Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface 1 INtroductIoN NatIoNalISm, EvEryday lIfE, aNd thE myth of EtErNal rEturN 7 chaptEr 1 compEtINg maSculINItIES IN mEIjI japaN 19 Clothes Make the Man • Caricaturing the State • The Vice of Frivolity and Extravagance • Authenticating Masculinity • Neckties and High Collars • Barbarism, Adventure, and Imperialism • Fashioning Civilization chaptEr 2 thE mythoS of maSculINIzatIoN: NarratIvES of hEroISm aNd hIStorIcal IdENtIty 72 The Hero as the Agent of Order • Adventure Novels, Heroes, and Imperialism • Torture the Women! • From Boys to Men • Oshikawa Shunrō and the Creation of Hypermasculine Heroes • Iconic Heroes in History • Nationalism , Vigilante Justice, and the Politics of Direct Action vIII coNtENtS chaptEr 3 thE aESthEtIcIzatIoN of EvEryday lIfE: INvENtINg thE modErN mEmory of Edo 121 The Measure of Loyalty • The Memory of Righteous Resistance and the Ghosts of Edo • Kobayashi Kiyochika in the Autumn of Edo • Narrating the History of Edo • The Tricentennial Celebration of Tokyo • History amid the Ruins • The Genroku Boom and the Commercialization of Edo • The Eroticization of the Past • The Culture of Everyday Life chaptEr 4 thE lurE of thE modErN: ImagININg thE tEmporal SpacES of cIty aNd couNtrySIdE 177 Mass Culture, Moral Panic, and Nostalgia • The Rural Exodus • Degenerate Schoolgirls and the Awakening of Female Desire • The Monstrous City • The Light of the Home • Yanagita Kunio, Fads, and the Homogenization of Tastes coNcluSIoN oEdIpuS IN chaINS: EtErNal rEturN aNd thE mEmory of thE EpIc paSt 235 Notes 241 Bibliography 283 Index 303 ...