[PDF.95hj] Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power)

During the interwar years in Japan, discourse on culture turned sharply inward after generations of openness to Western ideas. The characterizations that arose—that Japanese culture is unique, essential, and enduring—came to be accepted both inside and outside Japan. Leslie Pincus focuses on the work of Kuki Shuzo, a philosopher and the author of the classic "Iki" no Kozo, to explore culture and theory in Japan during the interwar years. She shows...

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