Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism - Softcover

Harootunian, Harry D. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226317072 ISBN 13: 9780226317076

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1988

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Harry Harootunian is the Max Palevsky Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Chicago and an adjunct senior scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. He is the author of Marx after Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capital and, most recently, Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History.

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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 of 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226317072
• ISBN 13: 9780226317076
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 508