H. Paul Varley
Herbert Paul Varley (February 8, 1931 – December 15, 2015) was an American academic, historian, author, and Japanologist. He was a professor at Columbia University and Sen Sōshitsu XV Professor of Japanese Cultural History at the University of Hawaii.[1]
Career
Varley's early work was influenced by Kan'ichi Asakawa at Yale University.[2]
Among other interests, his research focused on the Kamakura period and Muromachi period in the history of Japan.[3]
Selected works
In an overview of writings by and about Varley, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 30+ works in 120+ publications in 6 languages and 8,200+ library holdings.[4]
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- The Onin War; history of its origins and background with a selective translation of the Chronicle of Onin, 1967
- A Syllabus of Japanese Civilization, 1968
- Imperial Restoration in Medieval Japan, 1971
- Japanese Culture: a Short History, 1973
- A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1980
- Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales, 1994
Honors
- Order of the Rising Sun, 1969.[5]
Notes
- ↑ "AuthorTree.com". Archived from the original on 2011-08-12. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
- ↑ Mass, Jeffrey P. (1995). Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History, p. 15.
- ↑ Hardacre, Helen. (1998). The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States, p. 57.
- ↑ WorldCat Identities: Varley, H. Paul; retrieved 2012-11-1.
- ↑ Columbia University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Faculty Profiles