七十多年前,畢生未曾踏上日本國土的美國人類學家露絲.潘乃德,透過運用文化人類學方法分析日本國民的性格,留下經典不朽的著作《菊與刀》(The Chrysanthemum and the Sword);超過半個世紀之後,負笈日本超過十年的民俗學家蔡亦竹,將透過其學術專業,從民俗學角度切入,為讀者精闢剖析日本人的原型以及日本文化的村落性格。
This book provides an interesting point of view to understand Japanese society. Most of what we know today originated in late 19th century, or later in 1978 such as Yasukuni Shrine, which was found in 1869, became controversial in Asia because it enshrined criminal personnel involved in WWII.