Great courses (DVD)

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

"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

Closed-captioned

Disc 1.

Japan: a globally engaged island nation -- Understanding Japan through ancient myths -- Emergence of the Ritsuryō state -- Aspects of the Japanese language -- Early Japanese Buddhism -- Heian court culture --

Disc 2.

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.

Important of Japanese gardens -- Meaning of Bushidō in a time of peace -- Japanese poetry: the road to Haiku -- Hokusai and the art of wood-block prints -- 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 -- Making of contemporary Japan