The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan
- ISBN-10
- 0674267923
- ISBN-13
- 9780674267923
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-03-08
- Publisher
- Harvard East Asian Monographs
- Author
- Susan Westhafer Furukawa
Description
The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi explores how sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi's continued and evolving presence in popular culture in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan changes with the needs of the current era, and in the process expands our understanding of the powerful role that historical narratives play in Japan.
