TY - BOOK AU - Brecher,W.Puck ED - Project Muse. TI - The aesthetics of strangeness: eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan SN - 9780824839123 AV - N7353.6.E33 B74 2013 U1 - 709.52 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Honolulu PB - University of Hawaiʻi Press KW - Aesthetics, Japanese KW - History KW - Eccentrics and eccentricities KW - Japan KW - Art, Japanese KW - Edo period, 1600-1868 KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: strange interpretations -- Contexts of strangeness in 17th century Japan -- Cultural eccentricity and its vanguard -- Strange thoughts: a confluence of intellectual heterodoxies -- Kinsei kijinden and social value: biography reinvents the eccentric -- Strangeness in the early 19th century: commercialism, conservatism, and diffusion -- Reevaluating strangeness in late Tokugawa UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780824839123/ ER -