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Patriotic Pedagogy: How Karuta Game Cards Taught a Japanese War Generation

Patriotic Pedagogy: How Karuta Game Cards Taught a Japanese War Generation

Kelly, Michaela

Hardcover

Series: Japanese Visual Culture, Book 20

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ISBN10: 9004466894
ISBN13: 9789004466890
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 25 2021
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.70 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
During the Fifteen Year War, Japan's 'little citizens' were educated via a curriculum centering patriotic and militarist ideologies. Patriotic Pedagogy: How Karuta Game Cards Taught a Japanese War Generation, explores karuta, a poetry card game developed in this period as progressive early childhood pedagogy. As karuta became popular as an educational toy, educators and publishers soon noted karuta's engaging physical play and short slogans and poems made them ideal for conveying patriotic ideals to children.

Including reproductions of the images and translations of the poems, Kelly offers an analysis of the race, class and gender ideologies the cards conveyed, suggesting that these semingly innocuous children's toys were effective tools of a propagandist pedagogy.

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