cam a22 2 4500 530092751 CHVBK 20201023213357.0 181025s2015 enk||||| |||| 00 |eng d 1-138-12101-0 978-1-138-12101-0 (RERO)R008835856 (VAUD)991021132281302852 (EXLNZ-41BCULAUSA_NETWORK)991023454511102851 GBVCP ger OCLCQ RERO geullo rakwb s1or rero 952 BCUDlh CLASBCUD Gainty Denis (IDREF)168939681 cre Martial arts and the body politic in Meiji Japan Denis Gainty London u.a. Routledge London u.a. Routledge 2015 XVI, 186 p. 24 cm Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 81 In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the Butokukai's efforts to define and popularise Japanese martial arts became an important medium through which the bodies of millions of Japanese citizens would experience, draw on, and even shape the Japanese nation and state. This book shows how the notion and practice of Japanese martial arts in the late Meiji period brought Japanese bodies, Japanese nationalisms, and the Japanese state into sustained contact and dynamic engagement with one another. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, Denis Gainty shows how the metaphor of a national body and the cultural and historical meanings of martial arts were celebrated and appropriated by modern Japanese at all levels of society, allowing them to participate powerfully in shaping the modern Japanese nation and state. While recent works have cast modern Japanese and their bodies as subject to state domination and elite control, this book argues that having a body - being a body, and through that body experiencing and shaping social, political, and even cosmic realities - is an important and underexamined aspect of the late Meiji period. Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan is an important contribution to debates in Japanese and Asian social sciences, theories of the body and its role in modern historiography, and related questions of power and agency by suggesting a new and dramatic role for human bodies in the shaping of modern states and societies. As such, it will be valuable to students and scholars of Japanese studies, Japanese history, modern nations and nationalisms, and sport and leisure studies, as well as those interested in the body more broadly Arts martiaux Japon Histoire ram Corps humain Aspect social Japon ram Corps humain Aspect politique Japon ram Japon 1868-1912 (Ère Meiji) ram Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 81 (RERO)R00302310 BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 Metadata rights reserved vaud s1ht rnv RERO RE61046 RE61046 RE610460011 312.1 GAI BFLA 285273 VAUD bcud bcud USA 44742 952 810010016 RERO 100 1- Gainty Denis (IDREF)168939681 cre RERO 490 1- Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 81 RERO 830 -- Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 81 (RERO)R00302310 VAUD 100 1- Gainty Denis aut VAUD 490 1- Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 81 VAUD 830 -- Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 81 SWISSBIB 339952334