Katsuya Hirano: 1 book
The Politics of Dialogic Imagination
Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—including fashion, leisure activities,...
