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| Title: |
Nature over nation: Tanaka Shōzō's fundamental river law |
| Author: |
Stolz, Robert |
| Appeared in: |
Japan forum |
| Paging: | Volume 18 (2006) nr. 3 pages 417-437 |
| Year: |
2006-11 |
| Contents: |
This article examines Tanaka Shōzō's fundamental river law (konponteki kasenhō) and the environmental philosophies of doku (poison) and nagare (flow), which Tanaka developed after his famous appeal to the emperor in 1901 and in polemic with the Meiji state's re-engineering of the Watarase and Tone watersheds. Although articulated in a Neo-Confucian vocabulary of principles (ri) and essences (sei) reminiscent of eighteenth-century agronomy and political economy, Tanaka's thought breaks from that tradition in identifying doku as both a conceptual and a historical intervention into the discourse on nature and as the key to understanding Japanese modernity. The result is a discovery of a natural freedom located in the environment and centered on the concept of nagare. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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