Proving the Way: Conflict and Practice in the History of Japanese Nativism

by Mark McNally

Kokugaku, or nativism, was one of the most important intellectual movements from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century in Japan, and its worldview continues to be influential today. This scholarly endeavor represented an attempt to use Japanese antiquity to revitalize what many saw as a society in decline. One important figure in this movement was Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843), a center of controversy in his own lifetime. Even though...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674017781
• ISBN13: 9780674017788
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"