著者
千葉 慶
出版者
ジェンダー史学会
雑誌
ジェンダー史学 (ISSN:18804357)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.2, pp.5-19, 2006 (Released:2011-10-11)
参考文献数
38

This paper deals with the political function of Amaterasu in the Modern Japanese Imperial State from the perspective of gender theory. What exactly was Amaterasu? First, as the ancestral goddess,she was the legitimating principle of the modern Japanese Imperial State. Second, Amaterasu was a cross-dressing goddess, an androgynous being. Androgyny was used as a sign that pointed to a being that lies beyond Power-Law; at the same time it was this higher being who defined Power-Law. In other words, androgyny was seen as the source of Power. For this reason, the attribute of hermaphroditism was included in Amaterasu as an icon of "Legitimacy" during the Restoration period and its changing social order. However, because the national order was constituted in a masculinist form, this hermaphroditic element came to be seen as threatening to patriarchy. Even so, the state could not let go of Amaterasu as a symbol of the source of authority. In the process of formation of the modern imperial nation-state, while the emperor and the government appropriated Amaterasu, her androgynous attributes were forcibly domesticated through social norms. Amaterasu could not be represented in national textbooks, staging her sacred character. This prohibition of representation symbolized at the same time the attribute of "great womanhood" (her symbolic hermaphroditism).Despite the Meiji system's consideration of her hermaphroditic attributes to be heretical, these attributes did not entirely disappear. On the one hand, Amaterasu's attributes became the fundamental support of the women's equal rights movement; on the other hand, as the hall-mark of divinity that overcomes the worldly dimension of existence, Amaterasu's attributes were incorporated by cults whose aims were social transformation. Ironically, in the second half of the Meiji period, Amaterasu's hermaphroditism, the source of power, was effaced from the sphere of "Legitimacy," to remain only in the realm of "Heresy."

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ちなみに「アマテラスは両性具有」説(?)もありますね…https://t.co/Q8vFEyStxI
これからの天皇制を議論する上で、アマテラスへの注視を欠いてはならないのである。 << 以上、「近代天皇制国家におけるアマテラス ──両性具有性のゆくえ── 千葉  慶」https://t.co/Q8vFEyStxIより
@tuyashun 男装をした理由ではないですが、天照の両性具有性についての論文の中に男装について書いてる部分があります。こちらです。 https://t.co/RtyWRCVCVD
J-STAGE Articles - 近代天皇制国家におけるアマテラス https://t.co/rQToIEn4lK 明治から昭和(戦前)にかけて、アマテラスを「どのように扱ったらよいか」と色々試みている試行錯誤が面白い。現状は、独占が半ば維持されている感じかな。

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