| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 395 pages) : maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
Japanese historian Louis Perez brings Mikiso Hane's rich and beloved account of early Japanese history up-to-date in this thoroughly revised Second Edition of Premodern Japan. The text traces the key developments of Japanese history in the premodern period, including the establishment of the imperial dynasty, early influences from China and Korea, the rise of the samurai class and the establishment of feudalism, the culture and society of the long Tokugawa period, the rise of Confucianism and Shinto nationalism, and finally, the end of Tokugawa rule. While the text provides many political deve. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Early Years; Geographic Setting; The Mythological Origins of Japan; Japanese Prehistory; Japan's Neighbor: Korea; Early Yamato Society: Fourth and Fifth Centuries; The Indigenous Cults; Social Practices and Conditions; Architecture; 2. The Advent and Assimilation of Chinese Civilization; The Introduction of Chinese Civilization; Buddhism; Prince Shōtoku; The Taika Reforms; Culture of the Seventh and Eighth Centuries; Social and Economic Conditions; Marriage and Gender Relations; Internal and External Foes. |
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3. The Heian PeriodThe Age of Court Aristocracy; The Central Government; Culture; Nara-Heian Buddhism; The Rise of Shōen; The Emergence of the Warrior Class (Samurai); The Triumph of the Samurai; The Rivalry of the Taira and Minamoto Clans; 4. The Kamakura Period; The Kamakura Shogunate (1185-1333); The Hōjō Regency; Foreign Relations: The Asian Continent; The Mongol Invasions and the Decline of the Kamakura Bakufu; The Ethos of the Samurai; Women and Inheritance; Kamakura Buddhism; Culture; 5. The Ashikaga Period and the Emergence of the Daimyō; Political Developments; Ashikaga Rule. |
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The Decline of the ShōenThe Onset of the Time of Troubles; The Rise of the Daimyō and the Warring States; The Peasantry; Economic Growth; The Influence of Zen Buddhism on Culture; Other Cultural Developments; 6. The Restoration of Order; Oda Nobunaga; Toyotomi Hideyoshi; Hideyoshi's Domestic Policies; The Ninja; Azuchi-Momoyama Culture; Gender and Sexuality; Contact with the West; Christianity in Japan; The Introduction of Western Things; 7. The Early Tokugawa Period; The Triumph of Tokugawa Ieyasu; The Power Structure; Administrative Structure; The Administration of Justice; Social Structure. |
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The SamuraiThe Peasants; The Townspeople; Other Classes; Family Hierarchy and Women; 8. Intellectual and Cultural Developments in Tokugawa Japan; Neo-Confucianism; The Zhu Xi School in Japan; The Wang Yang-Ming School; Ancient Learning; National Learning; Agrarian Egalitarianism; The Culture of the Townspeople; Prose Fiction; Theater; Woodblock Printing and Painting; Haiku; Education; The State of Buddhism; 9. The Late Tokugawa Period; Political Developments; Economic Problems; The Pleasure Quarters; The Lot of the Peasants; Population Control; Peasant Uprisings; Agricultural Improvements. |
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ForestryIntellectual Currents: Reformers and Critics; 10. The Fall of the Tokugawa Bakufu; Sakoku; The Arrival of Commodore Perry; The Immediate Consequences; The Mentality of Sonnō Jōi; The Rise of the Anti-Bakufu Forces; The Meiji Restoration; Appendix A: The Internet; Appendix B: Chronological Chart; Appendix C: List of Shōguns; Selected Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Japan -- History -- To 1868.
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Japan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1868 |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Perez, Louis G., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hane, Mikiso. Premodern Japan. Second edition. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2015] 9780813349657 (DLC) 2014032427 (OCoLC)891494633 |
| ISBN |
9780813349701 (electronic book) |
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0813349702 (electronic book) |
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9780813349657 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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0813349656 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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0429974442 |
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9780429974441 |
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0429494815 |
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9780429494819 |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9780429494819 |
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