The Japanese Experience: A Short History of Japan Book

	List of maps
	List of illustrations
	Japanese words, names and dates
	Introduction: Patterns and Periods
1	Origins	1
	Myths	2
	Archaeology	7
	The Yamato state	11
	Primitive religion	16
2	The Making of a Monarchy	19
	Chinese-style government	20
	Capital cities	30
	The Fujiwara regents	34
3	Buddhism and Chinese Culture	41
	Buddhism and Shinto	42
	Tribute missions and Chinese learning	48
	Literature, art and music	54
4	The Ebbing of the Chinese Tide	61
	Public land, private land	62
	The rise of a warrior class after 800	66
	Heian culture	69
5	Japanese Feudalism	78
	The Kamakura Bakufu (1185-1333)	80
	Feudalism in the Muromachi period (1336-1460)	89
6	Medieval Culture 1200-1450	98
	Buddhism	100
	Prose literature and drama	104
	Chinese influence on the arts	110
7	The Unifiers	116
	Warfare and warlords (1460-1560)	117
	Nobunaga and Hideyoshi (1560-1598)	122
	The Tokugawa settlement (1600-1650)	128
8	Relations with Asia and Europe 1500-1700	134
	The China trade	135
	Korea and Ryukyu	141
	Christianity and seclusion	147
9	Edo Society	152
	The ruling class	153
	The village and the town	161
10	Edo Culture	171
	Chinese thought, Japanese thought	172
	Literature and the arts	178
11	The Coming of the West 1840-1873	188
	Unequal treaties	189
	Nationalism and politics	196
	Study of the West	203
12	The Modern State	210
	Political institutions	211
	Social change	219
	Tradition and modernity	225
13	Fifty Years of Foreign Wars 1894-1945	230
	Industry and empire	231
	The struggle for Greater East Asia	241
14	Postwar Japan	251
	Glossary	269
	Bibliography	275
	Index	287