ISBN: 9780870404030 - guides to japanese culture (8 Ergebnisse)

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Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. JAPAN-This smallish hardcover is FINE in a FINE DJ. 209pp. white w/green lettering 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0.0.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Sehr gut. 209 p.: Maps. Lediglich der Schutzumschlag ist etwas berieben und bestoßen. Sonst aber ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the dust jacket is a bit rubbed and bumped. But otherwise a good and clean copy. - What were Japan's climate and geography like ten thousand years ago, and how did they influence the inhabitants of these islands? How was the Japanese language formed, and what features make it unique? What is the true nature of the deep-rooted Shinto and Buddhist beliefs underlying so much of Japanese life, and how do they function? What is the real meaning of the Japanese reverence for nature? Of so-called ancestor worship? Of Zen? What are the major ideas of those thinkers who, like Nishida Kitaro, have knit these elements into original philosophical systems? What is the nature of Japanese society and interpersonal relations? What are the salient features of Japan's history, her literature, her arts? And finally, how do the Japanese perceive the West and the world as a whole? This unique and invaluable book answers such questions by presenting succinct yet thorough summaries of and commentaries on forty-five key works by leading modern Japanese thinkers and scholars. Guides to Japanese Culture is at once an introduction to Japanese culture and a compendium of representative modern Japanese scholarship that has been largely inaccessible until now except to the relatively few who read Japanese. And for those who do read Japanese, the book is a bibliographical guide to further exploration of Japanese culture, whatever one's major interest may be. Guides to Japanese Culture is designed to serve two major functions. One is, of course, to provide an authoritative overview of Japanese culture in all its major aspects, as perceived by the Japanese themselves. But the other, and no less important, function is to demonstrate how a knowledge and appreciation of a foreign culture can point the way to a reappraisal of one's own culture from a fresh perspective and can further deepen one's understanding of the many cultural constellations that comprise the world of mankind. The forty-five representative works abstracted in this book have been carefully selected from among hundreds of candidates by the editorial staff of the Japan Culture Institute under the supervision of the noted writer and critic Murakami Hyôe, while the English translations have been edited by Professor Edward G. Seidensticker of the University of Michigan, an eminent translator in his own right. CONTENTS: I Land and People Nature in Japan A Treatise on Japanese Culture The Laurisylvan Culture ro The Forgotten Japan In Search of the Common Man II Language Language and Culture The Logic of Japanese The Origin of the Japanese Language III Spiritual Life The Japanese Festival The Concept of Hell Zen and Japanese Culture Ancestor Worship Japanese Folk Beliefs IV Intellectual Tradition The Way of Thinking of the Japanese People Anatomy of the Japanese Consciousness 16. Indigenous Thought of Japan The Intellectual Tradition in Japan V Social Relations Interpersonal Relationships in a Vertical Society The Structure of Amae VI Literature The World of The Manydshu The Tale of Genji 93 Japanese Literature and the Sense of Impermanence Obligation and Sentiment Basho: His Life and Art VII Autobiography The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi Half of My Life. Flower of the Moorlands My Shanghai Period Mounted Nomadic Peoples The Asuka and Nara Periods Heian Nobility Kamakura Shogunate. The Age of Gekokujo -b. The Period of Civil War The Tokugawa Period Modern Japanese Political History, Vol. 1 IX The Arts Characteristics of Japanese Art The Japanese Rural Dwelling The World of the Japanese Performing Arts Zeami The World of Kurosawa Akira X Comparative Studies Climate The Meat-Eating Philosophy A Historical View of the Ecology of Civilization Mozart About the Authors The Map of Japan. ISBN 9780870404030 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450.…

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Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Tear to jacket crown at front panel. Sunning to jacket at spine.; 8.35 X 6.06 X 0.79 inches; 209 pages.

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Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. First printing. Pages and page edges yellowed. Tight binding. Covers and spine in very good condition. (Japan, Culture and customs).