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Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
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...
Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge