by ARAI Hiroyuki, in 2014

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This book introduces many artworks with motif of Tenno (Japan Emperor system), mainly post war (also some cases before World War II and modernization of Japan, and by few Asian artists).
Through the analysis the absolute Japan taboo become clear. The challenge to the taboo is also the untold art activity in Japan. The artworks that make invisible institution visible are also the most fundamental function of contemporary art.

Table of contents is as follows;

Prologue: Tenno Emperor system functions as the watershed of Japanese politics
Chapter 1: Changes and social background of Tenno Art (art with motif of Tenno) before 1945
-- Portrait ancient Japanese Emperor, Caricature in Edo era, Edoardo Chiossone, TSUKIOKA Honen, Portrait of Japanese Emperor in modern age, HONDA Kenkichiro, MIYATAKE Gaikotsu
Chapter 2: Political art had begun just after the defeat of the war
-- IKEDA Tatsuo, KATSURAGAWA Hiroshi
Chaper 3: What is the deliberation from the war experience bear?
-- YAMASHITA Kikuji, MARUKI Iri and Toshi
Chapter 4: Art through the consideration to the invisible institution
-- TAKAMATSU Jiro, IMAIZUMI Yoshihiko, AKASEGAWA Genpei, KAIHARA Hiroshi, MUKAI Takashi, UTSUMI Nobuhiko, GUN (MAEYAMA Tadashi, HORIKAWA Norio), KOIKE Kazumasa (group Genshoku), KUDO Tetsumi
Chapter 5: What does Tenno Art as the self-portrait of Japanese express?
-- OURA Nobuhiko, KOGA Tadaaki, OE Kenzaburo, MISHIMA Yukio, NAKAGAMI Kenji
Chapter 6: Tenno Art in the post Hirohito era
-- Foreign and domestic News about death of Emperor Hirohito, HONG Sung Dam, Ronald Manullang, Iswanto Hartono, Anti-Tenno activist group Akinoarashi (Storm of Autumn), ARAI Shinichi, KINJO Minoru
Chapter 7: Heterogeneity, identity politics and Nationalism on Tenno Art
-- MORIYA Tadashi, TOMIYAMA Taeko, OKAMOTO Shinjiro, NAKAMURA Masato, NAKAHASHI Katsushige, AIDA Makoto, MISE Natsunosuke
Chapter 8: Tenno Art reveals the reality and institution of Japan society
-- YANAGI Yukinori, AMEYA Norimizu, ITO Atsushi, SUGIMOTO Hiroshi
Chapter 9: Liberation by artwork of aberration
-- SHIMADA Yoshiko, MORIMURA Yasumasa, TERUYA Yuken
Cahpter 10: Public sphere, Tenno Art and Japanese Emperor system
-- OENOKI Jun, NAGASAWA Nobuho, Minoru Kolin, HIKOSAKA Naoyoshi, AIO, UKAWA Naohiro, Chaos*Lounge
Epilogue: Root of Republicanism in Japan
--YOKOI Shonan, WATANABE Kazan