Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan - Susan L Burns - Google Books

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Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination of the late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our…