Understanding Japan
Subtitle: a cultural history
By: Mark J. Ravina
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses. History, Civilization & culture; Great courses (DVD)
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9781629971834
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Social life and customs; Civilization; History
Description: Lecturer Mark J. Ravina presents a series of 24 30-minute lectures on the culture of Japan, from prehistoric through contemporary times.
Notes: Title and credits from container.

"Smithsonian"--Disc labels.

Accompanying course guidebook includes the professor biography, course scope, lecture guides and bibliographical references.

"Course no. 8332"--Disc labels.

Lecturer: Professor Mark J. Ravina, Emory University.

DVD, NTSC.

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