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Essential for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. The World War II-era study by the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict paints an illuminating contrast between the people of Japan and those of the United States. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a revealing look at how and why our societies differ, making it the perfect introduction to Japanese history and customs.
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In Japanese, the word for "foreign country" means "outnation." But to many Americans and Japanese, it is Japan itself, despite its increasing influence in world affairs, that is the outsider-the outnation: a country, as some have said, in the world but not of it.
How different is this industrial superpower? Why did its fast climb to the pinnacle of the global economy also contain the causes of its subsequent fall? And what can we all-Americans and...
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Asia local studies/global themes volume 31
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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English
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Contrary to popular perceptions of premodern Japanese women as oppressed and subjugated by patriarchal norms, this work contends that when we read texts by and about women written between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, we see a broad and complex picture of women's lives, one in which women were far from passive or powerless. Instead, women were seen as active participants in society who could effect both positive and negative change.
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Heibonsha survey of Japanese art volume 30
Publisher
Weatherhill
Pub. Date
1979
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177 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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English
13) Early Japan
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Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1968
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191 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps.
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English
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What life was like volume 13
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1999
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IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 7
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144 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 26 cm.
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English
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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First American edition.
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224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
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English
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A celebration of all things Japan. Find out what makes Japanese culture unique, where to experience it for yourself and how to absorb some of its wisdom along the way.
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