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One of the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-western semiotic system. This book looks at Japanese
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For more than 1500 years, Confucianism has played a major role in shaping Japan's history - from the formation of t
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There have been many studies that focus on aspects of the history of Japanese Buddhism. Until now, none have addressed i
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the relative calm world of Japanese Buddhist scholarship was thrown into chaos with t
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From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century indus
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This is the first comprehensive study of socially and politically engaged Buddhism in the lands of its origin. Nine acco
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