ingenious solution / formal and powerful media / travel-based story-cycle / media technology / printing / successive historical media complexes / media complex / subsequent modern media / stage devices / prime media / media complexes / woodblock printing / cross-media proliferation / media technologies / /
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Columbia University / /
Person
Ōishi Kuranosuke / Toyotomi Hideyori / Satō Tadao / Mito Kōmon / Barbara Ruch / Henry SMITH / Toyotomi Hideyoshi / Popular History / Tokugawa Mitsukuni / Yoritomo / Ivan Morris / Meiji Tokyo / Miyamoto Musashi / Kira Yoshinaka / /
The Media and Politics of Japanese Popular History: The Case of the Akō Gishi Henry SMITH Columbia University All cultures, from ancient to contemporary, retell tales of heroes of the past, over and over again. Modern J