Japan : an attempt at interpretation / by Lafcadio Hearn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904

Contributor:

Milton Mausner Collection of Lafcadio Hearn (University of Pennsylvania)

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Civilization.

Japan.

Civilization.

Penn Provenance:

Mausner, Milton A., Estate of (donor) (Mausner Collection copy)

Mausner, Milton A., 1918-2012 (former owner) (Mausner Collection copy)

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 498 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Rutland, Vermont ; Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle Company, [1955]

Contents:

Difficulties

Strangeness and charm

The ancient cult

Religion of the home

The Japanese family

Communal cult

Developments of Shintō

Worship and purification

The rule of the dead

The introduction of Buddhism

The higher Buddhism

The social organization

The rise of the military power

The religion of loyalty

The Jesuit peril

Feudal integration

The Shintō revival

Survivals

Modern restraints

Official education

Industrial danger

Reflections.

Notes:

"Dust-jacket design by M. Kuwata."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-488) and index.

Local Notes:

Mausner Collection copy imperfect: p. 183-186 wanting, with a second copy of p. 171-174 bound in their place.

Mausner Collection copy has some ms. underlines in pencil or red pencil in text; a few ms. notes in red pencil in text.

Mausner Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by the estate of Milton A. Mausner.

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok May 1956".

Potok Collection copy is "Soft-Cover Edition".

OCLC:

175022