Script and scripture: The Kojiki and the problem of writing -- The informing image: "China" in the tale of Genji -- "A bridge across the mountains": Chinese and the aesthetics of the Shinkokinshu -- "Chineseness" and "Japaneseness" in early medieval Zen / Kokan Shiren and Musō Soseki -- Wakan and the development of renga theory in the late fourteenth century / Gido Shushin and Nijo Yoshimoto -- Wakan in literary theory in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Zeami, Shōtetsu, Shinkei and Sogi -- The intellectual contexts of tokugawa aesthetics / Itō Jinsai, Ogyū Sorai, and Genroku Culture.

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