Understanding Japan: A Cultural History - Season 1

2. Understanding Japan through Ancient Myths

30m

3. The Emergence of the Ritsuryo State

30m

4. Aspects of the Japanese Language

33m

5. Early Japanese Buddhism

31m

6. Heian Court Culture

28m

7. The Rise of the Samurai

29m

8. Pure Land Buddhism and Zen Buddhism

30m

9. Samurai Culture in the Ashikaga Period

29m

10. Japan at Home and Abroad, 1300 - 1600

30m

11. Japan's Isolation in the Tokugawa Period

31m

12. Japanese Theater: Noh and Kabuki

28m

13. The Importance of Japanese Gardens

30m

14. The Meaning of Bushido in a Time of Peace

29m

15. Japanese Poetry: The Road to Haiku

32m

16. Hokusai and the Art of Wood-Block Prints

30m

17. The Meiji Restoration

30m

18. Three Visions of Prewar Japan

32m

19. War without a Master Plan: Japan, 1931 - 1945

29m

20. Japanese Family Life

29m

21. Japanese Foodways

28m

22. Japan's Economic Miracle

31m

23. Kurosawa and Ozu: Two Giants of Film

29m

24. The Making of Contemporary Japan

36m