Varley, H. Paul. <br/><br/>
Japanese culture  [Book] / 
Paul Varley. 
 - 4th ed. updated and expanded. 
 - Honolulu :  University of Hawai°i Press,  c2000. 
 - xiii, 383 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-371) and index. 
<br/><br/>Major periods and cultural epochs of Japanese history -- Chinese dynasties since the time of unification under the Han -- Emergence of Japanese civilization -- Introduction of Buddhism -- Court at its zenith -- Advent of a new age -- Canons of medieval taste -- Country unified -- Flourishing of a bourgeois culture -- Heterodox trends -- Encounter with the West -- Fruits of modernity -- Culture in the present age. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0824821521 (paper : alk. paper) 0824822927 (cloth) 9780824821524 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Civilization.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>952