The Arts of Japan

A Short History of Japan

Harding, ChristopherPelican · 2025

Cover of A Short History of Japan

Details

Titel
A Short History of Japan
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
Medium
Print
Seitenzahl
240
width
141 mm
height
223 mm
Verleger
Pelican

Klappentext

In this enormously enjoyable introduction to a remarkable country, Christopher Harding traces Japan's rich history over several millennia. Beginning with its earliest coastal communities through to the spread of Buddhism, the rise of the warlords, the promise and menace of the West and Japan's own empire-building, Harding explores how a distinctly Japanese society and culture was forged.

Drawing on the latest scholarship, A Short History of Japan moves beyond traditional tourist-board clichés to consider Japan's own view of its past, values and culture, from ceramics and theatre to food and architecture. The result is a sensory, tactile history conveying to the reader much about Japan’s special nature. Harding skillfully shows how these everyday details are intimately bound up with the bigger historical picture, as an expression of the values that have been extraordinarily successful in helping the country to cope with centuries of radical change.