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Featuring full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, this text is a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture.The richness of Japan's history is renowned worldwide. The heritage of culture that its society has produced and passed on to future generations is one of Japan's greatest accomplishments. InIntroduction to Japanese Culture, you'll read an overview, through sixty-eight original and informative essays, of Japan's most notable cultural achievements, including:Religion, Zen Buddhism, arranged marriages and BushidoDrama and Art—from pottery, painting and calligraphy to haiku, kabuki and karateCuisine—everything from rice to raw fishHome and Recreation, from board games such as Go to origami, kimonos and Japanese gardensThe Japan of today is a fully modern, Westernized society in nearly every regard. Even so, the elements of an earlier age are clearly visible in the country's arts, festivals, and customs. This book focuses on the essential constants that remain in present-day Japan and their counterparts in Western culture.Edited by Daniel Sosnoski, an American writer who has lived in Japan since 1985, these well-researched articles, color photographs, and line illustrations provide a compact guide to aspects of Japan that often puzzle the outside observer.Introduction to Japanese Culture is wonderfully informative, a needed primer on the cultural make-up and behaviors of the Japanese. This book is certain to fascinate the student, tourist, or anyone who seeks to know and understand Japanese culture, Japanese etiquette, and the history of Japan.

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Le XIXe siècle fut le moment d'affirmation et de construction d'une véritable Europe des cultures où romans, opéras, pièces, musiques, idées nouvelles ont circulé comme jamais auparavant. La dérégulation culturelle fonde cette dynamique contradictoire où se rencontrent les forces du marché, les aspirations à la liberté créatrice, les volontés d'émancipation par l'accès aux pratiques culturelles, l'émulation entre anciennes et jeunes nations. Christophe Charle propose ici une relecture originale des cultures nées dans une Europe qui exporte dans le monde entier livres, musiques, opéras, œuvres d'art, modes de vie et innovations techniques. Les frontières politiques et religieuses s'ouvrent, les censures s'atténuent, les héritages académiques laissent enfin place aux innovations et aux transgressions entre les genres, les arts, les pratiques et les publics. Synthèse de très nombreux travaux dans plusieurs langues et d'enquêtes originales issues de trois décennies de recherches personnelles et collectives de l'auteur, ce livre restitue la modernité sociale et symbolique d'un moment capital de notre patrimoine culturel.

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Described as a 'hermit nation' because it isolated itself from the rest of the world, Korea remained very little known to English speakers in the late nineteenth century. During his time in Japan, the American author and educator William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928), who did much to foster understanding between the United States and Japan, became fascinated by Korea and its influence on Japanese history and culture. This historical outline of Korea is compiled from printed sources and eyewitness accounts rather than from personal experience since Griffis was yet to visit Korea at this point. Despite this, and the fact that he was sometimes criticised for presenting Korea in comparison with Japan, this book was well received. First published in 1882, it contains an annotated bibliography and features maps and illustrations throughout. Griffis' most famous work on Japan, The Mikado's Empire (1877), is also reissued in this series.

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