H. Paul Varley

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

Varley's early work was influenced by Kan'ichi Asakawa at Yale University.

Among other interests, his research focused on the Kamakura period and Muromachi period in the history of Japan.

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.

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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.

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
• In Memoriam: University of Hawaii