Future Perfect: Tolstoy and the Structures of Agrarian-Buddhist Utopianism in Taishō Japan

This study focuses on the role played by the work of Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) in shaping socialism and agrarian-Buddhist utopianism in Japan. As Japanese translations of Tolstoy’s fiction and philosophy, and accounts of his life became more available at the end of the 19th century...

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Main Author: James Mark Shields
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-05-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/5/161