Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor

by Morris Low

Sixty years on from the end of the Pacific War, Japan on Display examines representations of the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito (1852-1912) and his grandson the Showa emperor, Hirohito who was regarded as a symbol of the nation, in both war and peacetime. Much of this representation was aided by the phenomenon of photography.

The introduction and development of photography in the nineteenth century coincided with the need to make Hirohito's grandfather,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415649358
• ISBN13: 9780415649353
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"