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Understanding Japan [videorecording (DVD)] : a cultural history / Mark Ravina.

by Ravina, Mark, 1961-

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Teaching Company, 2015.

Japan -- Civilization.

Japan -- Social life and customs.

Japan -- History.

Great courses (DVD)

Great courses (DVD). Civilization & culture.

Alternate title:

Great Courses. Understanding Japan [videorecording (DVD)] : a cultural history

[videorecording (DVD)] :

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (176 p.)

Course guidebook contains lecture transcripts and outlines and bibliography.

"24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Course no. 8332.

Disc 1. Japan: a globally engaged island nation -- Understanding Japan through ancient myths -- The emergence of the Ritsuryō state -- Aspects of the Japanese language -- Early Japanese Buddhism -- Heian court culture -- Disc 2. The rise of the samurai -- Pure land Buddhism and Zen Buddhism -- Samurai culture in the Ashikaga period -- Japan at home and abroad, 1300-1600 -- Japan's isolation in the Tokugawa period -- Japanese theater: Noh and Kabuki -- Disc 3. The important of Japanese gardens -- The meaning of Bushidō in a time of peace -- Japanese poetry: the road to Haiku -- Hokusai and the art of wood-block prints -- The Meiji restoration -- Three visions of prewar Japan -- Disc 4. War without a master plan: Japan, 1931-1945 -- Japanese family life -- Japanese foodways -- Japan's economic miracle -- Kurosawa and Ozu: two giants of film -- The making of contemporary Japan.

Lecturer: Professor Mark J. Ravina, Emory University.

"Take a dazzling tour of Japanese history, life, art, and culture in this exquisite course made in partnership with the Smithsonian."--Container.

Educational films.

Filmed lectures.

Films for the hearing impaired.

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