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Shinto and Japanese Religion

Before the Nation

Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan

by Susan L. Burns

A study of how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century readers of Motoori Norinaga's Kojiki commentary produced rival visions of a Japanese community. Burns shows that the idea of a national identity was contested and plural long before the Meiji state.

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