From Ise Shrine To Yasukuni Shrine

From the Meiji Restoration to the defeat of Japan in 1945,the way and content of the sacrifices of modern Japan changed.The traditional national sacrifice represented by the Ise Shrine was gradually replaced by the spiritual sacrifice represented by the Yasukuni Shrine.The "Fallen Soldier Spirit" sacrifice centered on the Yasukuni Shrine re-created the content and form of the traditional Shinto sacrifice.The " Fallen Soldier Sacrifice" constructed the meaning of life and death through the mechanism of "excluding" and "showing",generating and solidifying "nationals." Memory,refining and transforming "national sentiment",and finally achieving the maintenance and continuation of "community imagination." In the context of secularization,the national Shinto converted the sacred discourse through the national device of “community sacrifice” and obtained the source of legitimacy of the country.The main body of the article is divided into four parts.The first part mainly investigates the source and specific implementation of the concept of "consistent government" in the early Meiji period,that is,the construction process of the sacred discourse represented by the "Ise " and "Yasukuni Shrine" as the "sacrificial place".The second part mainly examines the changes in religious policies in the process of "secularization" and the "faith shift" under the expansion of war.The third part examines the political function of the state sacrificial and its operational mechanism,that is,how the Meiji government can realize the construction of the imagination of the national community through the mechanism of “showing” and “excluding”.The fourth part deeply inspects the sacrifice by rethinking the essence of the national sacrificial offering.The relationship with modern state construction.