Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism - Hardcover

by Peter Flueckiger (Author)

Imagining Harmony explores the diverse roles that poetry played for eighteenth-century Japanese intellectuals as an embodiment of human emotion, a form of linguistic and philological training, and a means for accessing the ancient cultures that they turned to as the source of their political ideals.

Author Biography

Peter Flueckiger is Associate Professor of Japanese at Pomona College.