Revisioning a Japanese Spiritual Recovery Through Manga: Kobayashi Yoshinori’s ‘Gōmanism’ as Aesthetics and Ideology

James Shields

Revisioning a Japanese Spiritual Recovery Through Manga: Kobayashi Yoshinori’s ‘Gōmanism’ as Aesthetics and Ideology

James Shields

Bucknell University

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Abstract

This essay provides a critical analysis of the aesthetic ideology of “Gomanism” in the manga of Kobayashi Yoshinori (b. 1953), particularly Yasukuniron (On Yasukuni, 2005) and Tenn&omacr;ron (On the Emperor, 2009), in order to flesh out the implications of the author’s “revisionist” approach to Japanese religion, politics and history.

Original language	American English
Journal	Default journal
Volume	11
State	Published - Nov 25 2013

Keywords

Kobayashi Yoshinori
Yasukuni Shrine
manga
Japanese politics
Japanese history
Japanese culture
Japanese religion

Disciplines

Comparative Methodologies and Theories
Critical and Cultural Studies
Graphic Communications
Mass Communication
Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures
Other Religion
Political Theory

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Revisioning a Japanese Spiritual Recovery Through Manga: Kobayashi Yoshinori’s ‘Gōmanism’ as Aesthetics and Ideology

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