The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 2: Heian Japan
Donald H. Shively, William H. Mccullough
History has played a major role in Japanese culture and thought, and the Japanese record is long and full. Japan's rulers from ancient times have found legitimacy in tradition, both mythic and historic, and Japan's thinkers have probed for a national morality and system of values in their country's past. The importance of history was also emphasized in the continental cultural influences that entered Japan from early times. Its expression changed as the Japanese consciousness turned to questions of dynastic origin, as it came to reflect Buddhist views of time and reality, and as it sought justification for rule by the samurai estate. By the eighteenth century the successive need to explain the divinity of the government, justify the ruler's place through his virtue and compassion, and interpret the flux of political change had resulted in the fashioning of a highly subjective fusion of Shinto, Buddhist, and Confucian norms.
體積:
2
年:
1999
版本:
Later Printing
出版商:
Cambridge University Press
語言:
english
頁數:
782
ISBN 10:
0521223539
ISBN 13:
9780521223539
文件:
PDF, 13.23 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1999