{"product_id":"the-empire-of-the-east-gb-28690","title":"The Empire of the East","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Empire of the East\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eON my return from another visit to Japan a few months\r\nago I found those persons in this country with whom\r\nI was brought into close association extremely curious and\r\nstrangely ignorant regarding that ancient Empire. Despite\r\nthe multitude of books which have of late years been published\r\nabout Japan and things Japanese a correct knowledge\r\nof the country and the people is, so far as I can judge,\r\naltogether lacking in England. Indeed the multiplicity of\r\nbooks may have something to do with that fact, as many\r\nof them have been written by persons whose knowledge,\r\nacquired in the course of a flying visit, was, to say the least,\r\nperfunctory, and who had no opportunities for viewing the\r\nlife of the people from within and forming a sound judgment\r\non many matters upon which the writers have\r\ndogmatically pronounced. I, accordingly, came to the\r\nconclusion not only that there was room for one more book\r\non Japan, but that another book was greatly neededa book\r\nnot technical, historical, abstruse or recondite, but a book\r\ndescribing in simple language Japan as it was, is, and will\r\nbe. This is the task I set before myself when I commenced\r\nto write this volume, and the reader must be the judge to\r\nwhat extent I have been successful in the accomplishment\r\n[vi]\r\nthereof. I have touched but lightly on the material\r\ndevelopment of the country of recent years. I know from\r\nexperience that though statistics are the fad of a few they\r\nare caviare to the great mass of the public. Nor have I\r\ndealt at all with politics or political parties in new Japan.\r\nIt is, I think, unfortunate that the Japanese people, in\r\nadopting or adapting English institutions, should have\r\nintroduced the political party system so much in evidence\r\nin Great Britain and other European countries. Whether\r\nthat system works well in the West, where it has been in\r\nexistence for centuries and is not always taken over-seriously\r\nby party politicians themselves, is a question\r\nupon which I shall express no opinion. But I think it is\r\nproblematical whether such a system is well adapted for\r\nan Oriental people, possessed of and permeated by an\r\nancient civilisationa people whose feelings, sentiments,\r\nmodes of thought, prejudices and passions are so essentially\r\ndifferent from those of Western nations. Be that\r\nas it may, Japanese politics find no place in this work.\nThe morality or otherwise of the Japanese is a matter\r\nwhich has been much discussed and written about. The\r\nviews of speakers and writers in regard thereto, so far as I\r\nhave been able to ascertain them, have been largely affected\r\nby their prejudices or the particular standpoint from which\r\nthey have regarded the matter. The result, in my opinion,\r\nhas been that an entirely erroneous conception of the\r\nwhole subject of Japanese morality has not only been\r\nformed but has been set forth in speech or writing, and a\r\ngrave injustice has been done to the Japanese in this\r\n[vii]\r\nmatter, to say nothing of the entirely false view of the whole\r\nquestion which has been promulgated. In this book I have\r\nendeavoured to deal with this thorny subject, so far as it\r\ncan be dealt with in a book, free from prejudice or preconceived\r\nideas of any kind. I have simply confined\r\nmyself to facts, and have endeavoured to represent the\r\nwhole matter as it appears to the Japanese and to morality\r\naccording to the Japanese standard.\nI have deemed it necessary to deal at some length\r\nwith the various phases of Japanese art, which it is no\r\nexaggeration to say has permeated the whole nation so\r\nthat the Japanese may truthfully be termed the most\r\nartistic people in the world. Of course it is impossible to\r\ndeal exhaustively in a work of this kind with Japanese art.\r\nI have, however, endeavoured to describe the principal art\r\nindustries of the country and to set forth what I may term\r\nthe catholicity of art in Japan. I have also dealt with the\r\nquestion how far art has been affected by the Europeanising\r\nof the nation which has taken place of recent years, and\r\nthe effect thereof.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 28690 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 4, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Montgomery, H. B. 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