Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Whereas many history textbooks tend to treat culture, gender and aesthetics as an afterthought, the author of
Japan: History and Culture asserts their integral importance to Japanese history . . . an entertaining and concise textbook for university undergraduate and postgraduate history teachers or senior high school students." * New Voices in Japanese Studies *
"A welcome companion for anyone wanting to start learning about Japanese cultural tradition and practices throughout the centuries." * H-Soz-Kult *
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Early Japan
2. Forging a Centralized State (550–794)
3. The Rule of Taste: Lives of Heian Aristocrats (794–1185)
4. The Rise and Rule of the Warrior Class (12th–15th centuries)
5. Disintegration and Reunification (1460s–early 1600s)
6. Maintaining Control: Tokugawa Official Culture (1603–1850s)
7. Edo Popular Culture: The Floating World and Beyond (late 17th to mid-19th centuries)
8. Facing and Embracing the West (1850s–1900s)
9. Modernity and its Discontents (1900s–1930s)
10. Cultures of Empire and War (1900s–1940s)
11. Defeat and Reconstruction (1945–1970s)
12. “Cool” Japan as Cultural Superpower (1980s–2010s)
Notes
Index
