Record details

• ISBN: 9781629971827
• ISBN: 1629971820
• Physical Description: 12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2015]
• Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Smithsonian"--Container.

Accompanying course guidebook includes the professor biography, course scope, lecture guides and bibliographical references.

"Course no. 8332"--Disc labels.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

Participant or Performer Note:

Lecturer: Professor Mark J. Ravina, Emory University.

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Japan > Civilization.
Japan > Social life and customs.
Japan > History.

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