Constructing a New Cultural History of Prewar Japan

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20074726
AutoresMiriam Silverberg (autor correspondente)
Ano1993
Páginas115-143
Data de publicação1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoJapan in the World (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822381808-007
OpenAlexW2335170095
ISBN9780822381808
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8

In January 1925, the Osaka Asahi newspaper organized a spectacle. This gathering of close to one hundred children, whose names contained the Chinese ideogram Sho of the imperial, Taisho reign, is preserved in a photograph in the pictorial magazine Asahi Gurafu. The newspaper publisher was commemorating the new newspaper comic strip serial The Adventures of Shochan, and children wore knitted Shochan hats topped with pom-poms to that end. But more than the mass-produced apparel was being advertised. As the cultural historian Tsurumi Shunsuke has pointed out, the discerning consumer of the photograph was at once made aware of the comic strip, the hat company that had donated the uniform attire, the newspaper company, and the imperial reign for which both the children and

History · Japanese History and Culture