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The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichu, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichu, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan./
Author:	Foulk, Emi Joanne.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	251 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-01A(E).
Subject:	Asian history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10158427
ISBN:	9781369134353

The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichu, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan.
Foulk, Emi Joanne.

The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichu, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 251 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2016.

This dissertation seeks to reconsider the eighteenth-century kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga's (1730-1801) conceptions of language, and in doing so also reformulate the manner in which we understand early modern kokugaku and its role in Japanese history. Previous studies have interpreted kokugaku as a linguistically constituted communitarian movement that paved the way for the makings of Japanese national identity. My analysis demonstrates, however, that Norinaga---by far the most well-known kokugaku thinker---was more interested in pulling a fundamental ontology out from language than tying a politics of identity into it: grammatical codes, prosodic rhythms, and sounds and their attendant sensations were taken not as tools for interpersonal communication but as themselves visible and/or audible threads in the fabric of the cosmos. Norinaga's work was thus undergirded by a positive understanding of language as ontologically grounded within the cosmos, a framework he borrowed implicitly from the seventeenth-century Shingon monk Keichu (1640-1701) and esoteric Buddhist (mikkyo) theories of language. Through philological investigation into ancient texts, both Norinaga and Keichu believed, the profane dust that clouded (sacred, cosmic) truth could be swept away, as if by a jeweled broom.

ISBN: 9781369134353Subjects--Topical Terms:

1099323
Asian history.

The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichu, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan.
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