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Remnants of days past : a journey through old Japan / Watanabe Kyoji ; translated by Joseph Litsch
- Title
- Remnants of days past : a journey through old Japan / Watanabe Kyoji ; translated by Joseph Litsch
- Author
- Watanabe, Kyōji, 1930-
- Publication
- Tokyo, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2020
- ©2020
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- Additional Authors
- Litsch, Joseph, 1976-
- Description
- 471 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Remnants of Days Past, by Kyoji Watanabe, is an epic journey into Japan's past. It is a comprehensive look at the Tokugawa rule and the Edo period, an age in which the civilization of "Old Japan" was still on display and which, for better or worse, ceased to exist with the advent of modernization. Watanabe covers in great detail several topics pertaining to this civilization, including the status and position of the various social classes, views of women and children, attitudes towards sex, labor, and the body and religious beliefs, as well as the unique cosmology behind this civilization. Watanabe makes use of a number of works written by foreign observers who visited Japan from the end of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji to support his views. As the author writes in the book, "What is important in my mind is the reality that the civilization of 'Old Japan' developed through a universal desire, as well as the ideas behind this desire, to make it as comfortable as possible for human existence." This is a massive work that takes an in-depth look at what modern Japan has lost"--
- Series Statement
- Japan library
- Uniform Title
- Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
- Yukishi yo no omokage. English
- Alternative Title
- Yukishi yo no omokage.
- Subject
- 1600-1912
- Civilization
- Gaikokujin(Nihon zairyū)
- Japan > Civilization > 1600-1868
- Japan > Civilization > 1868-1912
- Japan > Civilization > 19th century
- Japan > Foreign public opinion
- Japan > Sources. > Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
- Japan
- Japon > Civilisation > 1600-1868
- Japon > Civilisation > 1868-1912
- Japon > Civilisation > 19e siècle
- Japon > Sources. > 1600-1868 (Époque des Tokugawa)
- Nihon-Rekishi-Bakumatsuki
- Nihon-Rekishi-Meiji jidai
- Public opinion
- Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868
- Visiteurs étrangers > Japon
- Visitors, Foreign > Japan
- Visitors, Foreign
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Sources.
- Note
- "This book is a translation of Yukishi yo no omokage which was originally published by Ashishobo in 1998"--Title page verso
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-466) and index
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Japanese.
- Contents
- Illusions of a civilization -- Cheerful people -- Simplicity and wealth -- Friendliness and courtesy -- Fullness and variety -- Labor and the body -- Freedom and status -- The naked body and sex -- The status of women -- A children's paradise -- Scenery and cosmology -- Living things and cosmology -- Religious beliefs and festivals -- Barriers of the mind -- Afterword -- A postscript to the Heibonsha Library edition -- Commentary: Sympathy is the best method for understanding / Hirakawa Sukehiro -- References: Important people of note -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9784866581408
- 4866581409
- LCCN
- 2020436093
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries