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In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility-present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings-helped create an "aesthetic of fascism" in the years leading up to World War II. Evoking beautiful moments of violence, both real and imagined, these works did not lead to fascism in any instrumental sense. Yet, Tansman suggests, they expressed and inspired spiritual longings quenchable only through acts in the real world. Tansman traces this lineage of aesthetic fascism from its beginnings in the 1920's through its flowering in the 1930's to its afterlife in postwar Japan.

Japanese literature --- Fascism in literature. --- Fascist aesthetics --- Fascism --- Neo-fascism --- Authoritarianism --- Collectivism --- Corporate state --- National socialism --- Synarchism --- Totalitarianism --- Aesthetics --- History and criticism. --- History --- 1920s. --- 1930s. --- 20th century. --- aesthetics. --- art aesthetics. --- cultural expression. --- cultural history. --- cultural perspective. --- global history. --- historical. --- human condition. --- japan. --- japanese culture. --- japanese essays. --- japanese fascism. --- japanese film. --- japanese music. --- japanese novels. --- japanese politics. --- modern history. --- nonfiction. --- political science. --- popular music. --- postwar japan. --- pre war japan. --- retrospective. --- revolution. --- spiritual history. --- violence. --- world history. --- world war ii. --- wwii.