Creating Modern Japanese Subjects

Morning Rituals from Norito to News and Weather

Bibliographic Data

ID3383032
AuthorsWilburn Hansen (San Diego State University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume7
Issue3
Pages28
Publication date2016-03-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel7030028
OpenAlexW2294525274
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

This original research on Restoration Shinto Norito seeks to explain the rhetorical devices used in the composition of a morning prayer ritual text. The nativist scholar, Hirata Atsutane, crafted this ritual to create a Japanese imperial subject with a particular understanding of native identity and national unity, appropriate to the context of a Japan in the shadow of impending modernity and fear of Western domination. The conclusions drawn concerning Hirata's rhetoric are meant to inform our understanding of the technique and power of the contemporary Japanese morning television viewing ritual used to create post-modern Japanese citizens with an identity and unity appropriate to a global secular context

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Literature · Media studies · Modernity · Morning · Political science · Prayer · Psychoanalysis · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Theology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies

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