Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta William Wayne Farris
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A Bowl for a Coin
A Bowl for a Coin is the first book in any language to describe and analyze the history of all Japanese teas from the plant's introduction to the archipelago around 750 to the …
War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
This volume is a unique, multi-authored social history of war from the third millennium B.C.E. to the tenth century C.E. in the Mediterranean, the Near East, and Europe (Egypt, …
Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645–900
From tax and household registers, law codes, and other primary sources, as well as recent Japanese sources, William Wayne Farris has developed the first systematic, scientific …
Sacred Texts and Buried Treasure
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 …
Bowl for a Coin
Japan to 1600
Japan to 1600 traces Japanese historical development from the first evidence of human habitation in the archipelago to the consolidation of political power under the Tokugawa …
Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan
For centuries, scholars have wondered what daily life was like for the common people of Japan, especially for long bygone eras such as the ancient age (700–1150). Using the …
Heavenly Warriors
"In a government, military matters are the essential thing," said Japan's "Heavenly Warrior," the Emperor Temmu, in 684. Heavenly Warriors traces in detail the evolutionary …