Title Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (260 pages) Series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series Routledge contemporary Japan series. Contents Cover; Negotiating Censorship in ModernJapan; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: negotiating censorship in modern Japan; 2 Censorship and patronage in Meiji kabuki theater; 3 Seditious obscenity/obscene seditions: the radical eroticism of Umehara Hokumei; 4 The censor as critic: Ogawa Chikagorō and popular music censorship in imperial Japan; 5 Kawabata's wartime message in Beautiful Voyage (Utsukushii tabi); 6 Banned books in the hands of Japanese librarians: from Meiji to postwar 7 Self-censorship: the case of wartime Japanese poetry8 Kurosawa Akira's One Wonderful Sunday: censorship, context and counter-discursive film; 9 Censoring Tamura Taijirō's Biography of a Prostitute (Shunpuden); 10 Censoring imperial honorifics: a linguistic analysis of Occupation censorship in newspapers and literature; 11 'Art' il-legally defined? A legal and art historical analysis of Akasegawa Genpei's Model Thousand-yen Note Incident; 12 Parodying the censor and censoring parody in modern Japan; Index Summary Censorship in Japan has seen many changes over the last 150 years and each successive system of rule has possessed its own censorship laws, regulations, and methods of enforcement. Yet what has remained constant through these many upheavals has been the process of negotiation between censor and artist that can be seen across the cultural media of modern society. By exploring censorship in a number of different Japanese art forms - from popular music and kabuki performance through to fiction, poetry and film - across a range of historical periods, this book provides a striking picture Notes Print version record Subject Censorship -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Prohibited books -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Literature and state -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Freedom of information -- Japan Censorship Freedom of information Japanese literature Literature and state Prohibited books Japan Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781135069827 1135069824

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