese
citizens would experience, draw on, and even shape the Japanese
nation and state. This book shows how the notion and practice of
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. While
recent works have cast modern Japanese and their bodies as subject
to state domination and elite control, this book argues that having
a body - being a body, and through that body experiencing and
shaping social, political, and even cosmic realities - is an
important and underexamined aspect of the late Meiji period.
Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan is an important
contribution to debates in Japanese and Asian social sciences,
theories of the body and its role in modern historiography, and
related questions of power and agency by suggesting a new and
dramatic role for human bodies in the shaping of modern states and
societies. As such, it will be valuable to students and scholars of
Japanese studies, Japanese history, modern nations and
nationalisms, and sport and leisure studies, as well as those
interested in the body more broadly.
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