Everyday Life In Traditional Japan

Author : Charles Dunn
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462916511
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in Traditional Japan written by Charles Dunn and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Life in Traditional Japan paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided, and the daily life of the different classes consolidated the traditions that shaped modern Japan. With detailed descriptions and over 100 illustrations, authentic samurai, farmers, craftsmen, merchants, courtiers, priests, entertainers and outcasts come to life in this magnificently illustrated portrait of a colorful society. Most works of Japanese history fail to provide enough details about the lives of the people who lived during the time. The level of detail in Everyday Life in Traditional Japan allows for a nearly complete picture of the history of Japan. In fascinating detail, Charles J. Dunn describes how each class lived: their food, clothing, and houses; their beliefs and their fears. At the same time, he takes account of certain important groups that fell outside the formal class structure, such as the courtiers in the emperor's palace at Kyoto, the Shinto and Buddhist priests, and the other extreme, the actors and the outcasts. he concludes with a lively account of everyday life in the capital city of Edo, the present-day Tokyo.

Author : Charles James Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in Traditional Japan written by Charles James Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles J. Dunn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
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Download or read book Everyday Life in Traditional Japan written by Charles J. Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 198 pages
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Download or read book Everyday Life in Traditional Japan written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles James Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in Imperial Japan written by Charles James Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents the thesis that traditions of modern day Japan were established during the approximately two and a half centuries of Tokugawa rule (1600-1867).

Author : Azby Brown
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611729572
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Enough written by Azby Brown and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the mindset of traditional Japanese society can guide our own efforts to lead a green lifestyle today. If we want to live sustainably, how should we feel about nature? About waste? About our forests and rivers? About food? Just Enough is a book of stories and sketches that give valuable insight into what it is like to live in a sustainable society by describing life in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo period, when cities and villages faced many of the same environmental challenges we do today and met them beautifully and inventively.

Author : Susan B. Hanley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520922670
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Things in Premodern Japan written by Susan B. Hanley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. Hanley considers daily life in the three centuries leading up to the modern era in Japan. She concludes that people lived much better than has been previously understood—at levels equal or superior to their Western contemporaries. She goes on to illustrate how this high level of physical well-being had important consequences for Japan's ability to industrialize rapidly and for the comparatively smooth transition to a modern, industrial society. While others have used income levels to conclude that the Japanese household was relatively poor in those centuries, Hanley examines the material culture—food, sanitation, housing, and transportation. How did ordinary people conserve the limited resources available in this small island country? What foods made up the daily diet and how were they prepared? How were human wastes disposed of? How long did people live? Hanley answers all these questions and more in an accessible style and with frequent comparisons with Western lifestyles. Her methods allow for cross-cultural comparisons between Japan and the West as well as Japan and the rest of Asia. They will be useful to anyone interested in the effects of modernization on daily life.

Author : William Wayne Farris
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901966
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan written by William Wayne Farris and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, scholars have wondered what daily life was like for the common people of Japan, especially for long bygone eras such as the ancient age (700–1150). Using the discipline of historical demography, William Wayne Farris shows that for most of this era, Japan’s overall population hardly grew at all, hovering around six million for almost five hundred years. The reasons for the stable population were complex. Most importantly, Japan was caught up in an East Asian pandemic that killed both aristocrat and commoner in countless numbers every generation. These epidemics of smallpox, measles, mumps, and dysentery decimated the adult population, resulting in wide-ranging social and economic turmoil. Famine recurred about once every three years, leaving large proportions of the populace malnourished or dead. Ecological degradation of central Japan led to an increased incidence of drought and soil erosion. And war led soldiers to murder innocent bystanders in droves. Under these harsh conditions, agriculture suffered from high rates of field abandonment and poor technological development. Both farming and industry shifted increasingly to labor-saving technologies. With workers at a premium, wages rose. Traders shifted from the use of money to barter. Cities disappeared. The family was an amorphous entity, with women holding high status in a labor-short economy. Broken families and an appallingly high rate of infant mortality were also part of kinship patterns. The average family lived in a cold, drafty dwelling susceptible to fire, wore clothing made of scratchy hemp, consumed meals just barely adequate in the best of times, and suffered from a lack of sanitary conditions that increased the likelihood of disease outbreak. While life was harsh for almost all people from 700 to 1150, these experiences represented investments in human capital that would bear fruit during the medieval epoch (1150–1600).

Author : Nicholas Bornoff
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462913814
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things Japanese written by Nicholas Bornoff and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Japanese design imbues objects with a sense of history and artistry that easily reaches across cultural boundaries. In Things Japanese: Everyday Objects of Extraordinary Beauty and Significance, author Nicholas Bornoff and photographer Michael Freeman examine over 60 traditional objects that are uniquely Japanese, deftly illustrating their beauty and significance. Beautifully crafted samurai swords Elegant wooden tansu chests Elaborate tea ceremony implements Exquisitely carved netsuke toggles Fabulous silk-and-gold embroidered kimonos Each item is described in loving detail alongside lovely full-color photographs that highlight the great artistry and craftsmanship in everyday items used by real people in traditional Japan. Things Japanese is the perfect book for Japanese antique collectors or anyone interested in Japanese art and the culture and history of Japan.

Author : Harumi Kimura
Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 : 9004213058
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Japan written by Harumi Kimura and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises 70 essays by private individuals living in Japan (members of a writing club) who have chosen a subject to write about with a view to projecting a genuine insight into the events, issues and aspirations that make them who they are – from life in a condominium to dealing with in-laws, early retirement, life after children.