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Self and the City: Two Recent Studies of Nagai Kafū - A Sense of the City: Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879–1959). By Gala Maria Follaco. Leiden: Brill, 2017. xi, 251 pp. ISBN: 9789004345379 (cloth). - Nagai Kafū’s Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self. By Rachael Hutchinson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. ix, 289 pp. ISBN: 9781438439068 (paper).

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A Sense of the City: Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879–1959). By Gala Maria Follaco. Leiden: Brill, 2017. xi, 251 pp. ISBN: 9789004345379 (cloth).
Nagai Kafū’s Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self. By Rachael Hutchinson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. ix, 289 pp. ISBN: 9781438439068 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2019

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 78 , Issue 4 , November 2019 , pp. 925 - 929
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