The people and culture of Japan : conversations between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro / translated by Tony Gonzalez.

Nihonjin to Nihon bunka. English

colophon title : (Eibunban) Nihonjin to Nihon bunka

First edition.

9784916055576 (hardcover)
4916055578 (hardcover)

Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2016.

©2016

English

Text in English translated from the Japanese.

171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

DS834.95.K43 S5513 2016

305.8956

"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

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 verso.
Foreword by Uemura Yoko.
Prefaces by Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro.

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

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