Herbert Paul Varley (February 8, 1931 – December 15, 2015) was an American
academic,
historian,
author, and
Japanologist.
He was an emeritus professor at
Columbia University and
Sen Sōshitsu XV Professor of Japanese Cultural History at the
University of Hawaii.
Career
Among other interests, his research focused on the
Kamakura period
The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the Genpei War, which saw the struggle betwee ...
and
Muromachi period in the
history of Japan
The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to prehistoric times around 30,000 BC. The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inven ...
.
Selected works
In an overview of writings by and about Varley,
OCLC
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WorldCat lists roughly 38 works in 124 publications in 6 languages and 8,208 library holdings.
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* 1967 -
''The Onin War; history of its origins and background with a selective translation of the Chronicle of Onin.''New York:
Columbia University Press.
* 1968 -
''A Syllabus of Japanese Civilization.''New York: Columbia University Press.
* 1971 -- ''Imperial Restoration in Medieval Japan.'' New York: Columbia University Press.
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.
* 1994 -
''Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales.''Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
* 2000—Japanese Culture. 4th Edition. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Honors
*
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays With Rosette, 1969.
Columbia University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Faculty Profiles
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Notes
References
* Mass, Jeffrey P. (1995)
''Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History.''
Stanford: Stanford University Press.
External links
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1931 births
2017 deaths
Columbia University faculty
American Japanologists
Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class
American historians