1st Edition
Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868–1952
Introduction: The Visual Monarchy
Part I
Chapter One: The Modern Imperial Family: Institutions and Images
Chapter Two: Mimesis and Multiples: Empress Shōken and the Power of Print in Establishing the Public Empress Persona
Chapter Three: The Optics of Modernity: Empress Teimei, Photography, Mass Media, and Gender in the Imperial Likeness
Part II
Chapter Four: Toward the Sacred and the Standard: Formality, Lineage, and Decorum in the Modern Japanese Imperial Portrait
Chapter Five: Fashion, National Identity, and the Community of Royals: Global Monarchical Visual Culture Between the Meiji and Taishō Periods
Chapter Six: Mourning and Memory: The Visual Politics of Imperial Funerals and Memorial Sites
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Biography
Alison J. Miller is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of the South (Sewanee). Her scholarship focuses on images of women across visual media in modern Japan. She is co-editor of The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity (2021) and Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia (2024).
