Research Catalog

Title

The people and culture of Japan : conversations between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro / translated by Tony Gonzalez.

Author

• 司馬遼太郎, 1923-1996
• Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996

Publication

• Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Keene, Donald
• Gonzalez, Tony

Description

171 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"The People and Culture of Japan features conversations between Donald Keene, a preeminent scholar of Japanese literature, and Shiba Ryotaro, the author who continued to contemplate the human condition through his original and distinctive lens of history. These talks-which mainly explore the foundations of Japanese culture-took place in Japanese on three occasions in 1971, in the historic cities of Nara, Kyoto, and Osaka. Drawing on their profound insights into Japan's relations with foreign cultures over the course of Japanese history, the two engage in a passionate discussion of their first-hand impressions and observations of Japanese culture." from back cover

Series Statement

Japan library

Uniform Title

• 日本人と日本文化. English
• Nihonjin to Nihon bunka. English
• Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

Alternative Title

• 日本人と日本文化.
• Nihonjin to Nihon bunka.
• (英文版) 日本人と日本文化
• (Eibunban) Nihonjin to Nihon bunka

Subjects

• Keene, Donald
• Japan
• Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996
• Manners and customs
• Keene, Donald > Interviews
• National characteristics, Japanese
• Japan > Social life and customs
• Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996 > Interviews
• Interviews

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Note

• Includes index.
• "This book is a complete translation of 'Nihonjin to nihonbunka' from 'The Collected Works of Donald Keene, Vol.9 ; Donarudo kiin chosakushu dai 9 kan: sekai no naka no nihonbunka (Shinchosa Publishing Co., Ltd., 2013), which is also in print since its original publication in 1972 as a book published by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc." -- title verso.
• Foreword by Uemura Yoko.
• Prefaces by Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro.

Language (note)

• Text in English translated from the Japanese.

Contents

The birth of Japanese culture -- Kukai, Ikkyu, and the University of Religion -- The world of gold, the world of silver: the aesthetics of troubled times -- The Japanese view of war -- Confucianism and Japanese morals -- Westerners in Japan -- Japanese morals, revisited -- The culture of Edo.

Call Number

JFD 16-1523

ISBN

• 9784916055576
• 4916055578

OCLC

945948564

Author

Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996, author.

Alternate Script for Author

司馬遼太郎, 1923-1996, author.

Alternate Script for Uniform Title

日本人と日本文化. English

Title

The people and culture of Japan : conversations between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro / translated by Tony Gonzalez.

Publisher

Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Japan library

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

Language

Text in English translated from the Japanese.

Alternate Script for Subject

司馬遼太郎, 1923-1996 Interviews.

Added Author

Keene, Donald, author.

Gonzalez, Tony, translator.

Alternate Script for Note

colophon title : (英文版) 日本人と日本文化

Translation Of:

Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996. Nihonjin to Nihon bunka. Shohan. Tōkyō : Chūō Kōronsha, Shōwa 47 [1972] 9784121002853 (DLC) 72814957 (OCoLC)14946039

Translates selections from (manifestation): Keene, Donald. Sekai no naka no Nihon bunka. Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 2013. Donarudo Kīn chosakushū ; dai 9-kan 9784106471094 (OCoLC)864424018

Research Call Number

JFD 16-1523