Research Catalog

Title

Sources of Japanese tradition, compiled by Ryūsaku Tsunoda, Wm. Theodore de Bary [and] Donald Keene.

Author

Tsunoda, Ryūsaku, 1877-1964

Publication

New York, Columbia University Press, 1958.

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Details

Additional Authors

• De Bary, Wm. Theodore, 1919-2017
• Keene, Donald

Description

xxvi, 928 p. maps.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Records of civilization: sources and studies, 54. Introduction to oriental civilizations

Uniform Title

• Records of civilization, sources and studies ; no. 54.
• Introduction to Oriental civilizations.

Alternative Title

Sources of [the] Japanese tradition.

Subject

• Japan > Civilization
• Japan > History > Sources

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources
• History.
• Sources.

Note

• Translation from various sources and by various individuals.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [907]-913.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The earliest records of Japan -- Early Shinto -- Prince Shōtoku and his Constitution -- Chinese thought and institutions in early Japan -- Nara Buddhism -- Saichō and Mt. Hiei -- Kūkai and esoteric Buddhism -- The spread of esoteric Buddhism -- The vocabulary of Japanese aesthetics, I -- Amida and the Pure Land -- Nichiren : the sun and the lotus -- Zen Buddhism -- Shinto in Medieval Japan -- The vocabulary of Japanese aesthetics, II -- Heroes and hero worship -- Neo-Confucian orthodoxy -- The Ōyōmei (Wang Yang-ming) School in Japan -- The rediscovery of Confucianism -- The vocabulary of Japanese aesthetics, III -- The Haiku and the democracy of poetry in Japan -- Eighteenth-century rationalism -- The Shinto revival -- Reformers of the late Tokugawa period -- The debate over seclusion and restoration -- The Meiji era -- The high tide of prewar liberalism -- The rise of revolutionary nationalism -- The Japanese social movement -- The Japanese tradition in the modern world.

LCCN

^^^58007167^//r872

OCLC

• 858507740
• SCSB-10421242

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library