Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901) was a leading figure in the cultural revolution that transformed Japan from an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged player in the modern world. He translated a wide range of Western works and adapted them to Japanese needs, inventing a colorful prose style close to the vernacular. He also authored many books, ...
Yukichi Fukuzawa rose from low samurai origins to become one of the finest intellectuals and social thinkers of modern Japan. Through his best-selling works, he helped transform an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged international force. In Outline of a Theory of Civilization, the author's most sustained philosophical text, Fukuzawa ...
Description: Tokyo 1973 1st Sophia University. Translated by David A. Dilworth and G. Cameron Hurst. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 205pp., cloth. Near Fine, slight wrinkle in cloth on lower spine end, in VG plus DJ. Scarce. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Kaido zohan
Date Published: 1860
Description: First edition, later issue (with white vs. pink title-p. ) of Fukuzawa's first book, 8vo, 104 leaves xylographically printed, and sewn in the Oriental manner, original yellow wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover; very good copy. Fukuzawa (1835-1901) "was a Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and political theorist who founded Keio University. His ideas about government and social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the Meiji ... read more
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