Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Nature, Culture, and Society in Confucian Literary Thought: Chinese Traditions and Their Early Tokugawa Reception -- 2. The Confucian Way as Cultural Transformation: Ogyū Sorai -- 3. Poetry and the Cultivation of the Confucian Gentleman: The Literary Thought of Ogyū Sorai -- 4. The Fragmentation of the Sorai School and the Crisis of Authenticity: Hattori Nankaku and Dazai Shundai -- 5. Kamo no Mabuchi and the Emergence of a Nativist Poetics -- 6. Motoori Norinaga and the Cultural Construction of Japan -- Epilogue -- Character List -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.