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Title The Cambridge history of Japan. Vol. 1, Ancient Japan / edited by Delmer M. Brown
Published Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 602 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Delmer M. Brown -- The earliest societies in Japan / J. Edward Kidder, Jr. -- The Yamato kingdom / Delmer M. Brown -- The century of reform / Inoue Mitsusada and Delmer M. Brown -- The Nara state / Naoki Kōjirō and Felicia G. Bock -- Japan and the continent / Okazaki Takashi and Janet Goodwin -- Early kami worship / Matsumae Takeshi and Janet Goodwin -- Early Buddha worship / Sonoda Kōyū and Delmer M. Brown -- Nara economic and social institutions / Torao Toshiya and William Wayne Farris -- Asuka and Nara Culture: literacy, literature, and music / Edwin A. Cranston -- The early evolution of historical consciousness / Delmer M. Brown
Summary Japan's ancient age was a period of radical and political change during which a Chinese-style empire emerged. This volume of The Cambridge History of Japan spans the beginnings of human existence to the end of the eighth century, focusing on the thousand years between 300 BC and 784, the end of the fabulous Nara period. The volume explores this period in four stages: (1) The Yayoi period (to about AD 250) when small kingdoms and kingdom federations accumulated enough power to dispatch diplomatic missions to Korea and China; (2) the Yamato period (to 587) when priestly rulers, having gained economic and military power, conquered most of Japan; (3) the Century of Reform (to 710) when Japanese leaders, pressed by China's expanding T'ang empire, set out to build a strong Chinese-style empire of their own; (4) the Nara period (to 784) when spectacular literary, artistic, architectural, and religious advances were made
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Manners and customs
Religion
SUBJECT Japan -- History -- To 794. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069431
Japan -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069579
Japan -- Religion -- To 1185. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069561
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Delmer M., 1909-2011
ISBN 9781139055062
1139055062
9781139055062
Other Titles Ancient Japan