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9780824809270

Japanese Culture

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  • ISBN13:

    9780824809270

  • ISBN10:

    0824809270

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1984-08-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Summary

This volume is a masterpiece of much in little space. It neatly surveys over 2,000 years of the arts, religion, and cultural peculiarities of one of the most cultivated nations.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Major Periods and Cultural Epochs of Japanese History x
Chinese Dynasties Since the Time of Unification Under the Han xi
Author's Notes xiii
The Emergence of Japanese Civilization
1(16)
The Introduction of Buddhism
17(28)
The Court at Its Zenith
45(27)
The Advent of a New Age
72(11)
The Canons of Medieval Taste
83(41)
The Country Unified
124(22)
The Flourishing of a Bourgeois Culture
146(35)
Heterodox Trends
181(22)
Encounter with the West
203(35)
The Fruits of Modernity
238(29)
Culture in the Present Age
267(42)
Notes 309(6)
Glossary 315(4)
Selected Bibliography of English-Language Books Consulted 319(4)
Index 323

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