Japan's castles : citadels of modernity in war and peace /
An innovative examination of heritage politics in Japan, showing how castles have been used to reinvent and recapture competing versions of the pre-imperial past and project possibilities for Japan's future. Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg argue that Japan's modern transformations can be t...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Considering Castles and Tenshu
- Modern Castles on the Margins
- Overview: "from Feudalism to the Edge of Space"
- From Feudalism to Empire
- Castles and the Transition to the Imperial State
- Castles in the Global Early Modern World
- Castles and the Fall of the Tokugawa
- Useless Reminders of the Feudal Past
- Remilitarizing Castles in the Meiji Period
- Considering Heritage in Early Meiji
- Castles and the Imperial House
- The Discovery of Castles, 1877-1912
- Making Space Public
- Civilian Castles and Daimyo Buyback
- Castles as Sites and Subjects of Exhibitions
- Civil Society and the Organized Preservation of Castles
- Castles, Civil Society, and the Paradoxes of "Taisho Militarism"
- Building an Urban Military
- Castles and Military Hard Power
- Castles as Military Soft Power
- Challenging the Military
- The military and Public in Osaka
- Castles in War and Peace: Celebrating Modernity, Empire, and War
- The Early Development of Castle Studies
- The Arrival of Castle Studies in Wartime
- Castles for town and country
- Castles for the empire
- From feudalism to the edge of space
- Castles in war and peace II: Kokura, Kanazawa, and the Rehabilitation of the
- Nation
- Desolate gravesites of fallen empire: what became of castles
- The imperial castle and the transformation of the center
- Kanazawa castle and the ideals of progressive education
- Losing our traditions: lamenting the fate of japanese heritage
- Kokura castle and the politics of japanese identity
- "Fukko": hiroshima castle rises from the ashes
- Hiroshima castle: from castle road to macarthur boulevard and back
- Prelude to the castle: rebuilding hiroshima gokoku shrine
- Reconstructions: celebrations of recovery in hiroshima
- Between modernity and tradition at the periphery and the world stage
- The weight of Meiji: the imperial general headquarters in hiroshima and the
- Meiji centenary
- Escape from the center: castles and the search for local identity
- Elephants and castles: odawara and the shadow of tokyo
- Victims of history I: Aizu-wakamatsu and the revival of grievances
- Victims of history II: Shimabara castle and the Enshrinement of loss
- Southern Barbarians at the gates: Kokura castle's struggle with authenticity
- Japan's new castle builders: recapturing tradition and culture
- Rebuilding the Meijo: (re)building campaigns in Kumamoto and Nagoya
- No business like castle business: castle architects and construction companies
- Symbols of the people? conflict and accommodation in Kumamoto and Nagoya
- Conclusions.