Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Japan (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series) - Hardcover

Nosco, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674760077 ISBN 13: 9780674760073

Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center, 1990

Synopsis

A tight and clean copy. Occasional pencil underlining and/notes on some pages. Light shelf wear on the dust cover.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This work studies three major eighteenth-century nativist scholars in Japan: Kada no Azumamaro, Kamo no Mabuchi, and the celebrated Motoori Norinaga. Nosco demonstrates that these three, frequently depicted as the formulators of a rabid exenophobic nationalism, were intellectuals engaged in a quest for meaning, wholeness, and solace in what they perceived to be disordered times.

About the Author:

Peter Nosco is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in 18th-Century Japan (1990), Thinking for Oneself: Individuality and Ideology in Early Modern Japan (forthcoming, 2016), and the editor of Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture (1997) and Identity and Individuality in Nineteenth-Century Japan (with James Ketelaar and Kojima Yasunori, forthcoming 2015). He has served as guest editor for special issues of Philosophy East and West and Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0674760077
• ISBN 13: 9780674760073
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 271