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Spectacular Accumulation - Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability (Hardcover)
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Spectacular Accumulation - Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability (Hardcover)
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In Spectacular Accumulation, Morgan Pitelka investigates the
significance of material culture and sociability in late
sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and
afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), the founder of the
Tokugawa shogunate. The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties
between people, things, and politics and offers us insight into the
role of material culture in the shift from medieval to early modern
Japan and in shaping our knowledge of history. This innovative and
eloquent history of a transitional age in Japan reframes the
relationship between culture and politics. Like the collection of
meibutsu, or ""famous objects,"" exchanging hostages, collecting
heads, and commanding massive armies were part of a strategy
Pitelka calls """"spectacular accumulation,"""" which profoundly
affected the creation and character of Japan's early modern polity.
Pitelka uses the notion of spectacular accumulation to
contextualize the acquisition of """"art"""" within a larger
complex of practices aimed at establishing governmental authority,
demonstrating military dominance, reifying hierarchy, and
advertising wealth. He avoids the artificial distinction between
cultural history and political history, arguing that the famed
cultural efflorescence of these years was not subsidiary to the
landscape of political conflict, but constitutive of it. Employing
a wide range of thoroughly researched visual and material evidence,
including letters, diaries, historical chronicles, and art, Pitelka
links the increasing violence of civil and international war to the
increasing importance of samurai social rituals and cultural
practices. Moving from the Ashikaga palaces of Kyoto to the tea
utensil collections of Ieyasu, from the exchange of military
hostages to the gift-giving rituals of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi
Hideyoshi, Spectacular Accumulation traces Japanese military
rulers' power plays over famous artworks as well as objectified
human bodies.
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