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

Peter Flueckiger

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Flueckiger, Peter, 1970

Imagining harmony : poetry, empathy, and community in mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and nativism / Peter Flueckiger.

p. cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . isbn 978 - - 8047 - 6157 - (cloth : alk. paper )

IwouldliketothankfirstofallHaruoShiraneatColumbia,whoencour agedmetopursuepremodernJapaneseliterarystudies,andguidedthis projectateverystage.IalsoreceivedinvaluableguidancefromKurozumi MakotoattheUniversityofTokyo,whosharedhisbroadknowledgeof OgySoraiandTokugawaintellectualhistorythroughhisseminarsand countlesspersonalconversations.MyunderstandingofSoraiisdeeplyin debted aswelltoHiraishiNaoakisrigorousseminarson Bend and Benmei attheUniversityofTokyo.SeminarswithNagashimaHiroaki,attheUni ve rsityofTokyo,andSuzukiJun,attheNationalInstituteforJapanese Literature,contributedtomyknowledgeofeighteenth-centurywakaand literaticulture.IhavelearnedmuchaboutDazaiShundaifrommydiscus sionswithKojimaYasunoriofInternationalChristianUniversity.

TheperspectivesonmodernJapanthatIhavegainedfromPaulAnderer, KarataniKjin,andTomiSuzukihaveinformedmyinterpretationsofhow TokugawaliteratureandthoughtrelatetovariousmodernJapanesepoliti cal ide ologiesandconceptionsofculturalidentity.Iowemuchaswellto MartinKern,PaulRouzer,andWeiShang,whoprovidedthetrainingin ClassicalChineselanguageandliteraturethatmadeitpossibleformeto pursueresearchonChineseliterarythoughtandTokugawaConfucianism.

SinceIcametoPomonaCollegein 2003 , mycolleaguesintheDepart ment ofAsianLanguagesandLiteraturesandtheAsianStudiesProgram haveprovidedasupportiveenvironmentformydevelopmentasateacher andscholar.IamparticularlyindebtedtoSamYamashitafornotonlybeing avaluablementorandcolleague,butalsosharinghisexpertiseonOgy SoraiandTokugawaintellectualhistory,andpainstakinglyreviewingmy entiremanuscript.

acknowledgments

ThecommentsfromthereadersforStanfordUniversityPresswerevery helpfultomeinrevisingmymanuscript.IwouldalsoliketothankCarolyn Brown,StacyWagner,JessicaWalsh,andtheotherstaffatStanfordwho steeredmethroughthepublicationprocess.EileenCheng,AriLevine,Kiri Paramore,andMorganPitelkaallreviewedportionsofthemanuscriptat variousstages,andIamgratefultothemfortheircandidfeedbackandsug gestionsforimprovement.

Portions ofChapters and appearedinThe Shijing inTokugawa

Anc ientLearning,in Mon umenta Serica ( ).PortionsofChap ter appearedinReflectionsontheMeaningofOurCountry:Kamono

Mabuchis Kokuik , in Monumenta Nipponica ,no. (Autumn 2008 ). Iamgratefultotheeditorsfortheirpermissiontousethismaterial.

ResearchonthisprojectinJapanfrom 2000 to 2002 wasfundedbya FulbrightIIEFellowship.Inthesummerof 2004 Iwasabletoconductfur therresearchinJapanthankstoagrantIreceivedthroughPomonaCollege fundedbytheFreemanFoundation.AJapanFoundationShort-TermRe searchFellowshipmadeitpossibleformetoreturntoJapanagaintowork onthisprojectinthesummerof 2006 .