The Cambridge History of Japan

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John 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
Works cited
549
Glossaryindex
579
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