Tradition and modernization in Japanese culture
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Tradition and modernization in Japanese culture
（Studies in the modernization of Japan, 5）（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, 1976, c1971
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"First Princeton paperback printing, 1976"--T.p. verso
"The fifth seminar of the Conference on Modern Japan met in Puerto Rico in January of 1966"--P. xi
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Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowing from the West in the first decades after the Restoration: the formulation of strategies for modernizing and the adaptation of Western models to Meiji culture. In the second half of the volume, the darker side, the pathology of modernization, is seen. The adjustment of the individual and the effects of progressive modernization on culture in an increasingly complex, twentieth-century society are recurring themes. They are illustrated with particular intensity in the experience of such writers as Natsume Soseki and Kobayashi Hideo, in the thought of Nishida Kitaro, and in the millenarian aspects of the new religions.
Originally published in 1971.
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