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Before the Nation Asia-Pacific:Culture,Politics,andSociety Editors:ReyChow,H.D.Harootunian,andMasaoMiyoshi a study of the weatherhead east asian institute susan l. burns Before the Nation KokugakuandtheImaginingofCommunity inEarlyModernJapan duke university press DurhamandLondon 2003 ©2003dukeuniversitypress Allrightsreserved.PrintedintheUnitedStatesof Americaonacid-freepaper(cid:4) TypesetinQuadraat byTsengInformationSystems,Inc.LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-PublicationDataappearonthelastprinted pageofthisbook. studiesoftheweatherheadeastasian institute,columbiauniversity TheWeatherheadEastAsianInstituteisColumbia University’scenterforresearch,publication,andteaching onmodernandcontemporaryAsiaPacificregions.TheStudies oftheWeatherheadEastAsianInstitutewereinauguratedin 1962tobringtoawiderpublictheresultsofsignificantnew researchonmodernandcontemporaryEastAsia. ToHannah Contents Acknowledgments • ix Introduction:BetweenCommunityandtheNation • 1 1 LateTokugawaSocietyandtheCrisisofCommunity • 16 2 BeforetheKojikiden:TheDivineAgeNarrativeinTokugawaJapan • 35 3 MotooriNorinaga:DiscoveringJapan • 68 4 UedaAkinari:HistoryandCommunity • 102 5 FujitaniMitsue:ThePoeticsofCommunity • 131 6 TachibanaMoribe:CosmologyandCommunity • 158 7 NationalLiterature,IntellectualHistory,andtheNewKokugaku • 187 Conclusion:ImaginedJapan(s) • 220 Appendix:‘‘Reading’’theKojiki • 227 Notes • 231 WorksCited • 259 Index • 271 Acknowledgments ThisbookhasitsoriginsinaseminarpaperIsubmittedtoProfessorHarry HarootunianandProfessorTetsuoNajitain1986,myfirstyearofgraduate schoolattheUniversityofChicago.DuringthepastsixteenyearsasIhave worked—andattimesstruggled—tocompletethisproject,Ihavebeenre- mindedagainandagainofhowmuchIhavelearnedfromthem.Icontinue tobeprofoundlygratefulforthevitalintellectualcommunitytheycreated attheUniversityofChicagoduringmyyearsthereandforthesupportthey have provided me since then. I am indebted as well to Koyasu Nobukuni, nowProfessorEmeritusofOsakaUniversity.DuringthetwoandhalfyearsI spentatOsakaUniversity,ProfessorKoyasuallowedmetoparticipatefullyin hisgraduateseminar.Heandhisstudents,especiallyMiyagawaYasukoand HiguchiKōzō,madeitpossibleformetoengagewiththekokugakucanonin waysthatwouldnothavebeenpossibleonmyown.WilliamSibleyguided myfirstearlyeffortstoreadNorinaga’swork,whileNaokiSakaipatiently enduredmystumblingearlyeffortstoreadtheworkofFujitaniMitsue. Iowemuchtothecolleaguesandfriendswhocarefullyandcriticallyread themanuscriptinitsmanypostdissertationformsandforcedmetorethink, reformulate,andrefinemyideasandmyprose.TheseincludeLesliePincus, HermanOoms,PeterNosco,andAnneWalthall,aswellasmydearformer colleaguesattheUniversityofTexasatAustin,EdwardRhoads,Margherita Zanasi, and CynthiaTalbot.The members of the Kinsei Shisōshi Kenkyū- kai,basedinKyoto,providedamuchneededforumformetotestoutmy work,andIbenefitedgreatlyfromtheircommentsandsuggestions.Thanks toBarbaraBrooksandSallyHastingsfortheirfriendship,encouragement, andsupport,andtoCarolGluckandMadgeHuntington,whoguidedme throughtheprocesstowardpublication.Iamgratefulaswellforthehelpof ReynoldsSmith,JustinFaerber,andtheothersatDukeUniversityPressfor theirhelpduringthepublicationprocess.
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