The Invention of a New Religion

Klappentext Basil Chamberlain was a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University. He wrote some of the earliest translations of haikus. His best known work is the encyclopedia Things Japanese. This was a popular one volume informal discussion of Japanese written in 1890. Chamberlain begins this pamphlet by saying, "Mikado-worship and Japan-worship--for that is the new Japanese religion--is, of course, no spontaneously generated phenomenon. Every manufacture presupposes a material out of which it is made, every present a past on which it rests. But the twentieth-century Japanese religion of loyalty and patriotism is quite new, for in it pre-existing ideas have been sifted, altered, freshly compounded, turned to new uses, and have found a new centre of gravity."

Product details

• Authors: Basil H Chamberlain, Basil Hall Chamberlain
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.08.2008
• EAN: 9781605979991
• ISBN: 978-1-60597-999-1
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History