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Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation--the Great Kantō Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923--this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. The Kantō earthquake triggered cultural responses that ran the gamut from voyeuristic and macabre thrill to the romantic sublime, media spectacle to sacred space, mournful commemoration to emancipatory euphoria, and national solidarity to racist vigilantism and sociopolitical critique. Looking at photography, cinema, painting, postcards, sketching, urban planning, and even scientific visualizations, Weisenfeld argues that that visual culture has powerfully mediated the evolving historical understanding of this major national disaster, ultimately enfolding mourning and memory into modernization [Publisher description].

Arts, Japanese --- Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923. --- Earthquakes in art. --- Arts and society --- Earthquakes --- Quakes (Earthquakes) --- Earth movements --- Natural disasters --- Seismology --- Arts --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Great Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Great Tokyo Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Tokyo Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Japanese arts --- Themes, motives. --- History --- Social aspects --- Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Earthquakes in art --- J3375 --- J3410 --- Themes, motives --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Taishō period (1912-1926) --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Kantō region, greater Tōkyō --- Kanto Earthquake (Japan : 1923) --- analytical analysis. --- asian history. --- books about japan. --- books about the environment. --- books for history lovers. --- catastrophe planning. --- catastrophic event. --- culture in tokyo. --- earthquakes. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- environmental ecology. --- environmental history. --- great kanto earthquake. --- interesting books. --- japanese culture. --- japanese history. --- japanese nationalism. --- major historical events. --- mother nature. --- national disaster. --- natural disasters. --- nature and politics. --- page turner. --- politics and disaster. --- sociopolitical critique.

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Edited by Roy Starrs, this collection of essays by an international group of leading experts on Japanese religion, anthropology, history, literature and music presents new research and thinking on the long and complex relationship between culture and disaster in Japan, one of the most “disaster-prone” countries in the world. Focusing first on responses to the triple disasters of March 2011, the book then puts the topic in a wider historical context by looking at responses to earlier disasters, both natural and man-made, including the great quakes of 1995 and 1923 and the atomic bombings of 1945. This wide-ranging “double structure” enables an in-depth understanding of the complexities of the issues involved that goes well beyond the clichés and the headlines.

J5500.90 --- J5509 --- J5500.80 --- J7400 --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- geology --- Japan: Science and technology -- geology --- Disasters --- Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011. --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011. --- Typhoons --- Floods --- Atomic bomb --- Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923. --- Disasters in literature. --- Japanese literature --- Calamities --- Catastrophes --- Curiosities and wonders --- Accidents --- Hazardous geographic environments --- Great Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Great Tokyo Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Tokyo Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Earthquakes --- A-bomb --- Atom bomb --- Bombs --- Nuclear weapons --- Flooding --- Inundations --- Natural disasters --- Water --- Cyclones --- Fukushima I Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima II Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Accident, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Daini Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Japan, 2011 --- Nuclear power plants --- Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 --- Great East Japan Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Great East Japan Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Great Tohoku Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Northeast Region Pacific Ocean Offshore Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Pacific Offshore Tohoku Region Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Tohoku Pacific Ocean Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Tsunamis --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Social aspects --- History. --- History --- Religious aspects --- History and criticism.