Volume 1 addresses the development, through the eighteenth century, of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism.

Content Description v. 1. From earliest times through the sixteenth century.

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For almost fifty years, Sources of Japanese Tradition has been the single most valuable collection of English-language readings on Japan. Unrivalled in its wide

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