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When tengu talk : Hirata Atsutane's ethnography of the other world / Wilburn Hansen.

Title
When tengu talk : Hirata Atsutane's ethnography of the other world / Wilburn Hansen.
Author
Hansen, Wilburn.
Publication
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2008.

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Description
268 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843) has been the subject of numerous studies that focus on his importance to nationalist politics and Japanese intellectual and social history." "His prolific writings on supernatural subjects have never been thoroughly analyzed in English until now. In When Tengu Talk, Wilburn Hansen focuses on Senkyo ibun (1822), a voluminous work centering on Atsutane's interviews with a fourteen-year-old Edo street urchin named Kozo Torakichi who claimed to be an apprentice tengu, a supernatural creature of Japanese folklore." "Hansen's investigation and analysis of the process begins with the hypothesis that Atsutane's project was an early attempt at ethnographic research, a new methodological approach in nineteenth-century Japan. Hansen posits that this "scientific" analysis was tainted by Atsutane's desire to establish a discourse on Japan not limited by what he considered to be the unsatisfactory results of established Japanese philological methods."--BOOK JACKET.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books.
Subject
  • Hirata, Atsutane, 1776-1843
  • Hirata, Atsutane, 1776-1843
  • Takayama, Torakichi, 1806-
  • Geschichte 1822
  • Geschichte 1822
  • Mediums > Japan
  • Kokugaku
  • Japan > Religion
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-257) and index.
Contents
Introduction: A new medium for an old message -- Constructing Japanese identity: Senkyō ibun -- The medium finds a promoter: Torakichi and Atsutane -- Manipulating the medium: separating the sanjin from the tengu -- The critique of China and defense of native culture -- The critique of Buddhism and defense of native religion -- The critique of the west and defense of native knowledge and ability -- Conclusion: The medium is the message.
ISBN
  • 9780824832094 (hard cover : alk. paper)
  • 0824832094 (hard cover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008018603
OCLC
  • 226389367
  • SCSB-13844839
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library