Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Note on Transliteration xv
6. 1. Introduction: The Trouble with Nature 1
7. 2. The Topographical Imagination of Tokugawa Politics 32
8. 3. Early Meiji’s Contentious Natures 60
9. 4. Katō Hiroyuki: Turning Nature into Time 84
10. 5. Baba Tatsui: Natural Laws and Willful Natures 111
11. 6. Ueki Emori: Singing the Body Electric 133
12. 7. The Acculturation of Japanese Nature 158
13. 8. Ultranational Nature: Dead Time and Dead Space 179
14. 9. Conclusion: Natural Freedom 209
15. Index 227