HSE Publishing House

The book includes research by leading contemporary Russian Japanologists and the workof young authors. Topics of articles and short messages — word and performance in Japanese culture, the world of ideas of Japanese literature, religions of Japan, history and philosophical thought of the Tokugawa era, Russian-Japanese relations. Several studies have focused on the current topic of epidemics and the response to them in Japanese culture, past and present.The book includes several texts from Japanese poetry, didactic tales etc., first translated into Russian.
For anyone interested in Japanese history and culture.