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| The exhibition, like [[World's Fairs]] and other international exhibitions, was an opportunity for the [[Meiji government]] to show the world how modern Japan was, and to press for greater acceptance as a great power of the world. The Japanese displays included examples of Japanese craft, sports, entertainment, music, and so forth. | | The exhibition, like [[World's Fairs]] and other international exhibitions, was an opportunity for the [[Meiji government]] to show the world how modern Japan was, and to press for greater acceptance as a great power of the world. The Japanese displays included examples of Japanese craft, sports, entertainment, music, and so forth. |
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| + | The exhibition included a recreation of an [[Ainu]] village, in the human zoo fashion which was popular at the time at World's Fairs and other such imperial expositions around the world, as well as an Irish village, displaying Irish people and Irish culture alongside the Ainu and others as colonized peoples.<ref>'Two Moments in the Modern Age: Cultural Relations Between Japan and Europe', Professor Paul Greenhalgh, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Ishibashi Lectures, University of Tokyo, 2013.</ref> |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
| *"[http://artdaily.com/news/76267/Magnificent-1-10-scale-model-of-lost-Japanese-architectural-treasure-returns-to-Tokyo#.VNZSwy5vBt2 Magnificent 1:10 scale model of lost Japanese architectural treasure returns to Tokyo]," artdaily.com, 7 Feb 2015. | | *"[http://artdaily.com/news/76267/Magnificent-1-10-scale-model-of-lost-Japanese-architectural-treasure-returns-to-Tokyo#.VNZSwy5vBt2 Magnificent 1:10 scale model of lost Japanese architectural treasure returns to Tokyo]," artdaily.com, 7 Feb 2015. |
| *"[https://www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/magnificent-model-of-japanese-architectural-treasure-returns-to-tokyo Magnificent model of Japanese architectural treasure returns to Tokyo]," British Embassy of Tokyo, 5 Feb 2015. | | *"[https://www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/magnificent-model-of-japanese-architectural-treasure-returns-to-tokyo Magnificent model of Japanese architectural treasure returns to Tokyo]," British Embassy of Tokyo, 5 Feb 2015. |
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| [[Category:Meiji Period]] | | [[Category:Meiji Period]] |
| [[Category:Events and Incidents]] | | [[Category:Events and Incidents]] |