Pax Tokugawana : the cultural flowering of Japan, 1603-1853 / Haga Tōru ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
Haga, Tōru, 1931-2020, author.; Carpenter, Juliet Winters, translator.
2021
DS822.2 .H26913 2021 (Mapit)
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Title Pax Tokugawana : the cultural flowering of Japan, 1603-1853 / Haga Tōru ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
Author Haga, Tōru, 1931-2020, author.
Uniform Title Bunmei to shite no Tokugawa Nihon. English (Carpenter)
Edition First English edition.
ISBN 9784866581484 (hardback)
4866581484 (hardback)
Published Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 371 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers 1920021034008
Call Number DS822.2 .H26913 2021
Summary "Some people view Tokugawa Japan through the "exotic Edo" lens. Others see the era as Japan's dark ages. And those who reject both of these extremes tend to think of it as simply the run-up to Japan's modernization. Yet it would be more accurate to see it as a vast flowering of culture spearheaded by the Rinpa school of art led and developed by Tawaraya Sōtatsu and Ogata Kōrin; the exquisite poetry of Matsuo Bashō and Yosa Buson; the groundbreaking natural science treatises by Kaibara Ekiken and others; Arai Hakuseki's Seiyō kibun [Tidings of the West] and Sugita Genpaku's Rangaku kotohajime [The Dawn of Western Science in Japan]; and by such towering figures as Watanabe Kazan and Hiraga Gennai. All told, the Tokugawa period was arguably the high-water mark of Japan's long cultural traditions. This ambitious work provides a comprehensive review of the distinctive culture that emerged in the limited space of the Tokugawa period's 250 years and the narrow confines of Japan. As such, it stands at the forefront of comparative cultural studies and points the way to new insights. This definitive volume is the culmination of a lifetime of work by a scholar whose research on the Tokugawa era has been recognized with awards from, inter alia, the Japan Art Academy and the Japan Academy." -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-354) and index.
Added Author Carpenter, Juliet Winters, translator.
Series Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
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Tokugawa Japan as a model for the world : the past as prologue
Author's introduction : the changing image of the Tokugawa period
Part I. Rakuchū rakugai-zu : paintings of scenes in and around Kyoto ; "Come, let us be crazy" : izumo no okuni and ryūtatsu kouta ; Kōetsu, sōtatsu, and the classical revival
Part II. All roads lead to Edo : Bashō's praise of Tokugawa ; An enlightened practical scientist : Kaibara Ekiken, gazetteerist and naturalist ; A visitor in the Sakoku era : Kaempfer and Genroku Japan ; Winter 1709 : east-west dialogue in the Christian compound
Part III. The century of natural history : eighteenth-century Japan and the west ; A letter with no addressee : Sugita Gempaku, nine times blessed old man ; Reading Sugita Gempaku's memoir : Dawn of Western Science in Japan ; Pictures of peace
Part IV. Poet of the Pax Tokugawana : Yosa Buson ; Buson's youthful elegy : "Mourning the old sage Hokuju" ; Women becoming more and more beautiful : Buson and Harunobu ; Coping with the long peace : young rowdies, Ōta Nampo ; The French Revolution and Japan : mild spring weather in a "Little Ice Age"
Part V. Toward the end of the Pax Tokugawana ; Tokugawa colors and design
Afterword
Chronology.

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