The Arts of Japan

The Japanese

A History in Twenty Lives

Harding, ChristopherAllen Lane · 2020

Cover of The Japanese

Details

Titel
The Japanese
Untertitlel
A History in Twenty Lives
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
Medium
Print
Seitenzahl
528
width
130 mm
height
198 mm
ISBN 13
9780141992280
Verleger
Allen Lane

Klappentext

Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and adventurers - each offering insights of their own into this extraordinary place.

For anyone new to Japan, this book is the ideal introduction. For anyone already deeply involved with it, this is a book filled with surprises and pleasures.