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Symbolic Transformation of the Yasukuni Shrine: From an Entertainment Site to a Commemorative Space
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Park, Sam-hun | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-11T07:20:46Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-11T07:20:46Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018-10-31 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Seoul Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol.4 No.1, pp. 167-197 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2384-2849 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10371/144945 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The Yasukuni Shrine is a commemorative space for those who died in service of the Japanese Empire. However, the enshrinement of class-A war criminals from the Asia-Pacific War has made critics at home and abroad reevaluate the shrine as a symbolic space for Japanese right wing. Unlike the contemporary conception of the shrine as a commemorative space for Japans past wars, however, this article reveals that the Yasukuni Shrine in the early Meiji era also functioned as a site for entertainment (yokyō), which held horse racing and other various events. When did the entertaining function disappear from the conception of the Yasukuni Shrine, leaving it as a site for commemoration and glorification (kenshō) of the past? My research will show the following: The Yasukuni Shrine in the early Meiji era served primarily as a space for horse racing and other major events, which represented and publicized the new governments civilization and enlightenment policy. However, going through the Sino- Japanese War in 1894 and the construction of the main hall (haiden) in 1899, the Yasukuni Shrine gradually emerged as a site for glorification of the past rather than entertainment. The Russo-Japanese War in 1904 consolidated Yasukunis transformation towards becoming the space for glorification. | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University | - |
dc.subject | Yasukuni Shrine | - |
dc.subject | publicness | - |
dc.subject | commemoration of the war dead | - |
dc.subject | entertainment | - |
dc.subject | yokyō | - |
dc.subject | glorification | - |
dc.subject | kenshō | - |
dc.title | Symbolic Transformation of the Yasukuni Shrine: From an Entertainment Site to a Commemorative Space | - |
dc.type | SNU Journal | - |
dc.contributor.AlternativeAuthor | 박삼훈 | - |
dc.citation.journaltitle | Seoul Journal of Japanese Studies | - |
dc.citation.endpage | 197 | - |
dc.citation.number | 1 | - |
dc.citation.pages | 167-197 | - |
dc.citation.startpage | 167 | - |
dc.citation.volume | 4 | - |
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