A01=Harry D. Harootunian
Author_Harry D. Harootunian
Category=JBSL11
Category=JHM
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226317076
- Weight: 765g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 1988
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
