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1 online resource (371 pages) |
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BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PLATES; TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter I SCHOLARSHIP AND EDUCATION: A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE PERIOD; Chapter II THE AIMS OF SAMURAI EDUCATION IN THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD; Chapter III THE FIEF SCHOOLS; Chapter IV THE TRADITIONAL CURRICULUM; Chapter V INNOVATIONS; Chapter VI TALENT, TRAINING AND THE SOCIAL ORDER; Chapter VII THE GOMMONER AND HIS MASTERS; Chapter VIII TERAKOYA; Chapter IX THE CONTENT OF TERAKOYA EDUCATION; Chapter X THE LEGACY; Appendix 1 SCHOOL ATTENDANGE AT THE END OF THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD; Appendix II A SET OF TERAKOYA PRECEPTS1 |
| Summary |
The Japanese society which emerged when Tokugawa Ieyasu had completed the process of pacifying warring baronies was neither literary, nor hardly literate.€The Japan of 1868 was a very different society: practically every samurai was literate and it was a world in which books abounded. The transformation which had occurred in these two and a half centuries was an essential precondition for the success of the policy which the leaders of the Meiji Restoration were to adopt. An in-depth survey of the development and education during the period, this book remains one of the key analyses of the |
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Education -- Japan -- History.
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Education
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Social conditions
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Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069473
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Japan -- Social conditions -- 1600-1868. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069574
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203845400 |
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0203845404 |
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