In this path breaking book, Eiko Ikegami uncovers a complex history of social life in which Aesthetic images became central to Japan\'s cultural identities.
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In so doing, they incorporated the world of the beautiful within their social life which led to new modes of civility.
The people of premodern Japan built on earlier Aesthetic traditions in part for their own sake, but also to find space for self-expression in the increasingly rigid and tightly controlled Tokugawa Political system.
In this path breaking book, Eiko Ikegami uncovers a complex history of social life in which Aesthetic images became central to Japan\'s cultural identities