Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi - Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan

The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi explores how sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi's continued and evolving presence in popular culture in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan changes with the needs of the current era, and in the process expands our understanding of the powerful role that historical narratives play in Japan.

About the author

Susan Westhafer Furukawa is Associate Professor of Japanese at Beloit College.

Summary

The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi explores how sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s continued and evolving presence in popular culture in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan changes with the needs of the current era, and in the process expands our understanding of the powerful role that historical narratives play in Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Westhafer Furukawa
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780674267916
• ISBN: 978-0-674-26791-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, Popular Culture, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Japanese, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers