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Subject(s)

• Martial arts—Japan—History [Browse]
• Human body—Social aspects—Japan [Browse]
• Human body—Political aspects—Japan [Browse]
• Japan—History—Meiji period, 1868-1912 [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 81. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 81 [More in this series]

Summary note

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 Japanese citizens would experience, draw on, and even shape the Japanese nation and state.This book shows how the notion and practice of Japanese martial arts in the late Me

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Language note

English

Contents

Cover; Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Note to readers; Introduction; 1 The context for the Butokukai: the development of martial arts and the samurai as cultural forms in Tokugawa and early Meiji; 2 The 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 1-135-06989-1
• 0-203-59095-3
• 1-299-46963-9
• 1-135-06990-5

OCLC

• 841914973
• 846947538
• 840257047

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203590959

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