Reflections on the Meaning of Our Country: Kamo no Mabuchi's Kokuiko
Abstract/Sommario:
In 1765, when Kamo no Mabuchi (1697-1769) wrote Kokuiko (Reflections on the Meaning of Our Country), he was already an accomplished scholar of the Japanese classics. He was also a prominent poet. Kokuiko is the most ambitious of his essays, presenting an utopian vision of ancient Japan as a society governed in accordance with nature, which was then corrupted by the introduction of foreign philosophies, especially Confucianism. Mabuchi construction of a Japanese cultural identity throug ...; [leggi tutto]
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| Descrizione | Reflections on the Meaning of Our Country: Kamo no Mabuchi's Kokuiko/ Peter Flueckiger |
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IN Per: Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 63, n. 2 (2008 Autumn) p. 211-264
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| ID scheda | 63226 |