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020			_a978-4-86658-140-8
040			_afirst lib
082			_a950
084			_2barimt _a63.3(5Jap)-7 _bK 99 _q63
100			_aKyoji W
240			_a63.3(5Jap)-7 K 99
245			_aRemnants of days past _bA journey through old Japan _cTranslated by Joseph Litsch
260			_aTokyo _bPublishing Industry Foundation for Culture _c2020
300			_a471
500			_aГФ 20428
505			_aRemnants of Days Past, by Kyoji Watanabe, is an epic journey into Japan’s past. It is a comprehensive look at the Tokugawa rule and the Edo period, an age in which the civilization of “Old Japan” was still on display and which, for better or worse, ceased to exist with the advent of modernization. Watanabe covers in great detail several topics pertaining to this civilization, including the status and position of the various social classes, views of women and children, attitudes towards sex, labor, and the body and religious beliefs, as well as the unique cosmology behind this civilization. Watanabe makes use of a number of works written by foreign observers who visited Japan from the end of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji to support his views. As the author writes in the book, “What is important in my mind is the reality that the civilization of ‘Old Japan’ developed through a universal desire, as well as the ideas behind this desire, to make it as comfortable as possible for human existence.” This is a massive work that takes an in-depth look at what modern Japan has lost.
546			_aEnglish
653			_ahistory
653			_ahistory of Japan
653			_aculture and ideology
740			_aIllusions of a civilization
740			_aCheerful people
740			_aSimplicity and wealth
740			_aFriendliness and courtesy
740			_aFullness and variety
740			_aLabor and the body
740			_aFreedom and status
740			_aThe naked body and sex
740			_aThe status of women
740			_aA Children's paradise
740			_aScenery and cosmology
740			_aLiving things and cosmology
740			_aReligious beliefs and festivals
740			_aBarriers of the mind
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