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Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture

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In this book, Eiko Ikegami uncovers a complex history of social life in which aesthetic images became central to Japan's cultural identities. The people of premodern Japan built on earlier aesthetic traditions in part for their own sake, but also to find space for self-expression in the increasingly rigid and tightly controlled Tokugawa political system. In so doing, they incorporated the world of the beautiful within their social life which led to new modes of civility. They explored horizontal and voluntary ways of ...

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Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture 2005, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521601153

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Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture 2005, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521809429

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