Understanding Japan a cultural history
Lecturer Mark J. Ravina presents a series of 24 30-minute lectures on the culture of Japan, from prehistoric through contemporary times. Course guidebook at Reference Desk.
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Company,
[2015]
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| Series: | Great courses (DVD). Civilization & culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Disc 1. Japan: a globally engaged island nation
- Understanding Japan through ancient myths
- The emergence of the Ritsuryō state
- Aspects of the Japanese language
- Early Japanese Buddhism
- Heian court culture
- Disc 2. The rise of the samurai
- Pure land Buddhism and Zen Buddhism
- Samurai culture in the Ashikaga period
- Japan at home and abroad, 1300-1600
- Japan's isolation in the Tokugawa period
- Japanese theater: Noh and Kabuki
- Disc 3. The important of Japanese gardens
- The meaning of Bushidō in a time of peace
- Japanese poetry: the road to Haiku
- Hokusai and the art of wood-block prints
- The Meiji restoration
- Three visions of prewar Japan
- Disc 4. War without a master plan: Japan, 1931-1945
- Japanese family life
- Japanese foodways
- Japan's economic miracle
- Kurosawa and Ozu: two giants of film
- The making of contemporary Japan.
