Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies – serie
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Tales of Times Now Past
Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection
Av Marian Ury
Häftad, 1993
285 kr
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Tales of Times Now Past is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from Konjaku monogatari shu, a Japanese anthology dating from the early twelfth century. The original work, unique in world literature, contains more than one thousand systematically arranged tales from India, China, …
Kafu the Scribbler
The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1897–1959
Häftad, 1990
278 kr
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Kafū the Scribbler is neither pure biography nor pure criticism nor yet a pure anthology, but a blending of the three. It is an introduction to Nagai Kafū and his city, accompanied by a fairly generous sampling from his works. Marleigh Ryan writes: “In this book Edward Seidensticker presents a …
Education in Tokugawa Japan
Av R. Dore
Häftad, 1992
254 kr
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“This careful and important study of the development of the varied types of education in the last two and a half centuries of feudalism in Japan under the Tokugawa dictatorship (1600–1868) is more than a history of premodern education. It is also an intellectual history and a history of the …
They Came to Japan
An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640
Häftad, 1995
370 kr
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The Japan accidentally discovered by the Europeans in 1543 was a country torn by internecene wars waged by independent barons who recognised no effective central government and were free to appropriate as many neighbouring fiefs as force of arms and treachery would permit. The Japan which deported …
Victors’ Justice
The Tokyo War Crimes Trial
Häftad, 2001
227 kr
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In the aftermath of the war in the Pacific, the victorious Allies brought to trial Tojo Hideki and twenty-seven other Japanese leaders for “crimes against peace” and “crimes against humanity.” After two and one-half years, the twenty-five surviving defendants were found guilty of most of the …
Christian Converts and Social Protests in Meiji Japan
Häftad, 2002
285 kr
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Nowhere has there been a discussion of the confusion necessarily generated by the rapidity of the change or of the agony created in the lives of many whose attitudes, expectations, and even success depended on the continuance of now abolished institutions. Historians have ignored the settled …
Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow
Our Minamata Disease
Häftad, 2003
307 kr
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In the early 1950s, numerous cases of organic mercury poisoning were discovered in the fishing villages around Minamata, Japan. Yet for decades after, victims of what is now known as Minamata disease suffered neglect, discrimination, and ostracism by Minamata residents, local government, labor …
Okagami, The Great Mirror
Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027) and His Times
Häftad, 1991
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Presented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Ōkagami, a historical tale that mirrors a man’s life and the times in which he lived. Dating from the late eleventh or early twelfth century, it focuses on Fujiwara Michinaga, the leading political figure in the great family …
Literary and Art Theories in Japan
Av Makoto Ueda
Häftad, 1991
370 kr
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Literary and Art Theories in Japan surveys thirteen major aestheticians to uncover what remained important over the course of Japanese history. Rather than take a comprehensive descriptive approach, Makoto Ueda focuses on views of the essential nature of literature and art, considering how people …
Japan
From Prehistory to Modern Times
Av John Hall
Häftad, 1991
331 kr
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Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times has a heavy emphasis upon the premodern period of Japanese history. No attempt has been made to provide the usual kind of textbook completeness. Hall’s fascination with Japanese history lies within the manner in which Japan’s political and social institutions …
Economic Development of Japan
Growth and Structural Change, 1868-1938
Häftad, 1993
247 kr
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The rise of Japan from agrarianism to a position as one of the leading industrial powers is one of the most dramatic and meaningful phenomena in economic history. Professor Lockwood, assistant director of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University, lucidly …
Research in Japanese Sources
A Guide
Häftad, 1994
187 kr
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This book is intended as a beginner’s guide to the subject of Japanese bibliography. It is designed for three kinds of users: (I) the student in some discipline of the humanities or social sciences who wishes to conduct research on Japan and make use of Japanese-language materials; (2) the student …
Personality in Japanese History
Av Albert Craig, Donald H. Shively m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
254 kr
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Like institutions or culture, personality has its own structure, its own forces, and its own impact with the confluence of historical determinants. What a man in shapes his role in an institution just as the demands of the institution mold the personality. The relationship is two-way and dynamic. …
Accomplices of Silence
The Modern Japanese Novel
Häftad, 1996
232 kr
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The Japanese novel, lately so widely translated, is finding a broader and better informed readership than ever before. Until now, however, no comprehensive critical discussion of the form has been available in a Western language. Masao Miyoshi offers an intensive reading of several outstanding …
Tokugawa Ideology
Early Constructs, 1570-1680
Av Herman Ooms
Häftad, 1998
331 kr
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Relying on a broad range of theoretical writings on the problem of ideology the author has formulated their own interpretations of the formation of early Tokugawa ideology. Instead of synthesizing these theoretical approaches, he has worked them into analytical essays that constitute this book. The …
Government and Local Power in Japan, 500-1700
A Study Based on Bizen Province
Av John Hall
Häftad, 1999
254 kr
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This important study of Japan in premodern times, embracing a span of nearly thirteen centuries, is directed toward the illumination of some important elements of continuity in Japanese history. It is an effort to explain through the detailed analysis of a microcosm--the small province of …
Japan in Crisis
Essays on Taisho Democracy
Av Bernard Silberman, H. Harootunian m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
247 kr
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The transition between the reign of the powerful Emperor Meiji and that of his weak successor Taisho was marked by the emergence of a new individualism in Japanese society, a separation of culture and politics that led to the demise of the traditional Japanese self-dedication to the interests of …
Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji
Av Norma Field
Häftad, 2001
284 kr
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A Japanese literary classic and one of the world's earliest novels, the Tale of Genji was written C.E. 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman from an aristocratic family. Norma Field, drawing on her own sensitive reading of Genji and on Japanese and Western scholarship, discusses the social, …
Pictures of the Heart
The <em>Hyakunin Isshu</em> in Word and Image
Häftad, 2015
427 kr
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The Hyakunin Isshu, or One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each collection, is a sequence of one hundred Japanese poems in the tanka form, selected by the famous poet and scholar Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) and arranged, in part, to represent the history of Japanese poetry from the seventh century down …
