Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics Volume 5

by Leslie Pincus

During the interwar years in Japan, discourse on culture turned sharply inward after generations of openness to Western ideas. The characterizations that arose--that Japanese culture is unique, essential, and enduring--came to be accepted both inside and outside Japan. Leslie Pincus focuses on the work of Kuki Shuzo, a philosopher and the author of the classic "Iki" no Kozo, to explore culture and theory in Japan during the interwar years...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520201345
• ISBN13: 9780520201347
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"