The Power and its Visual Representation : The Image of Emperor/Imperial Family from the Gender View Point

该项目的目的是通过基于性别的分析来调查现代日本天皇和皇室（Tenno-Goikka）的形象和功能的历史变化。根据2002年至2003年的研究，我进行了以下活动：1）通过追溯从明治时代至今的元旦报纸文章中皇室的历史形象，我发现这一形象从1922年左右开始固定下来。我还收集了有关皇室的报纸附录并分析了他们的肖像，此外还追溯了报纸上元旦庆祝“空间”的形成。2）关于十五年战争（1931-45）期间天皇和皇后的视觉再现，我关注第二届大东亚战争艺术展，分析“战争绘画”概念是如何构建的。3）我用话语和图像学的方法对裕仁天皇和麦克阿瑟在1945年第一次会面时的照片进行研究。4）我解释了天皇和皇室形象在日本殖民地朝鲜、台湾的功能5）关于皇室女性成员的生殖生活的再现，我对太子妃怀孕和分娩的视觉图像的历史进行了话语分析。6）我收集并调查了当代艺术作品如何对待天皇和皇室。这个研究项目的结果于2004年春天作为博士论文提交给东京大学的三个部门，题为“天皇和皇室的再现：历史变迁和政治”性别。”

The purpose of this project was to investigate the historical changes in the image and function of the modern Japanese Emperor and Imperial Family(Tenno-Goikka) through a gender-based analysis. Based on research conducted from 2002 to 2003, I pursued the following activities :1)By tracing the historical image of the Imperial Family in New Year's Day newspapers articles from the Meiji era, until the present, I found that this image became fixed starting around 1922. I also collected appendixes of newspapers which treated the Imperial Family and analyzed their iconography, in addition to tracing the formation of the "space" of New Year's Day celebrations in newspapers.2)On the visual representations of the Emperor and Empress during the 15-year war(1931-45), I focused on the Second Greater East Asian War Art Exhibition, analyzing how the concept of "war painting" was constructed.3)I used discursive and iconographic approaches to pursue research on the photograph of Emperor Hirohito and Mac Arthur-at their first meeting in 1945.4)I explained the function of the image of the Emperor and the Imperial Family in Japan's colonized territories of Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria.5)On representations of the reproductive life of female members of the Imperial Family, I conducted a discursive analysis on the history of visual images of the Crown Princess' pregnancy and childbirth.6)I collected and surveyed how contemporary art works treat the Emperor and the Imperial Family.The results of this research project were submitted to three departments at Tokyo University in the spring of 2004 as a PhD dissertation entitled "Representations of the Emperor and the Imperial Family : Historical Changes and the Politics of Gender."