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- Japanese Culture
- Book
- 2000
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Author’s Notes
- p. xiii
- 2 The Introduction of Buddhism
- pp. 19-47
- 3 The Court at Its Zenith
- pp. 48-76
- 4 The Advent of a New Age
- pp. 77-90
- 5 The Canons of Medieval Taste
- pp. 91-139
- 6 The Country Unified
- pp. 140-163
- 7 The Flourishing of a Bourgeois Culture
- pp. 164-204
- 8 Heterodox Trends
- pp. 205-234
- 9 Encounter with the West
- pp. 235-270
- 10 The Fruits of Modernity
- pp. 271-303
- 11 Culture in the Present Age
- pp. 304-351
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 367-371
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824863081
Related ISBN(s)
9780824822927
MARC Record
OCLC
45728338
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No