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Japan on Display

Photography and the Emperor

Japan on Display( )
Author: Low, Morris
Series title:Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Ser.
ISBN:978-0-415-64935-3
Publication Date:Nov 2012
Publisher:Routledge
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $62.95
Book Description:

Sixty years on from the end of the Pacific War, Japan on Display examines representations of the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito (1852-1912) and his grandson the Showa emperor, Hirohito who was regarded as a symbol of the nation, in both war and peacetime. Much of this representation was aided by the phenomenon of photography.

The introduction and development of photography in the nineteenth century coincided with the need to make Hirohito's grandfather, the young Meiji Emperor,...
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