num_pages: 508
description: This long-awaited work explores the place of kokugaku (rendered here as "nativism") during Japan's Tokugawa period. Kokugaku , the sense of a distinct and sacred Japanese identity, appeared in the eighteenth century in reaction to the pervasive influence of Chinese culture on Japan. Against this influence, nativists sought a Japanese sense of difference grounded in folk tradition, agricultural values, and ancient Japanese religion. H. D. Harootunian treats nativism as a discourse and shows how it functioned ideologically in Tokugawa Japan.
language: English
title: Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism
titlecomplete: Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism
genres: Japan
ratings_count: 10
publisher: University of Chicago Press