The Cambridge History of JapanJohn Whitney Hall Cambridge University Press, 1988 - 630 sivua Japan's ancient age was a period of radical and political change during which a Chinese-style empire emerged. This volume of The Cambridge History of Japan spans the beginnings of human existence to the end of the eighth century, focusing on the thousand years between 300 B.C. and 784, the end of the fabulous Nara period. The volume explores this period in four stages: (1) The Yayoi period (to about 250 A.D.) when small kingdoms and kingdom federations accumulated enough power to dispatch diplomatic missions to Korea and China; (2) the Yamato period (to 587) when priestly rulers, having gained economic and military power, conquered most of Japan; (3) the Century of Reform (to 710) when Japanese leaders, pressed by China's expanding T'ang empire, set out to build a strong Chinese-style empire of their own; (4) the Nara period (to 784) when spectacular literary, artistic, architectural, and religious advances were made. |
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Introduction I | 1 |
Toward a holistic approach | 9 |
Great waves of change | 20 |
The earliest societies in Japan | 48 |
The preJōmon period xuy | 55 |
The Yayoi period | 78 |
The Yamato kingdom | 108 |
Yamato expansion | 124 |
Okinoshima the Yamato court and the continent | 312 |
The evolution of Shinto | 328 |
Early Buddha worship | 359 |
Soga Buddhism | 370 |
Ritsuryo Buddhism | 388 |
Nara Buddhism | 397 |
Nara economic and social institutions | 415 |
Control of persons | 425 |
Yamato disruption | 144 |
The century of reform | 163 |
The Nara state | 221 |
Nara and Todaiji | 241 |
Authority crises | 257 |
Japan and the continent | 268 |
The country of Yamatai in the Late Yayoi period | 283 |
Japan and the three Korean kingdoms | 297 |
Policy changes | 436 |
The early shōen | 448 |
IO The early evolution of historical consciousness | 504 |
Vitalism | 521 |
Optimism | 537 |
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