An innovative examination of heritage politics in Japan, showing
how castles have been used to re-invent and recapture competing
versions of the pre-imperial past and project possibilities for
Japan's future. Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg argue that Japan's
modern transformations can be traced through its castles. They
examine how castle preservation and reconstruction campaigns served
as symbolic ways to assert particular views of the past and were
crucial in the making of an idealized premodern history. Castles
have been used to craft identities, to create and erase memories,
and to symbolically join tradition and modernity. Until 1945, they
served as physical and symbolic links between the modern military
and the nation's premodern martial heritage. After 1945, castles
were cleansed of military elements and transformed into public
cultural spaces that celebrated both modernity and the pre-imperial
past. What were once signs of military power have become symbols of
Japan's idealized peaceful past.
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