Politics of Dialogic Imagination - Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan

Seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo) - including fashion, leisure activities, prints, and theater.

Summary

Seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo) - including fashion, leisure activities, prints, and theater.

Product details

• Authors: Katsuya Hirano, Hirano Katsuya
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9780226060569
• ISBN: 978-0-226-06056-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning; Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.), Asiatische Geschichte, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800