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J4150 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture

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J0030 --- J4150 --- Japan: General reference works -- encyclopedia --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture --- Japan --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Social life and customs --- Dictionaries

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Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. Hanley considers daily life in the three centuries leading up to the modern era in Japan. She concludes that people lived much better than has been previously understood--at levels equal or superior to their Western contemporaries. She goes on to illustrate how this high level of physical well-being had important consequences for Japan's ability to industrialize rapidly and for the comparatively smooth transition to a modern, industrial society. While others have used income levels to conclude that the Japanese household was relatively poor in those centuries, Hanley examines the material culture--food, sanitation, housing, and transportation. How did ordinary people conserve the limited resources available in this small island country? What foods made up the daily diet and how were they prepared? How were human wastes disposed of? How long did people live? Hanley answers all these questions and more in an accessible style and with frequent comparisons with Western lifestyles. Her methods allow for cross-cultural comparisons between Japan and the West as well as Japan and the rest of Asia. They will be useful to anyone interested in the effects of modernization on daily life.

Material culture --- Culture matérielle --- Japan --- Japon --- Social life and customs --- History --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Histoire --- J4150 --- J4140.60 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Social life and customs. --- J4150.60

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History of civilization --- Japan --- #gsdb8 --- J4000.70 --- J4150.70 --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō

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An almost obsessional use of numbers characterizes Japanese popular culture. A wide variety of numerical formulae and strategies provide the means for explaining events and solving problems occurring in everyday life. These include such matters as the choice of the name for a child, ranking in almost any game or sport, the diagnosis and cure of illness or the decision to accept a new job. This text provides a general study of the field of Japanese popular numeracy. It introduces the reader to a world of numbers in which fortune-telling, the abacus and games involving numbers, as well as cur

Symbolism in folklore --- Numerals --- Symbolism of numbers --- Folklore --- Number symbolism --- Sacred numbers --- Symbolic numbers --- Mathematics --- Japan --- Civilization --- Social life and customs. --- J1741.70 --- J4150 --- Japan: Religion -- occultism -- numerology --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture