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• List price EUR 780.- / US$ 1068.• Critical Readings
The imperial dynasty of Japan is the oldest
on earth and the only one the Japanese have
ever known. It is unique in the sense that
Japanese emperors hardly ever decided policies,
commanded troops, administered the state,
passed judgments, or decreed on matters of
faith. Actual power was usually in the hands of
subordinates, whether aristocrats, warlords,
bureaucrats or politicians. Despite their political
and military weakness, the emperors of Japan
occupied the highest position in the realm,
enjoyed a sacred status, and their dynasty could
not be overthrown.
This 4-volume publication presents learned
articles and book chapters in English on various
aspects of the Japanese emperors from the
ancient past until today, including Hirohito’s
controversial role in the Pacific War.
Readership: All those interested in Japanese
and East Asian history and culture, and
anyone concerned with comparative political
institutions.
Ben-Ami Shillony, Ph.D. (1971), Princeton
University, is Professor Emeritus of Japanese
Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He is the recipient of the Order of the Sacred
Treasure and of the Japan Foundation Award.
In 2012, he became a member of the Israeli
Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and he has
been elected Honorary President of the Israeli
Association for Japanese Studies. His books
include Enigma of the Emperors (Global Oriental,
2005) and The Emperors of Modern Japan (Brill, 2008).
Critical Readings on the Emperors of Japan
Volume 1: Ancient and Classical Japan
INTRODUCTION
HOW DID THE STATE AND THE DYNASTY START?
1. Edwards, Walter, “In Pursuit of Himiko: Postwar Archaeology
and the Location of Yamatai,” Monumenta Nipponica, LI, 1
(Spring 1996), pp. 53-79.
2. Ledyard, Gari, “Galloping Along With the Horseriders:
Looking for the Founders of Japan,” Journal of Japanese Studies,
I, 2 (Spring 1975), pp. 217-254.
3. Allen, Chizuko, “Empress Jingū: A Shamaness Ruler in Early
Japan,” Japan Forum, XV, 1 (2003), pp. 81-98.
4. Piggott, Joan R., “Chieftain Pairs and Corulers: Female
Sovereignty in Early Japan”, in Hitomi Tonomura, Anne
Walthall, and Wakita Haruko, eds., Women and Class in
Japanese History (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1999), pp. 17-52.
5. Brown, Delmer M., “The Early Evolution of Historical
Consciousness,” in Delmer M. Brown, ed., The Cambridge
History of Japan, vol. 1: Ancient Japan (Cambridge University
Press, 1993), pp. 504-548.
Volume 3: Imperial Japan
WERE THE EMPERORS GODS?
6. Kirkland, Russel, “The Sun and the Throne: The Origins of
the Royal Descent in Ancient Japan”, Numen, XLIV, 2 (May
1997), pp. 109-152.
INTRODUCTION
7. Tsuda, Sōkichi, “The Idea of kami in Ancient Japanese
Classics,” T’oung Pao, LII (1965- 1966), pp. 293-304.
8. Shillony, Ben-Ami, “Were the Emperors Gods?”, “Emperor
and Goddess”, and “The Shaman Queens” in Shillony, BenAmi, Enigma of the Emperors: Sacred Subservience in Japanese
History (Global Oriental, 2005), pp. 15-38.
9. Kitagawa, Joseph M., “Chapter 1. Emperor, Shaman, and
Priest: Religious Life of the Early Japanese”, in Kitagawa,
Joseph M., Religion in Japanese History (Columbia University
Press, 1966), pp. 3-45.
10. Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko, “The Emperor of Japan as Deity
(Kami),” Ehnology, XXX, 3 (1991), pp. 199-215.
11. Yamaguchi, Masao, “The Dual Structure of Japanese
Emperorship”, Current Anthropology, XXVIII, 4 (AugustOctober 1987), supplement, pp S5-S11.
THE MEIJI EMPEROR: TRADITION, MODERNITY
AND MASCULINITY
23. Breen, John, “The Imperial Oath of April 1868: Ritual, Politics
and Power in the Restoration”, Monumenta Nipponica LI, 4
(Winter 1996), pp. 407-429.
24. Hara Takeshi, “The ‘Great Emperor’ Meiji,” in Ben-Ami
Shillony, ed., The Emperors of Modern Japan (Brill, 2008), pp. 213-225.
25. Hall, John Whitney, “A Monarch for Modern Japan,” in Robert
E. Ward, ed., Political Development in Modern Japan (Princeton
University Press, 1968), pp. 11-59.
26. Fujitani, T., “Chapter 4. The Monarchy in Japan’s Modernity”,
in Fujitani, T., Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern
Japan (University of California Press, 1996), pp. 155-194; 271-276.
27. Kornicki, Peter F., “The Exclusion of Women from the
Imperial Succession in Modern Japan,” Asiatica Venetiana, vol.
4 (1999), pp. 133-152.
ATTAINING POWER BY ABDICATING THE THRONE
12. Hurst III, G. Cameron, “The Development of the Insei: A Problem in Japanese History and Historiography,” in
John F. Hall and Jeffrey P. Mass, eds., Medieval Japan: Essays in
Institutional History (Yale University Press, 1974), pp. 60-90.
Volume 4: Postwar Japan
INTRODUCTION
Volume 2: Feudal Japan
INTRODUCTION
AN EMPEROR WHO TRIED TO RULE
AND A SHOGUN WHO TRIED TO REIGN
13. Morris, Ivan, “Seven Lives for the Nation”, in Morris, Ivan, The Nobility of Failure (Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1975), pp. 106-142; 372-391.
14. Imatani, Akira and Kozo Yamamura, “Not for Lack of Will or
Wile: Yoshimitsu’s Failure to Supplant the Imperial Lineage,”
Journal of Japanese Studies, XVIII, 1 (Winter 1992), pp. 45-78.
MIGHTY WARRIORS SERVILE TO WEAK EMPERORS
15. Berry, Mary Elizabeth, “The Pursuit of Legitimacy”, in Berry,
Mary Elizabeth, Hideyoshi (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1982), pp. 168-187; 272-274.
16. Butler, Lee, “Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Regulations for the Court: A Reappraisal”, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 54, no. 2
(1994), pp. 509-541; 547-551.
EMPERORS AND STATE IN THE TOKUGAWA ERA
17. Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, “In Name Only: Imperial
Sovereignty in Early Modern Japan,” Journal of Japanese
Studies, 17:1 (1991), pp. 25-57.
18. Shillony, Ben-Ami, “Chapters 3-5, 12-13”, in Shillony, BenAmi, Enigma of the Emperors: Sacred Subservience in Japanese
History (Global Oriental, 2005), pp. 15-38, 89-107.
19. Webb, Herschel, “Part II, Chapters 1-4”, in Webb, Herschel, The
Japanese Imperial Institution in the Tokugawa Period (Columbia
University Press, 1968), pp. 65-100.
WHAT STIRRED THE IMPERIAL LOYALISTS
20. Brownlee, John S., “Chapters 2-3”, in Brownlee, John S.,
Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945 (UBC Press,
1997), pp. 29-53.
21. Van Straelen, H., “Chapters 4-7”, in Straelen, H. van, Yoshida
Shōin, Forerunner of the Meiji Restoration (E.J. Brill, 1952), pp. 51-85.
22. Keene, Donald, “Chapters 9-11”, in Keene, Donald, Emperor of
Japan: Meiji and his World, 1852-1912 (Columbia University Press,
2002), pp. 74-98.
LEAVING THE EMPEROR AN REMOVING HIS DIVINITY
34. Woodard, William, “Chapters 27-28”, in Woodard, William,
The Allied Occupation of Japan 1945-1952 and Japanese Religions
(E.J. Brill, 1972), pp. 250-275.
35. Large, Stephen S., “Chapter 6. The Emperor and the
Occupation, 1945-1952”, in Large, Stephen S., Emperor Hirohito
and Shōwa Japan: A Political Biography (Routledge, 1992), pp. 132-160.
THE CONTROVERSY OVER HIROHITO´S RESPONSIBILITY
FOR THE WAR
36. Bix, Herbert P., “Introduction”, in Bix, Herbert P., Hirohito and
the Making of Modern Japan (Harper Collins, 2000), pp. 1-18;
690-691.
37. Wetzler, Peter, “Conclusion”, in Wetzler, Peter, Hirohito and
War (University of Hawaii Press, 1998), pp. 179-202.
38. Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, “Axes to Grind: The Hirohito War
Guilt Controversy in Japan,” in Ben-Ami Shillony, ed., The
Emperors of Modern Japan (Brill, 2008), pp. 271-298.
THE POSTWAR NATIONALISTS AND THE EMPEROR
39. Breen, John, “Introduction, a Yasukuni Genealogy,” in Breen,
John ed., Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan’s Past
(Columbia University Press, 2008), pp. 1-21.
40. Napier, Susan J., “Death and the Emperor: Mishima, Ōe, and
the Politics of Betrayal,” Journal of Asian Studies, XLVIII, 1
(February 1989), pp. 71-89.
MEIJI AND TAISHŌ: EMPERORS OF THE PEOPLE
28. Gluck, Carol, “The Modern Monarch”, in Gluck, Carol, Japan’s
Modern Myths (Columbia University Press, 1985), pp. 73-101.
29. Titus, David A., “Chapter 3. The Palace Bureaucracy:
Gatekeepers of the Imperial Will”, in Titus, David A., Palace &
Politics in Prewar Japan (Columbia University Press, 1974), pp. 51-95.
30. Hara Takeshi, “Taishō: An Enigmatic Emperor and his
Influential Wife,” in Ben-Ami Shillony, ed., The Emperors of
Modern Japan (Brill, 2008), pp. 227-240.
THE SHŌWA EMPEROR IN THE VORTEX OF POLITICAL STORMS
31. Kersten, Rikki, “The Emperor and the Left in Interwar
Japan,” in Ben-Ami Shillony, ed., The Emperors of Modern Japan
(Brill, 2008), pp. 107-136.
32. Goto-Jones, Christopher, “Revering the Emperor and Bushidō”,
in Ben-Ami Shillony, ed., The Emperors of Modern Japan (Brill,
2008), pp. 23-52.
33. Shillony, Ben-Ami, Revolt in Japan: The Young Officers and the
February 26, 1936 Incident (Princeton University Press, 1973),
pp. 172-197.
41. Ruoff, Kenneth J., “Chapter 5”, in Ruoff, Kenneth J., The
People’s Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995
(Harvard University Press, 2001), pp. 158-201.
42. Shillony, Ben-Ami, “Conservative Dissatisfaction with the
Modern Emperors”, in Ben-Ami Shillony, ed., The Emperors of
Modern Japan (Brill, 2008), pp. 137-162.
THE PUBLIC AND THE EMPEROR
43. Watanabe Osamu, “The Sociology of Jishuku and Kichō: The
Death of the Shōwa Tennō as Reflection of the Structure of
Contemporary Japanese Society,” Japan Forum, I, 2 (October
1989), pp. 275-289.
44. Lebra, Takie S., “Self and Other in Esteemed Status: The
Changing Culture of Japanese Royalty from Shōwa to Heisei,”
Journal of Japanese Studies, XXIII, 2 (Summer 1997), pp. 257-289.
HOW TO ENSURE THE DYNASTY´S FUTURE?
45. Takahashi Hiroshi, “Akihito and the Problem of Succession,”
in Ben-Ami Shillony, ed., The Emperors of Modern Japan (Brill,
2008), pp. 313-329.
APPENDICES
The Constitution of the Empire of Japan
(The Part Related to the Emperor)
The Constitution of Japan (The Part Related to the Emperor)
The Imperial Household Law of 1889
The Imperial Household Law of 1947
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX