The people and culture of Japan : conversations between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro / translated by Tony Gonzalez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996, interviewee, author of preface.

Uemura, Yōkō, author of introduction.

Contributor:

Keene, Donald, interviewee, author of preface.

Gonzalez, Tony, translator.

Series:

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

Japan library

Standardized Title:

Nihonjin to Nihon bunka. English

日本人と日本文化 English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996.

Keene, Donald.

Keene, Donald--Interviews.

Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996--Interviews.

Shiba, Ryōtarō.

Japan--Social life and customs.

Japan.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

colophon title : (Eibunban) Nihonjin to Nihon bunka

colophon title : (英文版) 日本人と日本文化

Place of Publication:

Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2016.

Summary:

"The People and Culture of Japan features conversations between Donald Keene, a preeminent scholar of Japanese literature, and Shiba Ryotaro, the author who continued to contemplate the human condition through his original and distinctive lens of history. These talks-which mainly explore the foundations of Japanese culture-took place in Japanese on three occasions in 1971, in the historic cities of Nara, Kyoto, and Osaka. Drawing on their profound insights into Japan's relations with foreign cultures over the course of Japanese history, the two engage in a passionate discussion of their first-hand impressions and observations of Japanese culture." from back cover

Contents:

The birth of Japanese culture

Kukai, Ikkyu, and the University of Religion

The world of gold, the world of silver: the aesthetics of troubled times

The Japanese view of war

Confucianism and Japanese morals

Westerners in Japan

Japanese morals, revisited

The culture of Edo.

Notes:

Includes index.

"This book is a complete translation of 'Nihonjin to nihonbunka' from 'The Collected Works of Donald Keene, Vol.9 ; Donarudo kiin chosakushu dai 9 kan: sekai no naka no nihonbunka' (Shinchosa Publishing Co., Ltd., 2013), which is also in print since its original publication in 1972 as a book published by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc." -- title verso.

Foreword by Uemura Yoko.

Prefaces by Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro.

ISBN:

9784916055576

4916055578

OCLC:

945948564