H. Paul Varley
Encyclopedia
Herbert Paul Varley is an American
academic, historian
, author
, and Japanologist. He is an emeritus professor at Columbia University
and Sen Sōshitsu
XV Professor of Japanese Cultural History at the University of Hawaii
.
Varley's early work was influenced by Kan'ichi Asakawa
at Yale University
.
United States
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academic, historian
Historian
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, author
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, and Japanologist. He is an emeritus professor at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
and Sen Sōshitsu
Sen Soshitsu
is the name of the head, or iemoto, of the Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony. Sen is the family name and Sōshitsu is the hereditary name assumed by the successor upon becoming iemoto. The first person in this line of the Sen family to use the name Sōshitsu was the youngest son of Sen Sōtan;...
XV Professor of Japanese Cultural History at the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii
The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment...
.
Varley's early work was influenced by Kan'ichi Asakawa
Kan'ichi Asakawa
was a Japanese academic, author, historian, librarian, curator and peace advocate. Asakawa was Japanese by birth and citizenship, but he lived the major portion of his life in the United States.-Early life:...
at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
.
Selected works
- 1967 -- The Onin War; history of its origins and background with a selective translation of the Chronicle of Onin. New York: Columbia University PressColumbia University PressColumbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by James D. Jordan and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fields of literary and cultural studies, history, social work, sociology,...
. 10-ISBN 0-231-02943-8; 13-ISBN 978-0-231-02943-8 - 1968 -- A Syllabus of Japanese Civilization. New York: Columbia University Press. OCLC 268563
- 1971 -- Imperial Restoration in Medieval Japan. New York: Columbia University Press. 10-ISBN 0-231-03502-0; 13-ISBN 978-0-23103502-6; OCLC 142480
- 1973 -- Japanese Culture: a Short History. New York: Prager. OCLC 590531
- 1980 -- A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. 10-ISBN 0-231-04940-4; 13-ISBN 978-0-231-04940-5
- 1994 -- Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 10-ISBN 0-824-81601-3; 13-ISBN 978-0-824-81601-8
Further reading
- Hardacre, HelenHelen HardacreHelen Hardacre is an American academic and Japanologist. At Harvard University, she is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society....
. (1998). The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States. Leiden: Brill PublishersBrill PublishersBrill is an international academic publisher founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands. With offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill today publishes more than 134 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year...
. 10-ISBN 9-004-10981-1; 13-ISBN 978-9-004-10981-0; OCLC 38765047