Concealment of Politics, Politics of ConcealmentWhat is "literature?" The answer to this question may seem self evident to us now. However, the production of literature as a category was in fact a very complex historical process that engaged with varying forces of modernity. Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment illuminates the large picture of intellectual, political, and literary culture of 1880s Japan and offers a paradigm shattering discussion of the creation of literature as a