Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture
Author: Peter Nosco
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780824818654
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Nosco
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780824818654
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wai-ming Ng
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780824822422
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study uses the I Ching (Book of Changes) to investigate the role of Chinese learning in the development of thought and culture in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868). I Ching scholarship reached its apex during the Tokugawa.
Author: Kiri Paramore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-21
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1107058651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book charts the history of Confucianism in Japan to offer new perspectives on the sociology of Confucianiam across East Asia.
Author: Robert Bellah
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-06-30
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1439119023
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert N. Bellah's classic study, Tokugawa Religion does for Japan what Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism did for the West. One of the foremost authorities on Japanese history and culture, Bellah explains how religion in the Tokugawa period (160-1868) established the foundation for Japan's modern industrial economy and dispels two misconceptions about Japanese modernization: that it began with Admiral Perry's arrival in 1868, and that it rapidly developed because of the superb Japanese ability for imitation. In this revealing work, Bellah shows how the native doctrines of Buddhism, Confucianism and Shinto encouraged forms of logic and understanding necessary for economic development. Japan's current status as an economic superpower and industrial model for many in the West makes this groundbreaking volume even more important today than when it was first published in 1957. With a new introduction by the author.
Author: Robert Cornell Armstrong
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-07-31
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781500702670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the FOREWORD: BEFORE the introduction of Confucianism and Buddhism there was almost no philosophy in Japan, although the peculiar teaching of the Japanese spirit which was already in process of development cannot be entirely overlooked. What Confucianism taught was already in practice in Japan, but it was thenceforth authorized and corroborated by the precepts of the great Chinese sage. The influence of Confucianism which has been eagerly studied by the Japanese scholars for more than a thousand years since its first introduction is really immense and incalculable, especially in the sphere of moral culture. But before the Tokugawa age the influence of Buddhism was very great, spiritually far greater than that of Confucianism, producing several illustrious reformers and religious thinkers. From the beginning of the Tokugawa age, however, Confucianism took a more prominent position than Buddhism. Since the education of all the provinces at that time was based on Confucian principles, its teaching was more widely propagated than ever. Several eminent philosophers arose among the Confucian scholars who contributed a great deal to intellectual development as well as moral culture before the Reformation. For those foreigners who do not understand the gradual preparation made by Confucianism and Buddhism, the sudden uprise of Japan since the Restoration will appear to be but a miracle or at least an inexplicable wonder. But if they understand thoroughly well what Confucianism has taught, then the sudden uprise of Japan will be held no more as a miracle but as a natural and necessary transition. Since the Restoration Confucianism seems to be almost extinguished, but it is only apparently so. The teaching of the great Chinese sage is so widely diffused and deeply rooted in Japan that it must be considered to be part and parcel of Japanese culture itself. Besides that, we must not forget that the Japanese spirit began from earlier times to assimilate Confucianism to itself, that is to say, to Japanize it. As a consequence of that process Confucianism was, during the Tokugawa age, almost entirely Japanized, and in that way it was made far more vigorous and efficacious than in China and elsewhere. To understand well Confucianism of the Tokugawa age is, therefore, at the same time to understand partly Japanese culture itself. So I think that the publication of "Light from the East" which contains largely the Confucian philosophy of the Tokugawa age, written by Mr. R. C. Armstrong, who has devoted many years to the study of intellectual development in Japan, will serve for the promotion of the knowledge of Japanese culture, and disperse also, I hope, the doubt about the miraculous uprise of the Japanese nation. TETSUJIRO INOUYE, Professor of Philosophy in the Imperial University.
Author: Paul Varley
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2000-03-01
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780824821524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Dorothy Ko
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003-08-28
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0520231384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between "Confucianisms" and "women."
Author: H. Paul Varley
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roger J. Davies
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2016-08-09
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1462918832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history. This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy of Japan. This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural traditions that underlie modern Japan and offers readers deep insights into Japanese manners and etiquette. Davies begins with an investigation of the origins of the Japanese, followed by an analysis of the most important approaches used by scholars to describe the essential elements of Japanese culture. From there, each chapter focuses on one of the formative elements: Shintoism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zen, Confucianism, and Western influences in the modern era. Each chapter is concluded with extensive endnotes along with thought-provoking discussion activities, making this volume ideal for individual readers and for classroom instruction. Anyone interested in pursuing a deeper understanding of this complex and fascinating nation will find Davies's work an invaluable resource.
Author: Weiming Tu
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780674160873
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seventeen scholars from varying fields here consider the implications of Confucian concerns--self-cultivation, regulation of the family, social civility, moral education, well-being of the people, governance of the state, and universal peace--in industrial East Asia.