EAST 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hibiya Park, Meiji Period, Gazebo
5 May 2019
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Essay #2 due soon: talk about the questions that arise from these prompts and don"t just copy the prof. Readings: political agitation written in 1911 by women = hing between meiji and taisho periods. During meiji period: emperor was paraded to meet the people + mass media was there. + both the literal body of the emperor and the conceputalization of the emperor as a literar body what it meant to have an emperor and be a nation with an emperor. ==>shift at level of the populus = what people expected from their everyday lives = //how modernisms allowed people to talk about what it means to live in a modern age. ==> realism versus constructivism = related to that. ==>revolution of what a citizen is = what yu can expect of this "imagined community" that we now call a nation. ==> reconfiguration of space : tokyo as target city and movement of emperor shaped that.
