| Japanese Culture: 4th Pa Updated and Exp Edition Contributor(s): Varley, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0824821521 ISBN-13: 9780824821524 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2000 Annotation: Japanese Culture has been called "a masterpiece of much in little space" (Booklist). For more than two decades it has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Japan - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 952 |
| LCCN: 99057345 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Varley, Paul: - Author: Varley, Paul; |