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Uncover the true story of the man who unified medieval Japan. For
700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war
against one another incessantly. Shogun tells the fascinating story
of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who finally unified and brought lasting
peace to the nation. He established a new central government which
enabled his descendants to rule Japan for the next 260 years--a
period in which Japanese culture as we know it today flourished.
The dramatic episodes retold in this book include: Ieyasu's
crushing victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, the largest battle
ever fought in Japan His creation of a new form of government with
a centralized system of control that allowed his descendants to
rule Japan peacefully for the next 15 generations Ieyasu's fateful
decision to limit the spread of Christianity in Japan, ultimately
banning the religion and massacring tens of thousands of ardent
believers This new edition highlights the drama and pageantry of
Ieyasu's life and features a new foreword by leading Japanese
military historian Alexander Bennett.
1928. Being two thirteenth-century Japanese classics, the Hojoki
and selections from the Heike Monogatari. The Hojoki consists of
the reflections of a recluse who had retired in disgust from a
world that was too full of violent contrasts and cataclysms, both
of animate and inanimate nature, to allow a sensitive person to
find it at all tolerable. If, though there are some Japanese
scholars who question it, tradition ascribes this work truly to
Kamono-chomei, it was disappointment at not being allowed to
succeed to the ancestral position of Lord Warden of the Shrine of
Kamo in Kyoto that caused him to forsake the world and go to live
in the hills. As can be seen from the Heike Monogatari, which
describes the period in more detail, Chomei was not singular in
being thus arbitrarily deprived of position and income, neither was
he the only one who sought refuge in nature and Buddhist
philosophy.
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
1928. Being two thirteenth-century Japanese classics, the Hojoki
and selections from the Heike Monogatari. The Hojoki consists of
the reflections of a recluse who had retired in disgust from a
world that was too full of violent contrasts and cataclysms, both
of animate and inanimate nature, to allow a sensitive person to
find it at all tolerable. If, though there are some Japanese
scholars who question it, tradition ascribes this work truly to
Kamono-chomei, it was disappointment at not being allowed to
succeed to the ancestral position of Lord Warden of the Shrine of
Kamo in Kyoto that caused him to forsake the world and go to live
in the hills. As can be seen from the Heike Monogatari, which
describes the period in more detail, Chomei was not singular in
being thus arbitrarily deprived of position and income, neither was
he the only one who sought refuge in nature and Buddhist
philosophy.
1928. Being two thirteenth-century Japanese classics, the Hojoki
and selections from the Heike Monogatari. The Hojoki consists of
the reflections of a recluse who had retired in disgust from a
world that was too full of violent contrasts and cataclysms, both
of animate and inanimate nature, to allow a sensitive person to
find it at all tolerable. If, though there are some Japanese
scholars who question it, tradition ascribes this work truly to
Kamono-chomei, it was disappointment at not being allowed to
succeed to the ancestral position of Lord Warden of the Shrine of
Kamo in Kyoto that caused him to forsake the world and go to live
in the hills. As can be seen from the Heike Monogatari, which
describes the period in more detail, Chomei was not singular in
being thus arbitrarily deprived of position and income, neither was
he the only one who sought refuge in nature and Buddhist
philosophy.
1928. Being two thirteenth-century Japanese classics, the Hojoki
and selections from the Heike Monogatari. The Hojoki consists of
the reflections of a recluse who had retired in disgust from a
world that was too full of violent contrasts and cataclysms, both
of animate and inanimate nature, to allow a sensitive person to
find it at all tolerable. If, though there are some Japanese
scholars who question it, tradition ascribes this work truly to
Kamono-chomei, it was disappointment at not being allowed to
succeed to the ancestral position of Lord Warden of the Shrine of
Kamo in Kyoto that caused him to forsake the world and go to live
in the hills. As can be seen from the Heike Monogatari, which
describes the period in more detail, Chomei was not singular in
being thus arbitrarily deprived of position and income, neither was
he the only one who sought refuge in nature and Buddhist
philosophy.
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