Les rituels politiques du Japon moderne. Tournées impériales et stratégies du regard dans le Japon de Meiji

Rituals of Modernity : Imperial Tours and the Public Image in Japan under the Meiji Dynasty. From the beginning of the Meiji dynasty, Japanese leaders set up new monarchic rituals designed to create new bond between the emperor and his people. Little by little, the emperor is exposed to the public eye before people in turn indifferent festive, fervent or interested while the local authorities offer up the image of people in the process of becoming "civilized". Through such official rituals, it is the very process of the creation of State and of modern nation which is being staged in which the role of the emperor is "invented" in its new function - he represents the legitimation of modernity .Yoshimi Shun'ya, Lozerand Emmanuel. Les rituels politiques du Japon moderne. Tournées impériales et stratégies du regard dans le Japon de Meiji. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 50ᵉ année, N. 2, 1995. pp. 341-371