Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball: Cultural Representations of Japan's National Pastime
Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball: Cultural Representations of Japan's National Pastime
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Abstract
The Japanese passion for the game of baseball stretches back over one hundred years, and has its origins in the Meiji period. Baseball has long been Japan’s national pastime, and the game constitutes an important part of the social fabric of Japan. Moreover, baseball occupies a prominent position in modern Japanese culture. Starting with Masaoka Shiki’s poetry and fiction about baseball in the Meiji era and continuing all the way up to the recent baseball manga of Adachi Mitsuru, this work chronicles cultural representations of baseball in Japan with chapters devoted to poetry, fiction, manga and films that incorporate or represent baseball. The book makes the case that in Japan baseball has been used by writers, filmmakers and artists both to validate the time-honored model of Bushidō-inspired “Samurai baseball” and to challenge rigid cultural values and assumptions. Baseball has served in the modern era as a cultural touchstone to which artists have returned again and again.
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Front Matter
- Introduction: Myths of Japanese Baseball and the Game’s Cultural Representations
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Samurai Baseball: The Popular Press and the Making of a National Pastime in Meiji and Taishō Japan
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Portrait of the Artist as Yakyū Seinen: Masaoka Shiki and the Poetry of Baseball
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Coming Home: Portraying Japanese Baseball on the Silver Screen
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The One Constant: The Literature of Nostalgia and Catharsis in Postwar Japanese Baseball Fiction
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Game On: Encounters with the Magic of Baseball in Japanese Postmodern Fiction
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Happy Medium: Re-envisioning the Hero in Japanese Baseball Manga
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Epilogue: The Enduring Cultural Appeal of Baseball in Japan
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End Matter
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