Friends, Acquaintances, Pupils and Patrons

ISBN: 9789087280017 出版年：2006 页码：318 Beerens, A Leiden University Press

This study of the social circumstances of Japanese intellectuals in the last quarter of the eighteenth century is based on biographical data concerning 173 individuals. It deals with the image of intellectual life of that period in current scholarship, and with the self-image and ethos of scholars, authors, poets and artists. That self-image and ethos, however, often clash with the realities of their everyday lives.