Alberto Zizza

Haga Yaichi (1867-1927) was a scholar of literature and kokugaku , who significantly contributed to creating the national literary canon in the Meiji period. In 1907, at a time of national glorification that followed the triumph over Russia, but also one of social unrest epitomised by the 1905 Hibiya riots, he published Kokuminsei jūron [Ten essays on national character],...