The Japanese numbers game : the use and understanding of numbers in modern Japan / Thomas Crump.
Material type: TextSeries: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0203318102
- 9780203318102
- 0203038975
- 9780203038970
- 9781134935581
- 1134935587
- 9786610331604
- 661033160X
- 9781134935598
- 1134935595
- 9781134935543
- 1134935544
- 9781138009233
- 1138009237
- Symbolism in folklore -- Japan
- Numerals -- Folklore
- Symbolism of numbers -- Japan
- Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
- Japan -- Social life and customs
- Symbolisme dans le folklore -- Japon
- Nombres -- Folklore
- Symbolisme des nombres -- Japon
- Japon -- Civilisation -- 1945-
- Japon -- Mœurs et coutumes
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology
- Civilization
- Manners and customs
- Numerals
- Symbolism in folklore
- Symbolism of numbers
- Japan
- Since 1945
- Numbers Sociology
- Japan
- Numbers Sociology
- Japan
- 398/.356/0952 20
- GR340 .C78 1992eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-201) and index.
Print version record.
1. The numerical paradox -- 2. Numbers in the written and spoken language -- 3. Alternative number systems -- 4. The culture of numbers -- 5. What's in a Japanese name? -- 6. Fortune-telling -- 7. Time -- 8. The spatial world of numbers -- 9. The Japanese abacus -- 10. Games : ancient and modern -- 11. The ecology of numbers : past and present.
An almost obsessional use of numbers characterizes Japanese popular culture. A wide variety of numerical formulae and strategies provide the means for explaining events and solving problems occurring in everyday life. These include such matters as the choice of the name for a child, ranking in almost any game or sport, the diagnosis and cure of illness or the decision to accept a new job. This text provides a general study of the field of Japanese popular numeracy. It introduces the reader to a world of numbers in which fortune-telling, the abacus and games involving numbers, as well as cur.
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