Japanese culture / Paul Varley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varley, H. Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Civilization.

Japan.

Civilization.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Fourth edition, updated and expanded.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The emergence of Japanese civilization

The introduction of Buddhism

The court at its zenith

The advent of a new age

The canons of medieval taste

The country unified

The flourishing of a bourgeois culture

Heterodox trends

Encounter with the West

The fruits of modernity

Culture in the present age.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-371) and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Varley, H. Paul. Japanese culture.

ISBN:

058530260X

9780585302607

9780824863081

0824863089

OCLC:

45728338

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.