Understanding Japan : a Cultural History

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	DVD 952 Ra Oversize	4-week checkout	Due 05-12-2024
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	DVD 952 Ra Oversize	4-week checkout	Due 05-13-2024

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.
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.
Lecturer Mark J. Ravina presents a series of 24 30-minute lectures on the culture of Japan, from prehistoric through contemporary times.
DVD.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Good Intro to a wonderful place submitted by timdufresne on July 12, 2018, 5:04pm I watched this with my parents in preparation for a family trip to Japan. It gave a useful and fascinating overview of the history of Japan and enriched our experience abroad.

Excellent course submitted by valentina on June 13, 2021, 4:06pm I wish I had watched it before my trip to Japan. Very interesting and educating!