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May 23, 2011

[SSJ: 6673] Re: Suggested sources on resistance by Japanese people in Japan

From: Ian Reader
Date: 2011/05/23

Kaye,
You should look at ema- the votive tablets people hang up at shrines and temples with written wishes and prayers/requests to kami/buddhas- which were used to express resistance or ambivalent feelings to the war. I touch on this briefly in my article 'Letters to the Gods' in the Japanese Journal of Rel Studies 1991 available online at
http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/jjrs/pdf/331.pdf
and the topic is discussed in detail in Jennifer Robertson's more recent 2008 article
Emagined-Community: Votive tablets and strategic ambivalence in wartime Japan (Asian Ethnology 2008- also available online http://www.scribd.com/doc/3832841/Emagined-Community

best wishes
Ian Reader
University of Manchester

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