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.
Career
Among other interests, his research focused on the Kamakura period and Muromachi period in the history of Japan.Hardacre, Helen. (1998). The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States, p. 57.
Selected works In an overview of writings by and about Varley, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 38 works in 124 publications in 6 languages and 8,208 library holdings. WorldCat Identities: Varley, H. Paul; retrieved 2012-11-1. This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it. 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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References Mass, Jeffrey P. (1995). Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
External links Urasenke Konnichian website