Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Japan

by Janine Anderson Sawada

The idea that personal cultivation leads to social and material well-being became widespread in late Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868). Practical Pursuits explores theories of personal development that were diffused in the early nineteenth century by a network of religious groups in the Edo (Tokyo) area, and explains how, after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the leading members of these communities went on to create ideological coalitions inspired by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082482752X
• ISBN13: 9780824827526
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"