Envisioning the empress: the lives and images of Japanese imperial women, 1868-1952
"Envisioning the Empress illuminates dynamic and powerful empresses who impacted not only women in their own time, but whose influence extended to later generations of royalty, creating a greater role for imperial women and elevating the status of women's roles at a crucial juncture in Jap...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2025
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| Schriftenreihe: | Lives of royal women
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Envisioning the Empress illuminates dynamic and powerful empresses who impacted not only women in their own time, but whose influence extended to later generations of royalty, creating a greater role for imperial women and elevating the status of women's roles at a crucial juncture in Japanese history. The central focus of this book is visual monarchy, exploring how the empress' biographies were primarily expressed in visual culture, and how their images worked in support of Japan's imperial policies in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The book begins with a brief overview of premodern and modern imperial women to orientate the reader. In each chapter different media, audiences, and distribution channels for constructing the narrative of feminine imperial power in Japan, are addressed alongside biographical information. It is argued that the ultimate purpose of all of these images was to elevate the empress, and promote her image as a conventional role model for modern women, but one with enough celebrity cache to maintain popularity. The images of the modern empresses, as distributed by the Imperial Household Agency, strike a balance between propaganda and popular media, noble philanthropist and upper-middle class role model, celebrity and mother of the nation. The modern empress image was crafted to be both exalted and approachable, and worked to establish individual biographies while simultaneously establishing the position of the empress as timeless in the public eye. Envisioning the Empress introduces students of royal studies, as well as modern Japanese history and art history to this fascinating element of the history of monarchy and women's history more broadly"-- |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 296 pages illustrations 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781032451756 1032451750 9781032452371 1032452374 |
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| 520 | 3 | |a "Envisioning the Empress illuminates dynamic and powerful empresses who impacted not only women in their own time, but whose influence extended to later generations of royalty, creating a greater role for imperial women and elevating the status of women's roles at a crucial juncture in Japanese history. The central focus of this book is visual monarchy, exploring how the empress' biographies were primarily expressed in visual culture, and how their images worked in support of Japan's imperial policies in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The book begins with a brief overview of premodern and modern imperial women to orientate the reader. In each chapter different media, audiences, and distribution channels for constructing the narrative of feminine imperial power in Japan, are addressed alongside biographical information. It is argued that the ultimate purpose of all of these images was to elevate the empress, and promote her image as a conventional role model for modern women, but one with enough celebrity cache to maintain popularity. The images of the modern empresses, as distributed by the Imperial Household Agency, strike a balance between propaganda and popular media, noble philanthropist and upper-middle class role model, celebrity and mother of the nation. The modern empress image was crafted to be both exalted and approachable, and worked to establish individual biographies while simultaneously establishing the position of the empress as timeless in the public eye. Envisioning the Empress introduces students of royal studies, as well as modern Japanese history and art history to this fascinating element of the history of monarchy and women's history more broadly"-- | |
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| spelling | Miller, Alison J. Verfasser (DE-588)1259541525 aut Envisioning the empress the lives and images of Japanese imperial women, 1868-1952 Alison J. Miller Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2025 xii, 296 pages illustrations 21 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Lives of royal women Introduction : the visual monarchy -- The modern imperial family : institutions and images -- Mimesis and multiples : Empress Shōken and the power of print in establishing the public empress persona -- The optics of modernity : Empress Teimei, photography, mass media, and gender in the imperial likeness -- Towards the sacred and the standard : formality, lineage, and decorum in the modern Japanese imperial portrait -- Fashion, national identity, and the community of royals : global monarchical visual culture between the Meiji and Taishō periods -- Mourning and memory : the visual politics of imperial funerals and memorial sites "Envisioning the Empress illuminates dynamic and powerful empresses who impacted not only women in their own time, but whose influence extended to later generations of royalty, creating a greater role for imperial women and elevating the status of women's roles at a crucial juncture in Japanese history. The central focus of this book is visual monarchy, exploring how the empress' biographies were primarily expressed in visual culture, and how their images worked in support of Japan's imperial policies in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The book begins with a brief overview of premodern and modern imperial women to orientate the reader. In each chapter different media, audiences, and distribution channels for constructing the narrative of feminine imperial power in Japan, are addressed alongside biographical information. It is argued that the ultimate purpose of all of these images was to elevate the empress, and promote her image as a conventional role model for modern women, but one with enough celebrity cache to maintain popularity. The images of the modern empresses, as distributed by the Imperial Household Agency, strike a balance between propaganda and popular media, noble philanthropist and upper-middle class role model, celebrity and mother of the nation. The modern empress image was crafted to be both exalted and approachable, and worked to establish individual biographies while simultaneously establishing the position of the empress as timeless in the public eye. Envisioning the Empress introduces students of royal studies, as well as modern Japanese history and art history to this fascinating element of the history of monarchy and women's history more broadly"-- Empresses / Japan / History / 19th century Empresses / Japan / History / 20th century Empresses / Japan / Portraits Political art / Japan Japan / Kings and rulers Japan / Politics and government / 1868- Impératrices / Japon / Histoire / 19e siècle Impératrices / Japon / Histoire / 20e siècle Impératrices / Japon / Portraits Japon / Politique et gouvernement / 1868- Online version Miller, Alison J. Envisioning the empress London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025 9781003376101 |
| spellingShingle | Miller, Alison J. Envisioning the empress the lives and images of Japanese imperial women, 1868-1952 Introduction : the visual monarchy -- The modern imperial family : institutions and images -- Mimesis and multiples : Empress Shōken and the power of print in establishing the public empress persona -- The optics of modernity : Empress Teimei, photography, mass media, and gender in the imperial likeness -- Towards the sacred and the standard : formality, lineage, and decorum in the modern Japanese imperial portrait -- Fashion, national identity, and the community of royals : global monarchical visual culture between the Meiji and Taishō periods -- Mourning and memory : the visual politics of imperial funerals and memorial sites |
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