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Title: Sources of Japanese Tradition
Condition: New
EAN: 9780231121392
ISBN: 9780231121392
Edition: second edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 10/04/2002
Item Height: 155mm
Item Length: 234mm
Contributor: Carol Gluck (Edited by), Arthur Tiedemann (Edited by), Wm. Theodore De Bary (Edited by)
Language: English
Subtitle: From Earliest Times to 1600
ISBN-10: 0231121393
Description: Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this long-awaited second edition, the editors have revised or retranslated most of the texts in the original 1958 edition, and added a great many selections not included or translated before. They have also restructured volume 1 to span the period from the early Japanese chronicles to the end of the sixteenth century. New additions include: * readings on early and medieval Shinto and on the tea ceremony, * readings on state Buddhism and Chinese political thought influential in Japan, and * sections on women's education, medieval innovations in the uses of history, and laws and precepts of the medieval warrior houses. Together, the selections shed light on the development of Japanese civilization in its own terms, without reference to Western parallels, and will continue to assist generations of students and lay readers in understanding Japanese culture.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Book Series: Introduction to Asian Civilizations
Topic: Society & Culture
Author: Arthur Tiedemann
Release Year: 2002

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