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Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory: Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism by Yuko Kikuchi
An exceptional work of research and rethinking the assumptions of Mingei scholarship. It's a little heavy on facts at times - this is a work for specialists, not a book for the popular market - and it kept making me think it was starting to lean a little hard on theory (especially post-colonialism and orientalism), but it always avoided that, and got the balance between following established paradigms and approaching things directly, with fresh thought, about right. A genuinely excellent book.