For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous topics, among which are samurai values, Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony, Confucianism in the Tokugawa period, the story of the forty-seven ronin, Mito scholarship in the early nineteenth century, and mass culture and comics in contemporary times.
- ISBN10 0824809270
- ISBN13 9780824809270
- Publish Date 1 August 1984 (first published 24 April 1973)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 September 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Hawai'i Press
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English