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Film, Video How Do Flowers Kill? - The Japanese Emperor and Modern Dictators

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Title

  • How Do Flowers Kill? - The Japanese Emperor and Modern Dictators

Summary

  • Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, an expert on symbols of Japanese identity, compares the representations of the Meiji emperor of Japan with those of Lenin, Stalin and Hitler in a lecture titled "How Do Flowers Kill? -- The Japanese Emperor and Modern Dictators." Using examples from modern Japan, Germany and the Soviet Union, Ohnuki-Tierney explores how different traditions use symbols in creating and expressing political, religious, and symbolic power. The lecture contrasts the symbolism of cherry blossoms as used by the Japanese state during the modern period with that of roses, which were extensively deployed by all three dictators in order to illustrate how the words and symbols through which humans try to communicate do not always ensure understanding among people.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-06-18.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Government, Law
  • -  Religion
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Education
  • -  Government, World Affairs

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion.
  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-06-18.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688269

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. How Do Flowers Kill? - The Japanese Emperor and Modern Dictators. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-18, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688269/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2009) How Do Flowers Kill? - The Japanese Emperor and Modern Dictators. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-18. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688269/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. How Do Flowers Kill? - The Japanese Emperor and Modern Dictators. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-18, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688269/>.