Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Part I. Contexts of Strangeness
5. Chapter 1. Strange Interpretations 3
6. Chapter 2. Contexts of Strangeness in Seventeenth-Century Japan 24
7. Part II. Discourses on Difference in the Eighteenth Century
8. Chapter 3. Strange Tastes Cultural Eccentricity and Its Vanguard 57
9. Chapter 4. Strange Thoughts: A Confluence of Intellectual Heterodoxies 93
10. Chapter 5. Eccentrics of Recent Times and Social Value Biography Reinvents the Eccentric 116
11. Part III. Finishers and Failures of the Nineteenth Century
12. Chapter 6. Strangeness in the Early Nineteenth Century Commercialism, Conservatism, and Diffusion 141
13. Chapter 7. Reevaluating Strangeness in Late Tokugawa 172
14. Notes 203
15. Glossary 237
16. Bibliography 243
17. Index 255
18. About the Author 269