Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Asia-Pacific)

by SusanL.Burns (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $36.05

  Departing from earlier studies of kokugaku (which means the study of our country ), this title considers how three of the more marginalized participants in the movement challenged its principal founder and engaged its fundamental concerns about what defines the Japanese nation and unifies those within it.