The Cambridge history of Japan. Volume 1, Ancient Japan / Edited by Delmer M. Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Delmer M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--History--To 794.

Japan.

Japan--Social life and customs.

Japan--Religion--To 1185.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 602 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Summary:

Japan's ancient age was a period of radical and political change during which a Chinese-style empire emerged. This volume of The Cambridge History of Japan spans the beginnings of human existence to the end of the eighth century, focusing on the thousand years between 300 BC and 784, the end of the fabulous Nara period. The volume explores this period in four stages: (1) The Yayoi period (to about AD 250) when small kingdoms and kingdom federations accumulated enough power to dispatch diplomatic missions to Korea and China; (2) the Yamato period (to 587) when priestly rulers, having gained economic and military power, conquered most of Japan; (3) the Century of Reform (to 710) when Japanese leaders, pressed by China's expanding T'ang empire, set out to build a strong Chinese-style empire of their own; (4) the Nara period (to 784) when spectacular literary, artistic, architectural, and religious advances were made.

Contents:

Introduction / Delmer M. Brown

The earliest societies in Japan / J. Edward Kidder, Jr.

The Yamato kingdom / Delmer M. Brown

The century of reform / Inoue Mitsusada and Delmer M. Brown

The Nara state / Naoki Kōjirō and Felicia G. Bock

Japan and the continent / Okazaki Takashi and Janet Goodwin

Early kami worship / Matsumae Takeshi and Janet Goodwin

Early Buddha worship / Sonoda Kōyū and Delmer M. Brown

Nara economic and social institutions / Torao Toshiya and William Wayne Farris

Asuka and Nara Culture: literacy, literature, and music / Edwin A. Cranston

The early evolution of historical consciousness / Delmer M. Brown.

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ISBN:

9781139055062 (ebook)

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