David John Lu - Japan: A Documentary History (East Gate Books)
Here you can read online David John Lu - Japan: A Documentary History (East Gate Books) full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 1996, publisher: M E Sharpe Inc, genre: Religion. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
Japan: A Documentary History (East Gate Books): summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Japan: A Documentary History (East Gate Books)" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
David John Lu: author's other books
Who wrote Japan: A Documentary History (East Gate Books)? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
Japan: A Documentary History (East Gate Books) — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Japan: A Documentary History (East Gate Books)" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Disclaimer: This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set ( http://www.w3.org/TR/images/latin1.gif ), netLibrary will represent them as they appear in the original text, and most computers will be able to show the full characters correctly. In order to keep the text searchable and readable on most computers, characters with diacritics that are not part of the ISO 8859-1 list will be represented without their diacritical marks.
An East Gate Book
Copyright 1997 by David J. Lu
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Japan: a documentary history / edited by David J. Lu. p. cm. "An East Gate book." Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56324-906-5 (alk. paper) 1. JapanHistory I. Lu, David John, 1928. DS835.J37 1996 952dc20 96-24433 CIP
Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z 39.48-1984.
BM (c) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
Page v
To Kevin, Brian, Annamaria, Olivia, Naomi, and another little one on her way
Page vii
Contents
Japan: A Documentary History is being published simultaneously in one clothbound edition, which includes the complete text, and two paperback editions: Vol. I: The Dawn of History to the Late Tokugawa Period,and Vol. II: The Late Tokugawa Period to the Present.The complete table of contents and the complete index appear in all three, and the pagination of the paperbacks is sequential.
Preface
xi
Note on Japanese and Chinese Names and Terms
xv
I. Dawn of Japanese History
3
Power contest between Sun Goddess and Susano-o; Coming of age in ancient Japan; Emperor Jimmu's conquest of the East; Japan in the Wei dynastic history; The legend of Prince Yamototakeru; Early Shinto rituals from the Engishiki
II. The Impact of Chinese Civilization
21
The regency of Prince Shotoku; The Taika reforms; Law and administration under the Taiho-Yoro code; History as a means of solidifying the imperial power; Songs of myriad leaves; Buddhism as protector of the nation
III. The Early Heian Period
51
The lotus of the wonderful law; Kukai's view of the superiority of Buddhism; Ennin's search for the law; Confucian view of Buddhism; Fixation with China; Life of the nobility; Tales of the common man
Page viii
IV. Rise of Feudal Institutions
81
Public vs. private ownership of land; Growth of shoen; Organization of shoen; Rise of the warrior class; Rule by the Kamakura Shogunate
V. Kamakura Buddhism
117
Salvation through nembutsu; Honen and the founding of the Jodo sect; Shinran and dependence on Amida's pure grace; Dogen and the meaning of Zen; Lotus, Buddha, and nationalism
VI. The Development of Feudal Institutions through the Muromachi Period
147
Jito's encroachment upon shoen; Tokuseiforgiving of debts; Criticism of Kemmu Restoration; Ashikaga Takauji's rise to power; Shugo as domanial lords; Agricultural development and village community; Rise of a money economy; Development of ichi and za; The Soryo system and primogeniture
Similar books «Japan: A Documentary History (East Gate Books)»
Look at similar books to Japan: A Documentary History (East Gate Books). We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Reviews about «Japan: A Documentary History (East Gate Books)»
Discussion, reviews of the book Japan: A Documentary History (East Gate Books) and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.
