Things seen and unseen : discourse and ideology in Tokugawa nativism
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Things seen and unseen : discourse and ideology in Tokugawa nativism
（A Chicago original paperback）
University of Chicago Press, 1988
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Includes bibliographical reference (p. 441-460) and index
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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.
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