Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan

by Andrew Bernstein

What to do with the dead?

In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question meant relying on age-old solutions. Funerals, burials, and other mortuary rites had developed over the centuries with the aim of building continuity in the face of loss. As Japanese coped with the economic, political, and social changes that radically remade their lives in the decades after the Meiji Restoration (1868), they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824828747
• ISBN13: 9780824828745
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"