The people and culture of Japan : conversations between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro / translated by Tony Gonzalez.

By:

Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Series: Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)Publisher: Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9784916055576
4916055578

Other title:

colophon title : (Eibunban) Nihonjin to Nihon bunka

Uniform titles:

Nihonjin to Nihon bunka. English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Interviews.

LOC classification:

DS821 .S51813 2016

Contents:

The birth of Japanese culture -- Kukai, Ikkyu, and the University of Religion -- The world of gold, the world of silver: the aesthetics of troubled times -- The Japanese view of war -- Confucianism and Japanese morals -- Westerners in Japan -- Japanese morals, revisited -- The culture of Edo.

Summary: "The People and Culture of Japan features conversations between Donald Keene, a preeminent scholar of Japanese literature, and Shiba Ryotaro, the author who continued to contemplate the human condition through his original and distinctive lens of history. These talks-which mainly explore the foundations of Japanese culture-took place in Japanese on three occasions in 1971, in the historic cities of Nara, Kyoto, and Osaka. Drawing on their profound insights into Japan's relations with foreign cultures over the course of Japanese history, the two engage in a passionate discussion of their first-hand impressions and observations of Japanese culture." from back coverTranslation of: Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996., Nihonjin to Nihon bunka., Tōkyō : Chūō Kōronsha, Shōwa 47 [1972]Translates selections from (manifestation):: Keene, Donald., Sekai no naka no Nihon bunka., Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 2013.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Carlos P. Romulo Library	DS 821 S51 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	G03455

Includes index.

"This book is a complete translation of 'Nihonjin to nihonbunka' from 'The Collected Works of Donald Keene, Vol.9 ; Donarudo kiin chosakushu dai 9 kan: sekai no naka no nihonbunka (Shinchosa Publishing Co., Ltd., 2013), which is also in print since its original publication in 1972 as a book published by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc." -- title verso.

Foreword by Uemura Yoko.

Prefaces by Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro.

"The People and Culture of Japan features conversations between Donald Keene, a preeminent scholar of Japanese literature, and Shiba Ryotaro, the author who continued to contemplate the human condition through his original and distinctive lens of history. These talks-which mainly explore the foundations of Japanese culture-took place in Japanese on three occasions in 1971, in the historic cities of Nara, Kyoto, and Osaka. Drawing on their profound insights into Japan's relations with foreign cultures over the course of Japanese history, the two engage in a passionate discussion of their first-hand impressions and observations of Japanese culture." from back cover