Japanese Culture (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous topics, among which are samurai values, Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony, Confucianism in the Tokugawa period, the story of the forty-seven ronin, Mito scholarship in the early nineteenth century, and mass culture and comics in contemporary times.

• In Praise of Shadows
• Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture: An Illustrated Sourcebook
• The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
• The Book Of Tea
• Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
• Japanese Art (World of Art)
• The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse)
• The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
• Modern Japan: A Social and Political History (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies)
• Genji & Heike: Selections from The Tale of Genji and The Tale of the Heike