Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this long-awaited second edition, the editors have revised or retranslated most of the texts in the original 1958 edition, and added a great many selections not included or translated before. They have also restructured volume 1 to span the period from the early Japanese chronicles to the end of the sixteenth century. New additions include:
* readings on early and medieval Shinto and on the tea ceremony,
* readings on state Buddhism and Chinese political thought influential in Japan, and
* sections on women's education, medieval innovations in the uses of history, and laws and precepts of the medieval warrior houses.
Together, the selections shed light on the development of Japanese civilization in its own terms, without reference to Western parallels, and will continue to assist generations of students and lay readers in understanding Japanese culture.
- CONTENTS
- Preface xvii
- Explanatory Note xix
- Contributors xxi
- Chronological Table xxiii
- PART ONE Early Japan 1
- 1. The Earliest Records of Japan 3
- 2. Early Shinto 17
- 3. Prince Shotoku and His Constitution 40
- 4. Chinese Thought and Institutions in Early Japan 63
- 5. Nara Buddhism 100
- PART TWO Mahayana Universalism and the Sense of Hierarchy 123
- 6. Saicho and Mount Hiei 125
- 7. Kukai and Esoteric Buddhism 153
- 8. The Spread of Esoteric Buddhism 175
- 9. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics I 197
- PART THREE The Medieval Age: Despair, Deliverance, and Destiny 205
- 10. Amida, The Pure Land, and The Response of The Old Buddhism to the New 211
- 11. New Views of History 238
- 12. The Way of the Warrior 265
- 13. Nichiren: The Sun and the Lotus 292
- 14. Zen Buddhism 306
- 15. Shinto in Medieval Japan 336
- 16. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics II 364
- 17. Women's Education 399
- 18. Law and Precepts for the Warrior Houses 413
- 19. The Regime of the Unifiers 433
- Bibliography 473
- Index 481
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