Future Perfect: Tolstoy and the Structures of Agrarian-Buddhist Utopianism in Taisho Japan

This study focuses on the role played by the work of Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) in shaping socialism and agrarian-Buddhist utopianism in Japan. As Japanese translations of Tolstoy's fiction and philosophy, and accounts of his life became more available at the end of the 19th century, his ideas on...

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Main Author: Shields, James Mark 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 5, Pages: 1-12
Further subjects:B Tokutomi Roka (1868-1927)
B Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
B Utopianism
B Violence
B Japanese Buddhism
B agrarian way of life
B nonresistance
B Nonviolence
B Mushakoji Saneatsu (1885-1976)
B Eto Tekirei (1880-1944)
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