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Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism

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Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism - Harootunian, Harry D
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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 ...

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Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism 1988, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226317076

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