A History of Japan

This is one of the most classic books of Japanese history and still the preeminent work on the history of Japan Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a fascinating look at the nation of Japan throughout history Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre history period A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post cold War period and collapse of the Bubble Economy in the early 1990 s Recent findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture Also included is an in depth analysis of the Japanese religion, Japanese arts, Japanese culture and the Japanese People from the 6th century B.C.E to the present This contemporary classic, now updated and revised, continues to be an essential text in Japanese studies Classic illustrations and unique pictures are dispersed throughout the book A History of Japan, Revised Edition includes Archaic Japan including Yamato, the creation of a unified state, the Nana Period, and the Heian period Medieval Japan including rule by the military houses, the failure of Ashikaga Rule, Buddhism, and the Kamakura and Muroachi Periods periods Ealy Modern Japan including Japanese feudalism, administration under the Tokugawa, and society and culture in early modern Japan Modern Japan including The Meiji Era and policies for modernization, from consensus to crisis 1912 1937 , and solutions through force This contemporary classic continues to be a central book in Japanese studies and is an vital addition to the collection of any student or enthusiast of Japanese history, Japanese culture, or the Japanese Language. New Download A History of Japan Author R.H.P. Mason For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr 3.5 starsThis classic work as claimed at the back cover is reasonably readable, informative and neutral since both authors have done their best A few chapters re a bit lengthy but we need to keep reading, pause when necessary due to Japan s long history and complex politics administration since Jimmu ascended the throne as the first emperor in 660 B.C I m not a historian, therefore, these three extracts below should imply and inform us how and why Japan has achieved her own identity as one 3.5 starsThis classic work as claimed at the back cover is reasonably readable, informative and neutral since both authors have done their best A few...Could not finish this book There are places in the writing where things could be said a littleconcisely At times, he seems to focus on peripheral facts of a historical age To the authors credit, the first half has a good flow to it, but then, they seem to los...Useful for a beginner, but somewhat dense to be read in one go as I pretty much did Some editorial decisions seemed questionable, but I m honestly in no position to judge.I m trying to clear some books off my Kindle recently This is one of them I will state up front that I did not manage to get through the entire thing, but I will count it as being read since it s for a challenge and I did read a good eighty percent of it before stopping I think it was the chapters on the Meiji era that caused me to give up at some point when it was trying to stuff too much information into a tight space and I could not retain anything.Books like this are useful in getting the I m trying to clear some books off my Kindle recently This is one of them I will state up front that I did not manage to get through the entire thing, but I will count it as being read since it s for a challenge and I did read ...Well it certainly was factfull Meaning it was jam packed full of facts strung together one after the other with a lack of over arching narrative and sometimes coherence, but man were there facts.This does just exactly what it says on the bottle I found it to be informative and all encompassing, it avoided being one thing, just a military history or just and art history but encapsulated all the disparate aspects of Japan s history poetry, rural history, foreign interaction to provide a complete portrait Sure, it could have been juicier, Mason seemed to actively avoid details of particular incidents and personalities which could have made this a littlehuman and engaging But as This does just exactly what it says on the bottle I found it to be informative and all encompassing, it avoided being one thing, just a military history or just and art history but encapsulated all the disparate aspects of Japan s history poetry, rural history, foreign interaction to provide a complete portrait Sure, it could have been juicier, Mason ...While I did learn some history, it was quite a slog The authors style is both academic and grammatically torturous The level of detail was uneven By about the turn of the century it just seemed to become a long series of names I felt the authors treated the buildup of the Japanese Empire as some sort of fait ...This was an interesting book, especially regarding the 20th century where the authors shine in giving context and depth to what iscommonly known of Japanese history The authors also do a great job of laying out the centralization of Japan from ancient times up to the medieval period, paying particular attention to the role played by Chinese influence However, in the medieval and early modern period the authors focuson literature and the arts, in definitely interesting chapters, but This was an interesting book, especially regarding the 20th century where the authors shine in giving context and depth to what iscommonly known of Japanese history The authors also do a great job of laying out the centralization of Japan from ancient times up to the medieval period, paying particular attention to the role played by Chinese influence However, in the medieval and early modern period the authors focuson literature and the ar...While this book opens as an informative and interesting introduction to Japanese history overall, it feels like a competition among five books that never quite achieves much One book wants to talk about the political history of Japan, another one about economy and agriculture, another one about painting witho...This is an extremely dry and dense book It s basically a series of academic essays on Japan.Some notes It s cool that one of the tithes would be to make x number of persons enter religion as priests, and that it gets recorded as in consequence of this, she recovered The shoen shiki system sounds like an early version of tax ...

• English
• 04 September 2018
R.H.P. Mason
• Paperback
• 407 pages
• 080482097X
• R.H.P. Mason
• A History of Japan