208 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
208 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Context for the Butokukai: The Development of Martial Arts and the Samurai as Cultural Forms in Tokugawa and Early Meiji 3. The Dainippon Butokukai: Its Founding, Growth, and Dissolution 4. Capture the Flag: Spectacle and Rhetoric 5. Talking Teaching: The Rhetoric of Martial Arts in Physical Education 6. Giving the State its Legs: Rethinking Agency and the Body through the Butokukai 7. Conclusion 8. Index, Cherie Braden
Biography
Denis Gainty is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Georgia State University, USA.
"incisive and novel contribution to the field of Japanese studies" - Robin Kietlinkski, City University of New York, Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 18
