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Sources of Japanese Tradition: 1600 to 2000: From Earliest Times to 1600: v. 1 2nd Edition
Author(s): William Theodore De Bary (Compiler), Donald Keene (Compiler), George Tanabe (Compiler), Paul Varley (Compiler)
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication Date: 1 April 2002
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 546 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780231121392
- ISBN-13: 9780231121392
Book Description
* readings on early and medieval Shinto and on the tea ceremony,
* readings on state Buddhism and Chinese political thought influential in Japan, and
* sections on women's education, medieval innovations in the uses of history, and laws and precepts of the medieval warrior houses.
Together, the selections shed light on the development of Japanese civilization in its own terms, without reference to Western parallels, and will continue to assist generations of students and lay readers in understanding Japanese culture.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The long awaited second edition, with new contributions reflecting who's who in the field, adds new readings and revisions for a more balanced perspecitve... Sources lives again as a useful introduction that "lets the Japanese speak for themselves."-- "Religious Studies Review"
About the Author
Carol Gluck is the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period.
Arthur Tiedemann is a member of the Society of Senior Scholars at the Heyman Centre for the Humanities, Columbia University. He is the author of Modern Japan: A Brief History.
