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Paul Varley

Herbert Paul Varley (February 8, 1931 –

December 15, 2015) was an American
academic, historian, author, and
Japanologist.[1] He was an emeritus
professor at Columbia University and Sen
Sōshitsu XV Professor of Japanese
Cultural History at the University of
Hawaii.[2][1]

Career
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 38
works in 124 publications in 6 languages
and 8,208 library holdings.[4]

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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.
ISBN 978-0-231-02943-8
1968 -- A Syllabus of Japanese
Civilization. New York: Columbia
University Press. OCLC 268563
1971 -- Imperial Restoration in Medieval
Japan. New York: Columbia University
Press. ISBN 978-0-231-03502-6; 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. ISBN 978-0-231-
04940-5
1994 -- Warriors of Japan as Portrayed
in the War Tales. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-
1601-8
2000—Japanese Culture. 4th Edition.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Honors
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays With
Rosette, 1969.[5]

Notes
1. "In Memoriam: Emeritus Japanese
History Professor H. Paul Varley" . Center
for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai'i
at Manoa. 13 January 2016. Retrieved
2017-11-20.
2. AuthorTree.com
3. Hardacre, Helen. (1998). The Postwar
Development of Japanese Studies in the
United States, p. 57 .
4. WorldCat Identities : Varley, H. Paul ;
retrieved 2012-11-1.
5. Columbia University, Department of
East Asian Languages and Cultures,
Faculty Profiles

References
Mass, Jeffrey P. (1995). Antiquity and
Anachronism in Japanese History.
 Stanford: Stanford University Press.
ISBN 978-0-8047-2592-7

External links
Urasenke Konnichian website

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