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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460434703321

Autore

Dore Ronald Philip

Titolo

Education in Tokugawa Japan / / R.P. Dore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2011, c1965

ISBN

1-136-92693-3

1-136-92694-1

1-283-03852-8

9786613038524

0-203-84540-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions.Japan ; ; v. 33

Disciplina

370.952

952.031

Soggetti

Education - Japan - History

Electronic books.

Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868

Japan Social conditions 1600-1868

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1965.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

SOURCES CITEDINDEX AND GLOSSARY

Sommario/riassunto

Japanese cultural life had reached a low ebb at the beginning of the Tokugawa period. The Japanese society which emerged when



Tokugawa Ieyasu had completed the process of pacifying warring baronies was neither literary, nor hardly literate. The rulers were warriors and the people they ruled were largely illiterate. 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