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Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball : Cultural Representations of Japan's National Pastime /
Almost right from the introduction of baseball to Japan the sport was regarded as qualitatively different from the original American model. This vision of Japanese baseball associates the sport with steadfast devotion (magokoro) and the values of the samurai class in the code of Bushidō, in which g...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction : myths of Japanese baseball and the game's cultural representations
- Samurai baseball : the popular press and the making of a national pastime in Meiji and Taishō Japan
- Portrait of the artist as Yakyū Seinen : Masaoka Shiki and the poetry of baseball
- Coming home : portraying Japanese baseball on the silver screen
- The one constant : the literature of nostalgia and catharsis in postwar Japanese baseball fiction
- Game on : encounters with the magic of baseball in Japanese postmodern fiction
- Happy medium : re-envisioning the hero in Japanese baseball manga
- Epilogue : the enduring cultural appeal of baseball in Japan
- Appendix : glossary of selected terms in Japanese.