Productions of culture in Japan.
Contributors: Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs ( 1990 : Bloomington, Ind.)
Series: Select papers / Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago -- v. no. 10; Select papers (University of Chicago. Center for East Asian Studies) -- no. 10.
Publisher: Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Yanagita, Kunio, -- 1875-1962.; Japan -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Notes: Versions of papers presented at the 1990 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Class and currency in three works by Yanagi Sōetsu -- Noriko Aso; title: Question of monsters and ancestor worship -- Gerald Figal; title: Fantasy of ancient Japan : the assimilation of Okinawa in Yanagita Kunio's Kainan Shoki -- Alan Christy; title: That which hermeneutics cannot grasp -- Yoshikuni Igarashi; title: Shades of nothingness : the hiatus of rationality in the early thought of Nishida Kitarō and Tanabe Hajime -- Robert W. Adams; title: Locating Tokugawa power : the place of the Nō in early modern Japan -- Thomas Looser; title: Historiography in the margins of modernity : the cultural production of history in Orikuchi folk studies -- Kentaro Tomio; title: Appendix : Open letter to the fourth annual Yanagita Kunio Yukari summit.