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Understanding Japan [compact disc] : a cultural history / Professor Mark J. Ravina.

by Ravina, Mark, 1961- teacher.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2015]

Japan -- Civilization.

Japan -- Social life and customs.

Japan -- History.

Great courses (Compact disc)

12 audio discs (12 hr.) in 2 containers : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

Volume 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 -- 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.

Volume 2. The importance 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 -- 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 Mark J. Ravina presents a series of 24 30-minute lectures on the culture of Japan, from prehistoric through contemporary times.

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