The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (Penguin history)
by Morris, Ivan
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140263527
- ISBN 13
- 9780140263527
- Seller
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Synopsis
Ivan Morris studied Japanese language and culture at Harvard University while serving in the Intelligence Section of the U.S. Navy Reserves. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1951, he worked for the Far East Section of the BBC as well as for the Japan and Pacific departments of the British Foreign Office. He lived in Tokyo for several years, writing, lecturing, and teaching. In 1960 he joined what would later be renamed the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, where he served as department chair. He was elected a Fellow of St. Anthony’s College at Oxford in 1966. Morris published numerous books on Japanese history, literature, and politics and produced distinguished translations of classical and contemporary Japanese works. He died in 1976.
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- Bookseller
- Savernake Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024850
- Title
- The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (Penguin history)
- Author
- Morris, Ivan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0140263527
- ISBN 13
- 9780140263527
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London, U.K
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.