370 Pages
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Routledge
358 Pages
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Routledge
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Japanese cultural life had reached a low ebb at the beginning of the Tokugawa period. The Japanese society which emerged when Tokugawa Ieyasu had completed the process of pacifying warring baronies was neither literary, nor hardly literate. The rulers were warriors and the people they ruled were largely illiterate. The Japan of 1868 was a very different society: practically every samurai was... Read more
1. Scholarship and Education: A General Survey of the Period 2. The Aims of Samurai Education in the Tokugawa Period 3. The Fief Schools 4. The Traditional Curriculum 5. Innovations 6. Talent, Training and the Social Order 7. The Commoner and his Masters 8. Terakoya 9. The Content of Terakoya Education 10. The Legacy Appendices Sources Cited Index and Glossary
Biography
Ronald Dore
