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This volume examines different aspects of the Japanese experience in a comparative context. There is much here of relevance to contemporary developing countries anxious to initiate the experience of miraculous growth and anxious to avoid the subsequent stagnation. Such issues of the role of government in providing the right amount of infant industry protection, the relevance of the financial system, the country’s peculiar corporate structure and the role of education in a comparative context serve to illuminate the lessons and legacies of this unique experience in development. The relationship between various dimensions of its domestic policy experience and Japan’s international experience in trade promotion and foreign aid is explored and is of special interest to an international audience of academics and policymakers.
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Genre |
: Business & Economics |
Author |
: Koichi Hamada |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Release |
: 2011-04-21 |
File |
: 241 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781136738654 |
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Classic setsuwa tales describing Buddhism's emergence in eighth-century Japan.
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: Literary Collections |
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: |
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: Columbia University Press |
Release |
: 2013-07-02 |
File |
: 225 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231164207 |
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This is the first collection of Buddhist legends in Japan, and these stories form the repertoire of miraculous events and moral examples that later Buddhist priests used for preaching to the people. As Kyokai describes his own intentions, "By editing these stories of miraculous events I want to pull the people forward by the ears, offer my hand to lead them to good, and show them how to cleanse their feet of evil" (p.222). Nakamura's book is actually two works in one: first an introduction to the Nihon ryoiki, and then an annotated translation. The introduction analyzes the life of the author and the influence of earlier writings, and provides a valuable synthesis of the world view reflected in the work. The annotated translation renders the more than one hundred stories into English narrative, with copious notes. Difficult terms are identified in the text with the original Chinese characters, while historical matters and Buddhist technical terms are explained in the footnotes.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Kyoko Motomuchi Nakamura |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2013-09-13 |
File |
: 348 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781136792601 |
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Traditional Japanese Literature features a rich array of works dating from the very beginnings of the Japanese written language through the evolution of Japan's noted aristocratic court and warrior cultures. It contains stunning new translations of such canonical texts as The Tales of the Heike as well as works and genres previously ignored by scholars and unknown to general readers.
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Genre |
: Fiction |
Author |
: Haruo Shirane |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Release |
: 2012 |
File |
: 601 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231157308 |
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: 1876 |
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: 1224 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCLA:31158007681066 |
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: Lady Georgiana Fullerton |
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: |
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: 1872 |
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: 280 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BL:A0026672508 |
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: Japan |
Author |
: Oscar L. Evangelista |
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: |
Release |
: 2006 |
File |
: 154 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015067637820 |
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In Japanese culture, oni are ubiquitous supernatural creatures who play important roles in literature, lore, and folk belief. Characteristically ambiguous, they have been great and small, mischievous and dangerous, and ugly and beautiful over their long history. Here, author Noriko Reider presents seven oni stories from medieval Japan in full and translated for an English-speaking audience. Reider, concordant with many scholars of Japanese cultural studies, argues that to study oni is to study humanity. These tales are from an era in which many new oni stories appeared for the purpose of both entertainment and moral/religious edification and for which oni were particularly important, as they were perceived to be living entities. They reflect not only the worldview of medieval Japan but also themes that inform twenty-first-century Japanese pop and vernacular culture, including literature, manga, film, and anime. With each translation, Reider includes an introductory essay exploring the historical and cultural importance of the characters and oni manifestations within this period. Offering new insights into and interpretations of not only the stories therein but also the entire genre of Japanese ghost stories, Seven Demon Stories is a valuable companion to Reider’s 2010 volume Japanese Demon Lore. It will be of significant value to folklore scholars as well as students of Japanese culture.
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: Social Science |
Author |
: Noriko T. Reider |
Publisher |
: University Press of Colorado |
Release |
: 2016-10-03 |
File |
: 307 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781607324904 |
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A study of the surprising functions of Buddhist statues, which helped disseminate Buddhist beliefs among the populace in Tenth- and Eleventh-century Japan. Using ethnographic data drawn from present-day fieldwork and marshalling ancient textual evidence, Horton reveals the historical origins and development of modern Japanese beliefs and practices.
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: S. Horton |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2007-10-01 |
File |
: 243 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780230607149 |
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: Henry Davenport Northrop |
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: 1894 |
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: 664 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: HARVARD:HNW23B |