Book chapter
Overcoming "Hinomaru-like" Views on Japan: An Introduction to a Study of Suzuki Bokushi and Country Literati in the Late Edo Period
Papers of the 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia: Japanese studies: Communities, cultures, critiques. Volume three: Coloniality, postcoloniality and modernity in Japan, pp.25-40
Monash Asia Institute
Papers of the 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia: Japanese studies: Communities, cultures, critiques (Melbourne)
2000
Abstract
The hinomaru flag can be an informative metaphor of views on Japan in historical studies as well as sociology or other disciplines. In the first instance, it .seems a. highly apt metaphor to represent conventional and persistent views:1 namely, Japan is likely to be an 'insular', 'single-centred', 'homogeneous' and 'mono-social' as in 'monolingual', 'monolithic', 'monotonous', 'monoracial' and 'monocultural'. Hinomaru symbolising the sun may imply 'uniqueness', 'eternity', 'unity', 'perfection' and 'self-sufficiency'.
Details
- Title
- Overcoming "Hinomaru-like" Views on Japan: An Introduction to a Study of Suzuki Bokushi and Country Literati in the Late Edo Period
- Authors/Creators
- T. Moriyama (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- V. Mackie (Editor)A. Skoutarides (Editor)A. Tokita (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Papers of the 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia: Japanese studies: Communities, cultures, critiques. Volume three: Coloniality, postcoloniality and modernity in Japan, pp.25-40
- Conference
- Papers of the 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia: Japanese studies: Communities, cultures, critiques (Melbourne)
- Publisher
- Monash Asia Institute; Clayton, Victoria, Australia
- Identifiers
- 991005543167407891
- Copyright
- The Author
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Note
- Japanese Studies Association of Australia Papers of the 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia: Japanese studies: Communities, cultures, critiques. Volume three
- Publisher URL
- http://future.arts.monash.edu/
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