Title and credits from container. "Smithsonian"--Disc labels. Accompanying course guidebook includes the professor biography, course scope, lecture guides and bibliographical references. "Course no. 8332"--Disc labels. Lecturer: Professor Mark J. Ravina, Emory University.
Contents:
Disc 4. The making of contemporary Japan. Understanding Japan through ancient myths -- The emergence of the Ritsury?o state -- Aspects of the Japanese language -- Early Japanese Buddhism -- Heian court culture -- Disc 2. The rise of the samurai -- Pure land Buddhism and Zen Buddhism -- Samurai culture in the Ashikaga period -- Japan at home and abroad, 1300-1600 -- Japan's isolation in the Tokugawa period -- Japanese theater: Noh and Kabuki -- Disc 3. The important of Japanese gardens -- The meaning of Bushid?o in a time of peace -- Japanese poetry: the road to Haiku -- Hokusai and the art of wood-block prints -- The Meiji restoration -- Three visions of prewar Japan -- Disc 4. War without a master plan: Japan, 1931-1945 -- Japanese family life -- Japanese foodways -- Japan's economic miracle -- Kurosawa and Ozu: two giants of film -- The making of contemporary Japan.
Summary:
Lecturer Mark J. Ravina presents a series of 24 30-minute lectures on the culture of Japan, from prehistoric through contemporary times.
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