A History of Japan by Mason, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword to the first edition Preface to the revised edition Part 1: Archaic Japan

CHAPTER ONE: Environment and Early Settlement CHAPTER TWO: Yamato

The Beginnings of Political Unity Government and Religion

PART II: Ancient Japan

CHAPTER THREE: The Creation of a Unified State

The Soga Victory Prince Shōtoku The Taika Reform Buddhism and the Centralized Imperial State Conclusion

CHAPTER FOUR: Culture in the Nara Period

Material Culture Writings

CHAPTER FIVE: Government in the Heian Period

Emperor Kammu and His Successors, 781-850 Rule by the Fujiwara, 850-1068 The Development of Shōen Rule by Cloistered Emperors (Insei), 1068-1156 Conclusion

CHAPTER SIX: Heian Literature

Poetry Early Prose and Uta-monogatari Court Diaries (nikki) Two Heian Masterpieces—Makura no Sōshi and Genji Monogatari

CHAPTER SEVEN: Religion in the Heian Period

Tendai Buddhism Shingon Buddhism Religion and Society

CHAPTER EIGHT: Architecture and Art in the Heian Period

Architecture Sculpture Painting Music

PART III: Medieval Japan

CHAPTER NINE: Rule by the Military Houses

The Rise and Fall of the House of Taira The Heike Monogatari The Success of the Minamoto Under Yoritomo The Hōjō Regency The Mongol Invasions The Decline of the Kamakura Bakufu The House of Ashikaga The Muromachi Bakufu at Its Height

CHAPTER TEN: The Failure of Ashikaga Rule: The Vigor of Economic and Cultural Life

The Collapse of Central Government The Vigor of Economic Life Cultural Life in the Period of the Country at War Funa Benkei

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Buddhism in the Kamakura and Muromachi Periods

Hōnen (1133-1212), Shinran (1173-1262), and the Spread of Amidism Nichiren (1222-82) Dōgen (1200-1253) and Other Zen Monks

PART IV: Early Modern Japan

CHAPTER TWELVE: Sixteenth-Century Japan

Nobunaga and Hideyoshi Castles, Palaces, and Decorative Arts in the Momoyama Period Contact with the Outside World

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Administration Under the Tokugawa

The New Bakufu Regulation of Elites: Buddhist Sects and the Imperial Court Central Government and Local Autonomy: The Baku-Han System Foreign Policy: Closure of the Country and Relations with Neighboring States Bureaucratization and the Changing Role of the Samurai Taxation and Fiscal Problems The Bakufu, 1651-1841

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Society and Culture in Early Modern Japan

Monetization and the Development of a Market Economy Villages Drawn into the National Economy City Life and City Culture Intellectual Life and Education The Japanese Family System Conclusion

PART V: Modern Japan

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Meiji Era and Policies for Modernization

The Restoration Meiji Foreign Policy Economic Policies and the Beginnings of Industrialization Domestic Politics and the Transition to Constitutional Rule Formation and Development of Political Parties The Constitution and the Ideology of Kokutai Meiji Society

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: From Consensus to

Painting Music Dramatic Entertainments Literature Ideology Politics and the Economy Conclusion

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Solutions Through Force

War in China The Pacific War The Occupation

Postscript Bibliography Index ABOUT THE AUTHORS Back Cover