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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780824821524
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press - The
Publication Date: 03-01-2000
Pages: 400
Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
About the Author
Author: Varley, Paul; Paul Varley is emeritus professor at Columbia University and Sen Soshitsu XV Professor of Japanese Cultural History at the University of Hawai'i.