Spirits and identity in nineteenth-century Northeastern Japan : Hirata Kokugaku and the Tsugaru disciples

While previous research on kokugaku, or nativism, has explained how intellectuals imagined the singular community of Japan, this study sheds light on how posthumous disciples of Hirata Atsutane based in Tsugaru juxtaposed two “countries”—their native Tsugaru and Imperial Japan—as they transitioned f...

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Main Author: Fujiwara, Gideon
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44265