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Sources of Japanese Tradition Vol. 1 : From Earliest Times to 1600

Sources of Japanese Tradition Vol. 1 : From Earliest Times to 1600 Hardcover - 2001

by Donald F. Keene; Tanabe, George J., Jr.; Carol Gluck

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  • Title Sources of Japanese Tradition Vol. 1 : From Earliest Times to 1600
  • Author Donald F. Keene; Tanabe, George J., Jr.; Carol Gluck
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Second Edition
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 552
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0231121385I5N00
  • ISBN 9780231121385 / 0231121385
  • Weight 1.98 lbs (0.90 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.48 x 1.41 in (24.23 x 16.46 x 3.58 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
  • Library of Congress subjects Japan - History, Japan - Civilization
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00060181
  • Dewey Decimal Code 915.2

First line

The oldest extant annals in Japanese are the Records of Ancient Matters (Kojiki, 712 C.E.) and the Chronicles of Japan (Nihon Shoki or Nihongi, 720).

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Citations

  • American Reference Bks Annual, 01/01/2007, Page 49
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2001, Page 41

About the author

Wm. Theodore de Bary (1919-2017) was John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus and provost emeritus of Columbia University. His many books include Waiting for the Dawn, Message of the Mind, and Learning for One's Self, as well as Sources of Japanese Tradition and Sources of Korean Tradition, all published by Columbia University Press.

Carol Gluck is the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period.

Arthur Tiedemann is a member of the Society of Senior Scholars at the Heyman Centre for the Humanities, Columbia University. He is the author of Modern Japan: A Brief History.

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