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Martial arts and the body politic in Meiji Japan [electronic resource] / Denis Gainty.

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In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held itsfirst 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 popular...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Gainty, Denis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, ©2013.
Series:Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 81.
Subjects:
Martial arts > Japan > History.
Human body > Social aspects > Japan.
Human body > Political aspects > Japan.
Japan > History > Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Human body > Political aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
Martial arts.
Japan.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. context for the Butokukai: the development of martial arts and the samurai as cultural forms in Tokugawa and early Meiji
  • 2. Dainippon Butokukai: its founding, growth, and dissolution
  • 3. Capture the flag: spectacle and rhetoric
  • 4. Talking teaching: the rhetoric of martial arts in physical education
  • 5. Giving the state its legs: rethinking agency and the body through the Butokukai
  • 6. Conclusion.

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