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The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema by Daisuke Miyao (review)

also demonstrates an excellent grasp of the Japanese scholarship on tea by Kumakura Isao, Tanihata Akio, and others. In conclusion, this well-informed and eloquent work is an outstanding example of the interdisciplinary scholarship on nationalism sought by the aforementioned Anthony Smith. Furthermore, it addresses Dipesh Chakrabarty’s call for national histories of “embodied practices” and “the cultural training of the senses.”1 Such embodied, cultural histories complement the more dominant intellectual and social accounts of Japanese modernity and are necessary for investigating why and how Japan’s international identity is so often imagined in affective and cultural terms. While I have few criticisms of this work, there are two intriguing topics mentioned in passing that merit greater attention and future research: first, tea training and discourse in the colonies of imperial Japan and, second, the modern relationship between tea and Zen, both of which are equally powerful tropes of Japaneseness worldwide. This work will be of great interest not only to Japan specialists, but also to all students and scholars of cultural nationalism and critical heritage studies.