{"product_id":"the-invention-of-a-new-basil-hall-chamberlain-9781604249644","title":"The Invention of a New Religion","description":"Basil Chamberlain was a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University. He wrote some of the earliest translations of haikus. His best known work is the encyclopedia Things Japanese. This was a popular one volume informal discussion of Japanese written in 1890. Chamberlain begins this pamphlet by saying, \"Mikado-worship and Japan-worship--for that is the new Japanese religion--is, of course, no spontaneously generated phenomenon. Every manufacture presupposes a material out of which it is made, every present a past on which it rests. But the twentieth-century Japanese religion of loyalty and patriotism is quite new, for in it pre-existing ideas have been sifted, altered, freshly compounded, turned to new uses, and have found a new centre of gravity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Basil Hall Chamberlain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1604249641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781604249644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Book Jungle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.10d","brand":"Basil Hall Chamberlain","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48217482363135,"sku":"9781604249644","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9bf5c0d2-7a71-4012-9c97-b9afe64960dc.jpg?v=1771997510","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-invention-of-a-new-basil-hall-chamberlain-9781604249644","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}