H. Paul Varley

Herbert Paul Varley is an American academic, historian, author, and Japanologist. He is an emeritus professor at Columbia University and Sen Sōshitsu XV Professor of Japanese Cultural History at the University of Hawaii.

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

Honors

• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays With Rosette, 1969.

Selected works

• 1967 -- The Onin War; history of its origins and background with a selective translation of the Chronicle of Onin. New York: Columbia University Press. 10-ISBN 0-231-02943-8; 13-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. 10-ISBN 0-231-03502-0; 13-ISBN 978-0-23103502-6; 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. 10-ISBN 0-231-04940-4; 13-ISBN 978-0-231-04940-5
• 1994 -- Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 10-ISBN 0-824-81601-3; 13-ISBN 978-0-824-81601-8

References

• Mass, Jeffrey P. (1995). Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 10-ISBN 0-804-72592-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-804-72592-7

Further reading

• Hardacre, Helen. (1998). The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States. Leiden: Brill. 10-ISBN 9-004-10981-1; 13-ISBN 978-9-004-10981-0; OCLC 38765047

External links

• Urasenke Konnichian website