Brecher, W. Puck. <br/><br/>
The aesthetics of strangeness :  eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan / 
W. Puck Brecher. 
 - 1 online resource (282 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780824839123 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868.<br/>Eccentrics and eccentricities--Japan.<br/>Aesthetics, Japanese--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>N7353.6.E33  / B74 2013eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>709.52