Introduction to Oriental civilizations., UNESCO collection of representative works.Japanese series. 

2 volumes : 22 cm; Includes indexes.; Vol. I. The earliest records of Japan -- Early Shinto -- Prince Shōtoku and his Constitution -- Chinese thought and institutions in early Japan -- Nara Buddhism -- Saichō and Mt. Hiei -- Kūkai and esoteric Buddhism -- The spread of esoteric Buddhism -- The vocabulary of Japanese aesthetics, I -- Amida and the Pure Land -- Nichiren : the sun and the lotus -- Zen Buddhism -- Shinto in Medieval Japan -- The vocabulary of Japanese aesthetics, II -- Heroes and hero worship -- Neo-Confucian orthodoxy -- The Ōyōmei (Wang Yang-ming) School in Japan -- The rediscovery of Confucianism -- The vocabulary of Japanese aesthetics, III -- The Haiku and the democracy of poetry in Japan -- Eighteenth-century rationalism.; Vol. II. The Shinto revival -- Reformers of the late Tokugawa period -- The debate over seclusion and restoration -- The Meiji era -- The high tide of prewar liberalism -- The rise of revolutionary nationalism -- The Japanese social movement -- The Japanese tradition in the modern world.; 

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