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082			_a952 _bMAS
100			_aMason, R. H. P. _964702
245			_aHistory of Japan
260			_aTokyo _bTuttle Pub. _c1997
300			_a407,ip.
505			_aCONTENTS PART I Archaic Japan ONE Environment and Early Settlement 19 TWO Yamato 25 The Beginnings of Political Unity 25 Government and Religion 32 PART II ANCIENT JAPAN The Taika Reform 42 Conclusion 50 FOUR o Culture in the Nara Period 52 Material Culture 53 Writings 55 FIVE o Government in the Heian Period 64 Emperor Kammu and His Successors 781-850 66 Rule by the Fujiwara, 850-1068 68 The Development of Sh6en 74 Rule by Cloistered Emperors (lnsei), 1068-1156 77 Conclusion 79 six o Heian Literature 81 Poetry 83 Early Prose and Uta-monogatari 85 Court Diaries (nikki) 88 Two Heian Masterpieces-Makura no Soshi and Genji Monogatari 9! SEVEN o Religion in the Heian Period 98 Tendai Buddhism 98 Shingon Buddhism 104 Religion and Society 106 EIGHT o Architecture and Art in the Heian Period 110 Architecture 110 Sculpture 114 Painting 115 Music 116 PART III MEDIEVAL JAPAN NINE Rule by the Military Houses 121 The Rise and Fall of the House of Taira 124 The Heike Monogatari 126 The Success of the Minamoto Under Yoritomo 128 The H6j6 Regency 132 The Mongol Invasions 135 The Decline of the Kamakura Bakufu 136 The House of Ashikaga 138 The Muromachi Bakufu at Its Height 140 TEN o The Failure of Ashikaga Rule : The Vigor of Economic and Cultural Life 144 The Collapse of Central Government 144 The Vigor of Economic Life 147 Cultural Life in the Period of the Country at War 148 Funa Benkei 154 ELEVEN o Buddhism in the Kamakura and Muromachi Periods 158 Honen (1133-1212), Shinran (1173-1262), and the Spread of Amidism 161 Nichiren (1222-82) 165 Dogen (1200-1253) and Other Zen Monks 167 PART IV EARLY MODERN JAPAN TWELVE Sixteenth-Century Japan 173 Nobunaga and Hideyoshi 174 Castles, Palaces, and Decorative Arts in the Momoyama Period 184 Contact with the Outside World 187 THIRTEEN Administration Under the Tokugawa 190 The New Bakufu 191 Regulation of Elites: Buddhist Sects and the Imperial Court 195 Central Government and Local Autonomy: The Baku-Han System 196 Foreign Policy: "Closure" of the Country and Relations with Neighboring States 202 Bureaucratization and the Changing Role of the Samurai 209 Taxation and Fiscal Problems 214 The Bakufu, 1651-184 217 FOURTEEN Society and Culture in Early Modern Japan 220 Monetization and the Development of a Market Economy 222 Villages Drawn into the National Economy 226 City Life and City Culture 231 Intellectual Life and Education 244 The Japanese "Family System" 249 Conclusion 252 PART V MODERN JAPAN FIFTEEN The Meiji Era and Policies for Modernization The Restoration 258 Meiji Foreign Policy 264 Economic Policies and the Beginnings of Industrialization 270 Domestic Politics and the Transition to Constitutional Rule 280 Formation and Development of Political Parties 289 The Constitution and the Ideology of Kokutai 294 Meiji Society 299 SIXTEEN From Consensus to Crisis, 1912-37 Painting 305 Music 308 Dramatic Entertainments Literature 315 Ideology 318 Politics and the Economy Conclusion 338 SEVENTEEN Solutions Through Force War in China 343 The Pacific War 349 The Occupation 354 POSTSCRIPT 361 BIBLIOGRAPHY 375 INDEX 385
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700			_aCaiger, J. G. _964703
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