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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: shortest history of Japan
    sub title: from mythical origins to pop culture powerhouse, the global drama of an ancient island nation
  name:
    name part: Downer, Lesley
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
  abstract: "The story of a small Asian country with extraordinary aesthetic traditions that avoided colonization and overcame the devastation of World War II to become a prosperous modern force, while preserving its unique culture"--
  table of contents: List of maps -- Chronology -- Introduction: Before time began -- Children of the Sun, 400 BCE-710 CE -- Nara: The flowering of Buddhism, 710-794 CE -- Heian: City of purple hills and crystal streams, 794-1180 -- Kamakura: Rise of the Samurai, 1180-1333 -- Muromachi: Beauty and turmoil, 1333-1573 -- Azuchi Momoyama: The men who would be Shogun, 1573-1603 -- Edo: Tokugawa Renaissance, 1603-1853 -- Bakumatsu: Fall of the Tokugawa, 1853-1868 -- Meiji: Headlong into the modern world, 1868-1912 -- Taisho: Crosscurrents, 1912-1926 -- Showa: From defeat to prosperity, 1926-1989 -- Heisei: Darker years, 1989-2019 -- Reiwa: A new emperor for a new age, 2019-present -- Further reading -- Image credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the author
  note: Lesley Downer.
  note: Originally published in Australia by Black Inc. First published in revised form in North America by The Experiment, LLC.--Galley.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ja---
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: History
  classification: DS806 .D696 2024
  classification: 952
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Shortest history of Japan
    name:
      name part: Downer, Lesley.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : The Experiment, 2024
    identifier: (DLC) 2024022167
  identifier: 9781891011665
  identifier: 1891011669
  identifier: 9781891011672
  identifier: 2024022166
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240515
    record change date: 20250318223926.1
    record identifier: in00005518088
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng