Sources of Japanese Tradition: 1600 to 2000

Sources of Japanese Tradition: 1600 to 2000
ISBN-10
0231518056
ISBN-13
9780231518055
Series
Sources of Japanese Tradition
Category
History
Pages
520
Language
English
Published
2002-04-10
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Authors
Wm. Theodore De Bary, Carol Gluck, Arthur Tiedemann

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.

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