Cambridge University Press

Marius B. Jansen

John Whitney Hall

Peter Duus

Delmer Myers Brown

Donald H. Shively

William H. McCullough

Kōzō Yamamura

This comprehensive work surveys the historical events and developments in Japan's polity, economy, society and culture.

The Cambridge History of Japan

Kozo Yamamura

Delmer M. Brown

Definitive history of Japan from prehistoric times to the end of the eighth century.

Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowing from the West in the first decades after the Restoration: the formulation of strategies for modernizing and the adaptation of Western models to Meiji culture. In the second half of the volume, the darker side, the pathology of modernization, is seen. The adjustment of the individual and the effects of progressive modernization on culture in an increasingly complex, twentieth-century society are recurring themes. They are illustrated with particular intensity in the experience of such writers as Natsume Soseki and Kobayashi Hideo, in the thought of Nishida Kitaro, and in the millenarian aspects of the new religions. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture

This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment in Western literature of the Heian period, the Japanese imperial court's golden age.

Donald H. Shively

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