Najita, Tetsuo.

Visions of virtue in Tokugawa Japan : the Kaitokudó, Merchant Academy of Osaka / Tetsuo Najita. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 1997. - ix, 334 p. ; 23 cm.

Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-327) and index.

The philosopical environment-- In search of virtue: founding the Kaitokudo-- Between eccentricity and order: History or nature as first principle-- Visions from the academy-- In place of dreams: merchant epistemology in late eighteenth-century Osaka.

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Kaitokudo--History.


Merchants--History.--Japan
Social sciences--History.--Japan
Comerciantes--Historia--Japón
Ciencias Sociales--Historia--Japón


Japan--Intellectual life--1600-1868.
Japón--Vida intelectual--1600-1868
Kaitokudo--Historia

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