Published for the Yamato Society, which hoped the West would come to admire Japan for more than its armies, this survey runs from the origins of the nation through the court at Nara and Kyoto, the rise of the warrior class, the Kamakura shogunate and its fall in 1334, and on through the Tokugawa age toward modern Japan.
A rare early overview written in English from inside the Japanese historical tradition. Download the free EPUB.