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Japanese Culture
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English
Published/Copyright:
2000
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For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous topics, among which are samurai values, Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony, Confucianism in the Tokugawa period, the story of the forty-seven ronin, Mito scholarship in the early nineteenth century, and mass culture and comics in contemporary times.
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Contributor: Paul Varley
Author: Varley, Paul;
Paul Varley is emeritus professor at Columbia University and Sen Soshitsu XV Professor of Japanese Cultural History at the University of Hawai'i.
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This is a masterpiece of much in little space. It neatly surveys over 2,000 years of the arts, religion, and cultural peculiarities (e.g., the tea ceremony) of one of the most cultivated of nations. It leaves virtually no major individual, religious sect, genre and style of visual art, form of literary expression, variety of theater, or influence of extra-Japanese origin unconsidered. It nonetheless admirably retains its focus, ignoring the temptation to relate history that doesn't impinge on cultural developments. What's more, Varley writes superbly lucid prose. . . . A superior one-volume introduction to Japanese culture.
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Though many books on Japanese culture have appeared in recent years, none has yet matched Varley's for the combined breadth and depth of detail and for his skill at conjuring up the zeitgeist of each period of Japanese history.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Major Periods and Cultural Epochs of Japanese History
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Chinese Dynasties since the Time of Unification under the Han
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Author’s Notes
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1. The Emergence of Japanese Civilization
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2. The Introduction of Buddhism
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3. The Court at Its Zenith
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4. The Advent of a New Age
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5. The Canons of Medieval Taste
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6. The Country Unified
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7. The Flourishing of a Bourgeois Culture
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8. Heterodox Trends
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9. Encounter with the West
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10. The Fruits of Modernity
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11. Culture in the Present Age
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Notes
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Glossary
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Selected Bibliography
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Index
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About the Author
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March 1, 2000
eBook ISBN:
9780824863081
Edition:
4th edition
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eBook ISBN:
9780824863081
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
