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
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 03/01/2000
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780824821524
4th Updated and Exp Edition