Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. Opacity, Misrecognition, and Other Complexities of Symbolic Communication 1
6. Part I. Sources of Communicative Opacity: Many Meanings, One Meaning, the Aesthetic
7. One. Japanese Cherry Blossoms 25
8. Two. European Roses 57
9. Three. The Subversive Monkey in Japanese Culture 83
10. Four. Rice and the Japanese Collective Self 101
11. Part II. Collective Identities and Their Symbolic Expression
12. Five. The Collective Self and Cultural/Political Nationalisms 125
13. Part III. (Non-)Externalization: Religious and Political Authority/Power
14. Six. The Invisible and Inaudible Japanese Emperor 155
15. Seven. (Non-)Externalization of Religious and Political Authority/Power 183
16. Afterword 203
17. Notes 209
18. References 227
19. Index 257