Sources of Japanese Tradition (Introduction to Oriental Civilizations)

xxvi, 928 pp. CONTENTS: Part One: Ancient Japan: The Earliest Records of Japan - Early Shinto - Prince Shotoku and His Constitution - Chinese Thought and Institutions in Early Japan - Nara Buddhism; Part Two: The Heian Period, 111: Introduction - Saicho and Mount Hiei - Kukai and Esoteric Buddhism - The Spread of Esoteric Buddhism - The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics I; Part Three: Medieval Japan, 185: Introduction - Amida and the Pure Land - Nichieren: The Sun and the Lotus - Zen Buddhism - Shinto in Medieval Japan - The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics II; Part Four: The Tokugawa Period, 305: Heroes and Hero Worship - Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy - The Oyomei (Wang Yang-ming) School in Japan - The Rediscovery of Confucianism - The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics III - The Haiku and the the Democracy of Poetry in Japan - Eighteenth-Century Rationalism - The Shinto Revival - Reformers of the Late Tokugawa Period; Part Five: Japan and the West, 589: 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; Bibliography; Index; Maps: Early Japan, 115; Japan in the Tokugawa Period, 309.