Preliminary Material
The Ascendancy of Hirata Atsutane and the Invention of Kokugaku
The Formation of Rival Nativist Schools: The Edo-ha and the Norinaga School
The Norinaga School in Edo
The Sandaikō Debate: Mythology, Astronomy, and Eschatology
On a Dream and a Prayer: Atsutane's Discourse of Succession and a New Nativist Tradition
Forsaking Textualism: Ancient History and the Supernatural
Bakumatsu Kokugaku and the Hirata School
Centrality at the Margins
Twentieth-Century Ethnology and Nationalism
Character List
Works Cited
Index
Harvard East Asian Monographs.