The aesthetics of strangeness :

Brecher, W. Puck.

The aesthetics of strangeness : eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan / W. Puck Brecher. - 1 online resource (282 pages)

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.

9780824839123 (e-book)


Art, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Japan.
Aesthetics, Japanese--History.


Electronic books.

N7353.6.E33 / B74 2013eb

709.52