interesting article about Taisho
The Taisho Era: When modernity ruled Japan's masses
By MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Special to The Japan Times
"Democracy is so popular these days!" - "The Democracy Song," 1919
One hundred years ago this week - on July 30, 1912 - Emperor Meiji passed away and Japan, traveling blind and hardly knowing where it was going, entered a new age.
The Taisho Era (1912-26), sandwiched between the boldly modernizing Meiji Era (1867-1912) and the militarist tide of early Showa (1926-1989), deserves more recognition than it gets.
Taisho is Japan's Jazz Age. Can it be summed up in a phrase? It often is: ero-guro-nansensu - eroticism, grotesquerie, nonsense.
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By MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Special to The Japan Times
"Democracy is so popular these days!" - "The Democracy Song," 1919
One hundred years ago this week - on July 30, 1912 - Emperor Meiji passed away and Japan, traveling blind and hardly knowing where it was going, entered a new age.
The Taisho Era (1912-26), sandwiched between the boldly modernizing Meiji Era (1867-1912) and the militarist tide of early Showa (1926-1989), deserves more recognition than it gets.
Taisho is Japan's Jazz Age. Can it be summed up in a phrase? It often is: ero-guro-nansensu - eroticism, grotesquerie, nonsense.
...
read the rest at: The Taisho Era: When modernity ruled Japan's masses | The Japan Times Online