Japan : a short cultural history / by G. B. Sansom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sansom, George Bailey, Sir, 1883-1965, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Civilization.

Japan.

Japan--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (608 pages) : illustrations,maps

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo, Japan ; Rutland, Vermont ; Singapore, Singapore : Tuttle Publishing, 1931.

Summary:

20 Keywords.

Contents:

Frontcover

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Contents

PART ONE-EARLY HISTORY

I The Origins

II Early Myths and Chronicles

1. Native Tradition and Chinese Notices

2. Native Institutions and Foreign Inter-course

III The Indigenous Cult

IV The Introduction of Chinese Learning

V Cultural Relations with China and the Political Reform of Taikwa

PART TWO-NARA

VI Confucianism and Buddhism

VII Art and Letters

1. The Native Literature

2. Art

VIII Law and Administration

IX A Summary of Political Events in the Nara Period

PART THREE-THE HEIAN PERIOD

X The New Capital and the Provinces

XI The Development of Chinese Institutions on Japanese Soil

XII Religion and the Arts

1. Early Heian Buddhism

2. Chinese Learning

3. The Native Literature

4. Late Heian Buddhism

5. Heian Art

XIII A Summary of Political Events in the Heian Period

1. The Fujiwara Dominance

2. The Rise and Fall of the Taira

PART FOUR-KAMAKURA

XIV The Growth of Feudalism

XV The Hōjō Regents

XVI Religion, Art and Letters

1. Buddhism

2. Art and Letters

PART FIVE-MUROMACHI

XVII The Ashikaga Shōguns

XVIII Religion and the Arts

PART SIX-SENGOKU

XIX The Country at War

1. The Political Scene

2. First Contacts with the West

XX Adzuchi and Momoyama

1. New Feudal Institutions

2. The Cultural Scene

PART SEVEN-YEDO

XXI The Tokugawa Régime

1. The National Policy of Exclusion

2. Administration and Law

3. Economic Conditions

XXII Genroku

XXIII The Breakdown of Feudalism

1. Intellectual Currents

2. Economic Movements

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4629-1674-0

OCLC:

951064973