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Author Fujiwara, Gideon, author.

Title From country to nation : ethnographic studies, kokugaku, and spirits in nineteenth-century Japan / Gideon Fujiwara
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Cornell East Asia series ; number 204
Cornell East Asia series ; 204.
Contents Seeing the "country" of Tsugaru in northeastern Japan -- Visions of Japan and other "countries" in the world -- Hirata kokugaku and the national network -- The academy and the Tsugaru disciples -- Locating Tsugaru within sacred Japan -- Sacred mountain, landscape, and afterlife -- Supporting the restoration in war and ritual -- Modern society and the Tsugaru disciples -- Ethnography, dokugaku, and community in modern Japan
Summary "This book tracks the emergence of the modern Japanese nation in the nineteenth century through the history of some of its local aspirants. It explores how kokugaku (Japan studies) scholars envisioned their place within Japan and the globe, while living in a castle town and domain far north of the political capital"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Kokugaku and Nationalism, Northeast Japan and the Meiji Restoration, Multilayered identities in Japan, Tsugaru domain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 05, 2021)
Subject Kokugaku -- History -- 19th century
Communities -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
Spirituality -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
Communities
Intellectual life
Kokugaku
Politics and government
Spirituality
SUBJECT Tsugaru Region (Japan) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Japan -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Subject Japan
Japan -- Tsugaru Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020050828
ISBN 9781501753954
1501753959
9781501753947
1501753940