Hardcover with dust jacket showing some rubbing to glossy finish. Some wear noted to corners, edges and head of spine. Red cloth cover with gold lettering to spine. Some bumping noted to corners and wrinkling to head and tail of spine. Pages clean and bright and filled with photographs. This book is based on the major BBC television series of the same title, reveals in photographs of great visual beauty how an uniquely Japancese blending of Western techniques and indigenous social organisation has produced "Japanese spirit with Western Technology".

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Title: The Shogun Inheritance: Japan and the Legacy of the Samurai
Publisher: A & W Publishers, Inc.
Publication Date: 1982
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0894791109
ISBN 13: 9780894791109
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

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Japan has since the Second World War challenged the industrial giants of the West on their own ground with triumphant success. Yet she remains a profoundly traditional — even feudal — society. The paradox is not simply that these two very different attitudes coexist in Modern Japan: it is rather that the one actually grows out of the other. Japan has become a mighty industrial power largely because of her traditional values and disciplines. Michael Macintyre has taken his camera in search of the evidence of Japanese tradition, and has found it in a variety of fascinating, and sometimes unexpected, places. In the heart of this modern industrial society the shrine festivals ﬂourish, with their parades of samurai and courtiers. The age—old martial arts and the cult of the sword live on alongside the gentler pursuits of the tea ceremony and ﬂower arrangement. The theatre of Noh, Kabuki and Bunraku continue their ancient traditions, and the geishas of Kyoto, though they are beco

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