A. Royden D'souza

The classical period of Japan, culminating in the Tokugawa Pax (Shogunate), bequeathed to modernity a set of unresolved dialectics: the tension between imperial sacrality and military governance; the syncretic entanglement of kami and Buddha; the latent violence of a warrior class stripped of war; and the suspicion of foreign ideologies that nonetheless proved irresistible.