Culture and Identity

• *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Preface, pg. vii*Introduction, pg. 3*1. Abe Jiro and The Diary of Santaro, pg. 7*2. Kurata Hyakuzo and The Origins of Love and Understanding, pg. 22*3. Taisho Culture and the Problem of Gender Ambivalence, pg. 37*Introduction, pg. 59*4. Sociology and Socialism in the Interwar Period, pg. 61*5. Tsuchida Kyoson and the Sociology of the Masses, pg. 83*6. Disciplinizing Native Knowledge and Producing Place: Yanagita Kunio, Origuchi Shinobu, Takata Yasuma, pg. 99*Introduction, pg. 131*7. Marxism Addresses the Modern: Nakano Shigeharu's Reproduction of Taisho Culture, pg. 133*8. "Credo Quia Absurdum": Tenko and the Prisonhouse of Language, pg. 154*9. Ikkoku Shakai-shugi: Sano Manabu and the Limits of Marxism as Cultural Criticism, pg. 168*Introduction, pg. 189*10. Nitobe Inazo: From World Order to Regional Order, pg. 191*11. A Vast and Grave Task: Interwar Buddhist Studies as an Expression of Japan's Envisioned Global Role, pg. 217*12. A Turning in Taisho: Asia and Europe in the Early Writings of Watsuji Tetsuro, pg. 234*Introduction, pg. 259*13. Kuki Shuzo and The Structure of lki, pg. 261*14. Natsume Soseki and the Development of Modern Japanese Art, pg. 273*15. Yugen and Erhabene: Onishi Yoshinori's Attempt to Synthesize Japanese and Western Aesthetics, pg. 282*Contributors, pg. 301*Index, pg. 303

"The aptly titled Culture and Identity is a fascinating and important volume covering a period in Japanese history that has only recently begun to receive in English the scholarly treatment it so thoroughly deserves."--Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies