... game of inversion symbolic inversion Murakami Haruki Foucault Michel Goffman Erving Huizinga Johan Caillois Roger fashion Nanba Koji Hebdige Dick kosupure costume play Bubble era ganguro black face Kinsella Sharon Moeran Brian with Lise Skov jōshidaisei būmu female college students’ boom...

... feminist organizations are developed through participation in these activities, which often include the wearing of a particular “uniform.” Hence, this chapter focuses on both the content and performance of these practices insofar as they inform us about how women activists represented and fashioned women...

... of the founding of Edo in 1889 and the commercialization of tradition through the consumption of the fashions and styles of the Genroku era during the late Meiji period. The chapter argues that nostalgia for Genroku-era tastes in the form of female bodies adorned in Genroku-style fashions was an expression...

...This chapter examines the perceived temporal gap between the city and the countryside in Meiji Japan, signified by the lag in the spread of fashions (ryūkō). It first considers how the spread of mass culture triggered moral panic and nostalgia during the Meiji period before...

...) and Taishō period (1912–1926, left) dresses. Private collection. Figure 17.6. Kon Wajiro’s Study of Fashion, July 1925. Reproduced from Miriam Silverberg , “Constructing the Japanese Ethnography of Modernity,” Journal of Asian Studies 51, no. 1 (February 1992): p. 38 . Figure...

...This chapter examines why the khit hsan thu and other variants of the fashionable female became the target of censorious and often misogynistic representations in the media. It considers various criticisms hurled against the khit hsan thuand their motivations...

... in the 1950s in the form of comic books and animated films. It then considers the emergence of Japanese fashion designers, namely Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo, who radically altered the body through their rejection of traditional modes of clothing design in favor of new shapes and styles that more closely...

... youth subcultures fashion Hebdige Dick Tokyo ganguro black face Baudrillard Jean Deleuze Gilles anime Japanese animation Fiske John manga media mix otaku Babcock Barbara game of inversion symbolic inversion kata patterns of movement in performing arts and martial arts kosupure costume...

...This chapter examines the appeal of being an artist for Japanese migrants in New York City, along with the relationship between urban life and creative production. It shows that artistic production is a key means of self-actualization by drawing on the ethnographies of art and fashion. It also...

... suggests a fresh history of modern Japanese culture—one that until now has not been widely visible or thoroughly analyzed outside that country. The book explores an impressive array of subjects: painting, sculpture, prints, fashion design, crafts, and gardens. The works discussed range from early Meiji...

... ritual sense. Such a conception of error reflected Ying’s understanding of ritual as a type of fengsu 風俗 or fashion rather than a set of timeless rules. Ying Shao’s theory of ritual error not only offers a window into the beliefs of the late Han elite, but it supplies a framework...