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Author | : Andrew Archer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2018-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781584237150 |
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A captivating work of cultural blending unlike anything created prior, Andrew Archer's Edo Ball must be seen to be believed. This series of paintings seamlessly fuses contemporary basketball imagery with Edo-period Japanese art and culture, with captivating results. Often front and centre, an NBA personality is dramatically reimagined and yet recognizable, surrounded by the myriad trappings of the 'floating' world. Brief accompanying texts describe the thematic connections between each painting's converging themes and explore the roles that culture, community, celebrity, and games play in our daily lives.
Author | : United States. Flight Standards Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Airplanes |
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Download General Aviation Inspection Aids Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Includes annual summary and 11 supplements.
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Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1965-11 |
Genre | : Bus accidents |
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Total Pages | : 1104 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Meteorology |
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Download Climatological Data for the United States by Sections Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region, with monthly and annual national summaries.
Author | : Zoë Marriott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2014-07 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction |
ISBN | : 9781406357950 |
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When Mio steals the family's katana - a priceless ancestral sword - from her parents' attic, she just wants to spice up a fancy-dress costume. But the katana is much more than some dusty antique and her actions unleash a terrible, ancient evil onto the streets of unsuspecting London. Soon Shinobu, a fearless warrior boy, appears to protect Mio - and threatens to steal her heart. With the gods and monsters of Japanese myth stalking her and her friends, Mio realizes that if she cannot keep the sword safe, and learn to control its legendary powers, she will lose not only her own life - but the love of a lifetime.
Author | : Janice P. Nimura |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2015-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393248240 |
Download Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Nimura paints history in cinematic strokes and brings a forgotten story to vivid, unforgettable life." —Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors—Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda—grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later, they returned to Japan—a land grown foreign to them—determined to revolutionize women’s education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment.
Author | : Edo Van Belkom |
Publisher | : Bellingham, Wash. ; North Vancouver : International Self-Counsel Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Horror tales |
ISBN | : 9781551802817 |
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Takes you through the process of creating horror, including the art of suspending reader disbelief, the creation of atmosphere and believable characters, and the seven steps of plotting.
Author | : Gordon Vanstone |
Publisher | : Monsoon Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 191204983X |
Download Rainy Day Ramen and the Cosmic Pachinko Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After three years in Japan, Fred Buchanan is broke, unemployed and engaged in a telepathic turf war with a feral cat behind an Okinawa convenience store. Thus begins his metaphysical odyssey back to Tokyo. Along the way, symbols and sages materialize in the form of a two-fingered jazz musician, the faded tattoo on an ex-yakuza lover, an odd brood of internet cafe refugees, the kite flyer of Kabukicho and Yukie, an alluring hostess with strips of delicious thigh and strange power imbued in the etched eye on her fingernail. Charging through Shinjuku’s neon jungle, enveloped in a boozy, nicotine-stained haze, past and present collide as an empty orchestra croons a slow dance of people and place, memory and madness, loss and love. All the while, Fred struggles to be an agent of his destiny and not another ball bearing bouncing through the cosmic pachinko. Rainy Day Ramen and the Cosmic Pachinko is told as a uniquely clever mix of Murakami-esque magical realism and gonzo Japan travelogue.
Author | : Engelbert Kaempfer |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1999-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824820664 |
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Engelbert Kaempfer's History of Japan was a best-seller from the moment it was published in London in 1727. Born in Westphalia in 1651, Kaempfer traveled throughout the Near and Far East before settling in Japan as physician to the trading settlement of the Dutch East India Company at Nagasaki. During his two years residence, he made two extensive trips around Japan in 1691 and 1692, collecting, according to the British historian Boxer, "an astonishing amount of valuable and accurate information." He also learned all he could from the few Japanese who came to Deshima for instruction in the European sciences. To these observations, Kaempfer added details he had gathered from a wide reading of travelers' accounts and the reports of previous trading delegations. The result was the first scholarly study of Tokugawa Japan in the West, a work that greatly influenced the European view of Japan throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, serving as a reference for a variety of works ranging from encyclopedias to the libretto of "The Mikado." Kaempfer's work remains one of the most valuable sources for historians of the Tokugawa period. The narrative describes what no Japanese was permitted to record (the details of the shogun's castle, for example) and what no Japanese thought worthy of recording (the minutiae of everyday life). However, all previous translations of the History are flawed, being based on the work of an eighteenth-century Swiss translator or that of the German editor some fifty years later who had little knowledge of Japan and resented Kaempfer's praise of the heathen country. Beatrice Bodart-Bailey's impressive new translation of this classic, which reflects careful study of Kaempfer's original manuscript, reclaims the work for the modern reader, placing it in the context of what is currently known about Tokugawa Japan and restoring the humor and freshness of Kaempfer's observations and impressions. In Kaempfer's Japan we have, for the first time, an accurate and thoroughly readable annotated translation of Kaempfer's colorful account of pre-modern Japan.
Author | : Nam-lin Hur |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2020-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684173353 |
Download Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The unique amalgam of prayer and play at the Sensōji temple in Edo is often cited as proof of the “degenerate Buddhism” of the Tokugawa period. This investigation of the economy and cultural politics of Sensōji, however, shows that its culture of prayer and play reflected changes taking place in Tokugawa Japan, particularly in the city of Edo. Hur’s reappraisal of prayer and play and their inherent connectedness provides a cultural critique of conventional scholarship on Tokugawa religion and shows how Edo commoners incorporated cultural politics into their daily lives through the pursuit of prayer and play.