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Author : Kōji Mizoguchi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521884907
The first book-length introduction to the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC-AD 700).
Author : Koji Mizoguchi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0812236513
An original, substantial contribution to interpretive archaeology (the first of its kind for Japan and East Asia), An Archaeological History of Japan addresses a broad range of issues concerning the self-identification of groups and the use of the past in contemporary society.
Author : Werner Steinhaus,Simon Kaner,Megumi Jinno,Shinya Shoda
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789693950
The Illustrated Companion to Japanese Archaeology provides for the first time a comprehensive visual introduction to a wide range of sites and finds from the earliest occupation of the Japanese archipelago prior to 35,000 years ago to the early historical periods and the establishment of the Chinese-style capital at Heijo, modern-day Nara, in the 8th century AD. The volume originated in the largest ever exhibition of Japanese archaeological discoveries held in Germany in 2004, which brought together over 1500 exhibits from 55 lenders around Japan, and research by over 100 specialists. The Illustrated Companion brings the fruits of this project to an English-reading audience and offers an up-to-date survey of the achievements of Japanese archaeology.
Author : Keiji Imamura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135362409
An illustrated introduction to the prehistory of Japan, treated in its own right and not as a minor part of East Asia in general.
Author : Hiroyuki Suzuki
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606067420
This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan’s rapid modernization. Originally published in Japanese, Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan looks at the approach toward object-based research across the late Tokugawa and early Meiji periods, which were typically kept separate, and elucidates the intellectual continuities between these eras. Focusing on the top-down effects of the professionalizing of academia in the political landscape of Meiji Japan, which had advanced by attacking earlier modes of scholarship by antiquarians, Suzuki shows how those outside the government responded, retracted, or challenged new public rules and values. He explores the changing process of evaluating objects from the past in tandem with the attitudes and practices of antiquarians during the period of Japan’s rapid modernization. He shows their roots in the intellectual sphere of the late Tokugawa period while also detailing how they adapted to the new era. Suzuki also demonstrates that Japan's antiquarians had much in common with those from Europe and the United States. Art historian Maki Fukuoka provides an introduction to the English translation that highlights the significance of Suzuki’s methodological and intellectual analyses and shows how his ideas will appeal to specialists and nonspecialists alike.
Author : Gina L. Barnes,Gina Lee Barnes
Publisher : U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780915703111
Nara is located in the center of what is known today as the Kinai region of Japan. The ancient name for the region was the Go-Kinai ("five-within the royal domain"), referring to the five provinces of which it was composed: Settsu, Kawachi, Izumi, Yamato and Yamashiro. The name Yamato, presented above variously as a provincial unit (corresponding to the present-day Nara Prefecture), or geographical unit (the Nara Basin only), is also sometimes expanded and applied on a regional scale to mean the Kinai region. This is particularly true in scholarship dealing with the fifth and sixth centuries when Yamato was in ascendance. Therefore, the Nara Basin and its archeology are the keys to unlocking the mysteries of the emergence of Japanese civilization and the early state in Japan. These mysteries are entailed in the earliest recorded history of Japan--references to Japanese island "countries" and "queens" in the Chinese dynastic histories of the third to fifth centuries A.D., and references to "kings" and "emperors" in two late fifth- to early sixth-century sword inscriptions and in the extant chronicles of Japan compiled in the early eighth century.
Author : Kaoji Mizoguchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107249848
The first book-length introduction to the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC AD 700).
Author : William Wayne Farris
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824864224
The Japanese have long sought inspiration and legitimacy from the written record of their ancient past. The shaping of bygone eras to contemporary agendas began at least by the early eighth century, when the first court histories, namely the Kojiki and the Nihon shoki, were compiled. Since the late nineteenth century, historians have extensively mined these texts and other written evidence and by the late 1970s had nearly exhausted their meager sources. Fortunately for all those interested in uncovering the origins of Japanese civilization, archaeologists have been hard at work. Today, thanks to this postwar "archaeology boom," Japan historians have never been closer to recreating the lives of prehistoric peasants, ancient princes, and medieval samurai. Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures offers substantial new insights into early Japanese history (A.D. 100-800) through an integrated discussion of historical texts and archaeological artifacts. It contends that the rich archaeological discoveries of the past few decades permit scholars to develop far more satisfactory interpretations of ancient Japan than was possible when they were heavily dependent on written sources.
Author : Koji Mizoguchi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521849535
This bold and illuminating study examines the role of archaeology in the formation of the modern Japanese nation and explores the processes by which archaeological practice is shaped by national social and intellectual discourse. Leading Japanese archaeologist Koji Mizoguchi argues that an understanding of the past has been a central component in the creation of national identities and modern nation states and that, since its emergence as a distinct academic discipline in the modern era, archaeology has played an important role in shaping that understanding. By examining in parallel the uniquely intense process of modernisation experienced by Japan and the history of Japanese archaeology, Mizoguchi explores the close interrelationship between archaeology, society and modernity, helping to explain why we do archaeology in the way that we do. This book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the history of archaeology or modern Japan.
Author : Donald Denoon,Gavan McCormack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521003628
This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, Multicultural Japan ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. A timely and provocative discussion of identity politics regarding the question of 'Japaneseness', the book traces the origins of the Japanese, examining Japan's indigenous people and the politics of archaeology, using the latter to link Japan's ancient history with contemporary debates on identity. Also examined are Japan's historical connections with Europe and East and Southeast Asia, ideology, family, culture and past and present.
Author : Simon Kaner,Brian Ayers,Richard Pearson,Oscar Wrenn
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789694277
In recent years, major new archaeological discoveries have redefined the development of towns and cities in Japan. This fully illustrated book provides a sampler of these findings for a western audience. The new discoveries from Japan are set in context of medieval archaeology beyond Japan by accompanying essays from leading European specialists.
Author : Junko Habu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521776708
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Author : Thomas Knopf,Werner Steinhaus,Shin’ya FUKUNAGA
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789690088
This book brings together specialists of the European Bronze and Iron Age and the Japanese Yayoi and Kofun periods for the first time to discuss burial mounds in a comparative context. The book aims to strengthen knowledge of Japanese archaeology in Europe and vice versa.
Author : J. Edward Kidder
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824862848
The third-century Chinese chronicle Wei zhi (Record of Wei) is responsible for Japan’s most enduring ancient mystery. This early history tells of a group of islands off the China coast that were dominated by a female shaman named Himiko. Himiko ruled for more than half a century as head of the largest chiefdom, traditionally known as Yamatai, until her death in 248. Yet no such person appears in the old Japanese literature. Who was Himiko and where was the Yamatai she governed? In this, the most comprehensive treatment in English to date, a senior scholar of early Japan turns to three sources—historical, archaeological, and mythological—to provide a multifaceted study of Himiko and ancient Japanese society.
Author : Richard J. Pearson,Gina Lee Barnes,Karl L. Hutterer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012298637
