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Title: A Traveller's History of Japan by Richard Tames ISBN: 1-56656-404-2 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Book for Starters!
Comment: Contrary to the popular opinion here, I enjoyed this book. For some one who does not really know much about Japan, or Japanese history, for that matter, the book is great. It starts off with a short prehistory, followed by the first Yamato state in Japan, followed by the Heian era, and the different shogunal dynasties, such as the Tokugawa and the Kamakura Shogunates. Then, it gives information about the Meiji Period, Japan's time as a power, and its defeat in World War II. It ends with a description of Modern Japan politically, socially, and economically.
One person said that Buddhism gets no treatment. Actually, it does. All of the important Buddhist sects (Tendai, Shingon, Nichiren, Pure Land, and Zen) are mentioned and information given about them. I do have to say, however, that Shintoism gets hardly any treatment.
And I do wisht hat the book gave more pictures and more information about the imperial family. But apart from that, I would get it!
Rating: 1
Summary: Missing the most important aspect of Japan
Comment: Any visitor to a foreign country is well advised to get to know its religion, not only because it's practiced by most inhabitants of the country, but also it illuminates many cultural and social parculiarities of the locale. This book claims to be a travellers' book on Japan, yet Buddism, which informs most of Japan's architectures, art, literature, is relegated to an a few index pages in the back of the book. More distressingly, Christianity is treated with a whole chapter, "The Christian Century", which should be appropriately titled "Encounters with the West". The Christian Century implies somehow that Japan was almost Christianized, when in fact the reader will find that at most 50,000 Japanese converted during that time. Too much emphasis is put on how these converts were persecuted, without putting these incidents into historical context. In 16th century Japan, the Emperors saw Christianity as a threat and meddling to their affairs, due in part to the missionaries' arrogant dissimal of Buddism as idolatry. In the index, Buddism is said to be a religion that "conceives salvation as extinction, rather than redemption." This is a serious misunderstanding of Buddism.
Rating: 5
Summary: JAPAN A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF
Comment: Past and present gave a westerner view of culture and their characteristic vertues. Having Japanese friends and co-workers I wanted to understand their unfathomable virtue and how civil the makeup. I find that Mr. Tames not only covered the world they came from but how they are contributing to our culture in America 2000. Past and Present :-)
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Title: The Sign of the Chrysanthemum by Katherine Paterson, Peter Landa ISBN: 0064402320 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 03 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Samurai's Tale by Erik C. Haugaard ISBN: 0395549701 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: A Traveller's History of India (2nd Ed) by Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda ISBN: 1566563062 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman, Allen Say ISBN: 0395442354 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 27 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Japan: True Stories of Life on the Road (Travelers' Tales Guides) by Donald W. George, Amy G. Carlson, Donald Richie, Alan Booth ISBN: 188521104X Publisher: Travelers' Tales Inc Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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