Proving the way
Subtitle: conflict and practice in the history of Japanese nativism.
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs ;; 245
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Hirata, Atsutane, 1776-1843.; Kokugaku.; Japan -- Intellectual life -- 1600-1868.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-275) and index.
Author: Mark McNally. Cf. ECIP t.p. plus.
Table of contents: title: The ascendancy of Hirata Atsutane and the invention of kokugaku; title: The formation of rival nativist schools : the Edo-ha and the Norinaga school; title: The Norinaga school in Edo; title: The sandaikō debate : mythology, astronomy and eschatology; title: On a dream and a prayer : Atsutane's discourse of succession and the invention of a new nativist tradition; title: Forsaking textualism : ancient history and the supernatural; title: Bakumatsu kokugaku and the Hirata school; title: Conclusion : centrality at the margins.