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| ===== Japan: A Short Cultural history ===== | ===== Japan: A Short Cultural history ===== | ||
| + | ==== Origins ==== | ||
| * Origins hazy - Cosmogonic and Theogonic aspects | * Origins hazy - Cosmogonic and Theogonic aspects | ||
| * Physical artifacts provide most useful information about origin | * Physical artifacts provide most useful information about origin | ||
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| * Shintoism - animistic | * Shintoism - animistic | ||
| * Chinese writing --> provide means for Japan/Korea to document their history etc. | * Chinese writing --> provide means for Japan/Korea to document their history etc. | ||
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| + | ==== Themes ==== | ||
| + | * **Cycles**: Prehistory to consolidation to feudalism (reminds me of 三国演义） | ||
| + | * Governments/ | ||
| + | * Limited talent pool leads to gradual decline | ||
| + | * Religious **syncretism** has been happening throughout the ages | ||
| + | * Early **literature** describes life of the elite, not the average | ||
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| + | ==== Key Periods ==== | ||
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| + | * Early history | ||
| + | * Nara | ||
| + | * Heian | ||
| + | * Kamakura | ||
| + | * Muromachi - Ashikaga Shoguns | ||
| + | * Sengoku | ||
| + | * Yedo | ||
| + | * Tokugawa regime | ||
| + | * Genroku | ||
| + | * Post-feudalism | ||
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| + | ==== Author ==== | ||
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| + | * Sir George Bailey Sansom | ||
| + | * Englishman | ||
| + | * Commercial Secretary to British Embassy in Tokyo 1925 to 1940 | ||
| + | * Professor of Japanese Studies in Columbia | ||
| ====Source==== | ====Source==== | ||
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