Japanese Culture: 4th Pa

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.

Author: Paul Varley
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 03/01/2000
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780824821524
ISBN10: 0824821521
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia | Japan
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social