Things seen and unseen : discourse and idealogy in Tokugawa nativism / H.D. Harootunian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harootunian, Harry D., 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Intellectual life--1600-1868.

Japan.

Intellectual life.

Kokugaku.

Physical Description:

xii, 494 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Summary:

This long-awaited work explores the place of "kokugaku" (rendered here as "nativism") during Japan's Tokugawa period. "Kokugaku," the sense of a distinct and sacred Japanese identity, appeared in the eighteenth century in reaction to the pervasive influence of Chinese culture on Japan. Against this influence, nativists sought a Japanese sense of difference grounded in folk tradition, agricultural values, and ancient Japanese religion. H. D. Harootunian treats nativism as a discourse and shows how it functioned ideologically in Tokugawa Japan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0226317064 :

0226317072

OCLC:

16278108