Herbert Paul Varley (February 8, 1931 – December 15, 2015) is an American academic, historian, author, and Japanologist. He is a former 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 30+ works in 120+ publications in 6 languages and 8,200+ library holdings. This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it. The Onin War; history of its origins and background with a selective translation of the Chronicle of Onin, 1967 A Syllabus of Japanese Civilization, 1968 Imperial Restoration in Medieval Japan, 1971 Japanese Culture: a Short History, 1973 A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1980 Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales, 1994
Honors
Order of the Rising Sun, 1969.
Notes
Other websites
Varley, H. Paul at Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
