Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism

ISBN-13: 9780226317076 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 488 str.

Harry D. Harootunian

Opis

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.