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This compelling text explores the development of Japan through its art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through their economic, political, and social history.

A Brief History of Japanese Civilization

PART I: BEGINNINGS AND FOUNDATIONS.

1. The Prehistory of the Japanese Archipelago.

2. The Early State: Chinese and Korean Influences.

PART II: ARISTOCRATS, MONKS, AND SAMURAI.

3. The Heian Period.

4. The Kamakura Period in Japan.

5. Muromachi Japan.

PART III: EARLY MODERN/LATE TRADITIONAL JAPAN.

6. The Formation of a New Order.

7. Tokugawa Shogunate.

PART IV: JAPAN AND THE MODERN WORLD.

8. Endings and Beginnings: From Tokugawa to Meiji, 1787-1873.

9. The Emergence of Modern Japan: 1874-1894.

10. Imperial Japan: 1895-1931.

11. Militarism and War.

12. The New Japan.

Afterword.