A History of Popular Culture in Japan : From the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Hardcover, HPOD)

Acknowledgements Foreword 1. The Worst to be Said and Thought?-Defining Popular Culture 2. Floating Worlds-The Birth of Popular Culture in Japan 3. Delicate Dancing-Early Modern Japan's Culture Wars 4. Popular Culture as Subject and Object of Meiji Modernization 5. Cultural Living-Cosmopolitan Modernism in Imperial Japan 6. Entertaining Empire-Popular Culture as a "Technology of Imperialism" 7. "Our Spirit Against Their Steel"-Mobilizing Culture for War 8. Democracy, Monstrosity and Pensive Prosperity-Postwar Pop 9. Millennial Japan as Dream Factory Afterword-Contemplating Cool Notes Index