TY - BOOK ID - 36410993 TI - The politics of dialogic imagination : power and popular culture in early modern Japan PY - 2014 SN - 9780226060422 9780226060569 PB - Chicago The University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Arts, Political aspects KW - Popular culture KW - Human body in popular culture KW - Human body KW - Kabuki KW - Japanese wit and humor KW - History KW - Government policy KW - History. KW - Political aspects KW - Political aspects. KW - Japan KW - Cultural policy KW - Politics and government KW - Arts KW - Japanese literature KW - Theater KW - Body, Human KW - Human beings KW - Body image KW - Human anatomy KW - Human physiology KW - Mind and body KW - Body, Human, in popular culture KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Communication KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Culture KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Occidental KW - Arts, Western KW - Fine arts KW - Humanities KW - Government policy&delete& KW - Nihon KW - Nippon KW - Iapōnia KW - Zhāpān KW - I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ KW - Yapan KW - Japon KW - Japão KW - Japam KW - Mư̄ang Yīpun KW - Prathēt Yīpun KW - Yīpun KW - Jih-pen KW - Riben KW - Government of Japan KW - 日本 KW - 日本国 KW - Nipponkoku KW - Nippon-koku KW - Nihonkoku KW - Nihon-koku KW - State of Japan KW - Япония KW - Japani KW - اليابان KW - al-Yābān KW - يابان KW - Yābān KW - Japonsko KW - Giappone KW - Japonia KW - Japonya KW - J4143 KW - J4150.60 KW - J4001 KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) KW - Japan: Social sciences in general -- policy, legislation, guidelines, codes of behavior KW - Arts, Primitive KW - Jepun KW - Yapon KW - Yapon Ulus KW - I︠A︡pon KW - Япон KW - I︠A︡pon Uls KW - Япон Улс UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:36410993 AB - In this work, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo). He does so by examining the works of writers and artists who depicted and celebrated the culture of play and pleasure associated with Edo's street entertainers, vagrants, actors, and prostitutes, whom Tokugawa authorities condemned as detrimental to public mores, social order, and political economy. ER -