The eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan Brecher, W. Puck. creator text bibliography Electronic books. hiu 2013 monographic eng 1 online resource (282 pages) 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. W. Puck Brecher. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-ja--- Art, Japanese Edo period, 1600-1868 Eccentrics and eccentricities Japan Aesthetics, Japanese History N7353.6.E33 B74 2013eb 709.52 Brecher, W. Puck. Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, [2013] ix, 267 pages (HU)3438686 (DLC) 2012048353 9780824839123 (e-book) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10764688 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10764688 CaPaEBR 121130 ebr10764688 eng