KOKUGAKU. The Japanese intellectual movement known as Kokugaku (Native Learning) includes the Shintō revival that began in the middle of the Edo period (1603–1867). Inspired by the spirit of nationalism, Kokugaku thinkers deplored the...

Kokugaku (Kyūjitai: 國學/Shinjitai: 国学; lit. National study or Japanology) was a school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Tokugawa period. Kokugaku scholars tended to relativatize the study of Chinese and Buddhist texts...

Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan, by Susan L. Burns. Asia-Pacific series. A Weatherhead Study of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2003. x, 282 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95...

SUSAN L. BURNS. Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. x +282 pages. Appendix, bibliography, index. Paper US$23.95; ISBN 0-8223-3172-1....