1. Tradition: Past/Present Culture and Modern Japanese History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS IX
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS XI
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XIII
5. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION XVII
6. 1. Tradition: Past/Present Culture and Modern Japanese History 1
7. PART ONE Harmony 17
8. 2. The Invention of Japanese-Style Labor Management 17
9. 3. The Invention of Wa and the Transformation of the Image of Prince Shötoku in Modern Japan 37
10. 4. Weak Legal Consciousness as Invented Tradition 48
11. PART TWO Village
12. 5. The Japanese Village: Imagined, Real, Contested 65
13. 6. Agrarianism Without Tradition: The Radical Critique of Prewar Japanese Modernity 79
14. 7. Colonizing Manchuria: The Making of an Imperial Myth 95
15. 8. It Takes a Village: Internationalization and Nostalgia in Postwar Japan 110
16. PART THREE Folk
17. 9. Chihd: Yanagita Kunio' s "Japan" 131
18. 10. Figuring the Folk: History, Poetics, and Representation 144
19. PART FOUR Sports
20. 11. The Invention of the Martial Arts: Kanojigoro and Kodokanjudo 161
21. 12. The Invention of the Yokozuna and the Championship System, Or, Futahaguro's Revenge 174
22. PART FIVE Gender
23. 13. At Hom e in the Meiji Period: Inventing Japanese Domesticity 189
24. 14. The Cafe Waitress Serving Moder n Japan 208
25. PART SIX History
26. 15. Constructing Shinano: Th e Invention of a Neo-Traditional Region 227
27. 16. "Doubly Cruel" : Marxism and the Presence of the Past in Japanese Capitalism 243
28. 17. The Invention of Edo 262
29. 18. Afterword: Revisiting the Tradition/Modernity Binary 285
30. GLOSSARY 297
31. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 301
32. CONTRIBUTORS 311
33. INDEX 315