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Summary:

"The People and Culture of Japan features conversations between Donald Keene, a preeminent scholar of Japanese literature, and Shiba Ryotaro, the author who continued to contemplate the human condition through his original and distinctive lens of history. These talks-which mainly explore the foundations of Japanese culture-took place in Japanese on three occasions in 1971, in the historic cities of Nara, Kyoto, and Osaka. Drawing on their profound insights into Japan's relations with foreign cultures over the course of Japanese history, the two engage in a passionate discussion of their first-hand impressions and observations of Japanese culture." from back cover

Table of Contents:

• The birth of Japanese culture
• Kukai, Ikkyu, and the University of Religion
• The world of gold, the world of silver: the aesthetics of troubled times
• The Japanese view of war
• Confucianism and Japanese morals
• Westerners in Japan
• Japanese morals, revisited
• The culture of Edo.

Contributors:

Keene, Donald , interviewee, author of preface

Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996 , interviewee, author of preface

Uemura, Yōkō , author of foreward

Gonzalez, Tony , translator

Languages:

English
Japanese

Language Notes:

Text in English translated from the Japanese.

Other Related Resources:

Translates selections from: Sekai no naka no Nihon bunka [by Keene, D.] (Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 2013; Donarudo Kīn chosakushū ; dai 9-kan — ISBN 9784106471094; OCLC Number 864424018)

Translates: Nihonjin to Nihon bunka [by Shiba, R.] (Shohan; Tōkyō : Chūō Kōronsha, Shōwa 47 [1972] — ISBN 9784121002853; LCCN 72814957; OCLC Number 14946039)

Related Series:

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

Alternate Titles:

colophon title: (Eibunban) Nihonjin to Nihon bunka

Subjects:

Keene, Donald — Interviews

Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996 — Interviews

Japan — Social life and customs

Keene, Donald

Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996

Manners and customs

Japan

Genres:

Interviews

General Notes:

Includes index.
"This book is a complete translation of 'Nihonjin to nihonbunka' from 'The Collected Works of Donald Keene, Vol.9 ; Donarudo kiin chosakushu dai 9 kan: sekai no naka no nihonbunka (Shinchosa Publishing Co., Ltd., 2013), which is also in print since its original publication in 1972 as a book published by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc." -- title page verso.
Foreword by Uemura Yoko.
Prefaces by Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro.

Physical Description:

171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Call Numbers:

DS821.K44 P46 2016

ISBNs:

9784916055576 (hbk.)
4916055578 (hbk.)

OCLC Numbers:

945948564