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Modern Japan Through Its Weddings - Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal (Hardcover)
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Modern Japan Through Its Weddings - Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal (Hardcover)
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Japanese weddings have become thoroughly commercial affairs, with
the vast majority now conducted at specialized establishments that
offer, at great cost, lavish services for the Shinto ceremony and
the ensuring reception. The postwar expansion of the industry
providing these services is explained in part by its aggressive
promotion, by its promise of 'a story ceremony of love ... wrapped
in the warm blessings of loved ones, in harmony and splendor'. This
book focuses on Japanese weddings as a window on contemporary
values, analyzing the relation between the commercialization of
these services and their symbolic content. Weddings mark the
attainment of fully adult status in Japan; the commercial industry
celebrates this passage with idealized images of the marital state,
images whose significance runs deep. To say what it means to be a
model husband and wife engages more general ideas about relations
between the sexes. To say what it means to be fully adult also of
society, thereby touching on fundamental notions about society
itself and the individual's place within it. The book begins with
historical background on the Japanese wedding and the development
of its modern form. We then follow the wedding couple and the
events involving them and their parents through their engagement
and marriage ceremony. The Japanese continue to distinguish between
two types of marriage, the arranged and the love match, and the
author examines differences in the two forms. As part of his
research, the author worked for ten months in a commercial wedding
hall, and he gives a backstage look at the roles played by various
personnel in the wedding industry. The author analyzes the symbolic
content of the wedding as portraying the basic Japanese concepts of
gender, person, and society, and finally summarizes the effects of
the wedding's commercialization.
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