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Author | : David T. Suzuki |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Japan conjures up images of tea ceremonies, serene gardens, and Shinto shrines. Suzuki and Oiwa traveled throughout Japan, interviewing men and women who show them another side of the country. The coauthor is Keibo Oiwa.
Author | : Joe Moore |
Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781563248689 |
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The analyses and literary portraits in this text elucidate the existing realities of Japan's postwar history. They address, in chronological fashion, major social, environmental, and feminist issues and conflicts that have attended to Japan's postwar economic miracle.
Author | : Ronald P. Toby |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2019-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 900439351X |
Download Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter with peoples and countries unimagined in earlier discourse provoked an identity crisis, a paradigm shift from a view of the world as comprising only “three countries” (sangoku), i.e., Japan, China and India, to a world of “myriad countries” (bankoku) and peoples. In order to understand the new radical alterities, the Japanese were forced to establish new parameters of difference from familiar, proximate others, i.e., China, Korea and Ryukyu. Toby examines their articulation in literature, visual and performing arts, law, and customs.
Author | : Duncan Ryūken Williams |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691119281 |
Download The Other Side of Zen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, contemplating nothingness. This book presents the "other side of Zen," by examining the movement's explosive growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) in Japan and by shedding light on the broader Japanese religious landscape during the era. Using newly-discovered manuscripts, Duncan Ryuken Williams argues that the success of Soto Zen was due neither to what is most often associated with the sect, Zen meditation, nor to the teachings of its medieval founder, Dogen, but rather to the social benefits it conveyed." "Williams's work is based on careful examination of archival sources including temple logbooks, prayer and funerary manuals, death registries, miracle tales of popular Buddhist deities, secret initiation papers, villagers' diaries, and fundraising donor lists."--Jacket.
Author | : Julia Meech |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2001-03 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Download Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This fascinating study reveals the lesser-known side of this famed architect as an important & avid collector of Japanese art, & the role it played in his life & his architecture. Accompanies an exhibition at the Japan Society, New York.
Author | : Bokushi Suzuki |
Publisher | : Weatherhill, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Snow Country Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Craig Mod |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2019-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780998221489 |
Download Pachinko Road Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Kenneth B. Pyle |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674989082 |
Download Japan in the American Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
No nation was more deeply affected by America’s rise to power than Japan. The price paid to end the most intrusive reconstruction of a nation in modern history was a cold war alliance with the U.S. that ensured American dominance in the region. Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of this relationship at a time when the alliance is changing.
Author | : Matt Alt |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1984826719 |
Download Pure Invention Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured—and transformed—the world’s imagination. “A masterful book driven by deep research, new insights, and powerful storytelling.”—W. David Marx, author of Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style Japan is the forge of the world’s fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga and anime, Pac-Man and Pokémon, online imageboards and emojis. But as Japan media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation, these novelties did more than entertain. They paved the way for our perplexing modern lives. In the 1970s and ’80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, gliding on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in the “lost decades” of deep recession and social dysfunction. The end of the boom should have plunged Japan into irrelevance, but that’s precisely when its cultural clout soared—when, once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and multimedia empires like Dragon Ball Z were more than marketing hits. Artfully packaged, dangerously cute, and dizzyingly fun, these products gave us new tools for coping with trying times. They also transformed us as we consumed them—connecting as well as isolating us in new ways, opening vistas of imagination and pathways to revolution. Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, Pure Invention reveals how Japan’s pop-media complex remade global culture.
Author | : Kenji Nakagami |
Publisher | : Stone Bridge Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2014-02-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1611729106 |
Download The Cape Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Born into the burakumin—Japan’s class of outcasts—Kenji Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in sensual language and stark detail. The Cape is a breakthrough novella about a burakumin community, their troubled memories, and complex family histories. Includes House on Fire and Red Hair. Kenji Nakagami (1946–92) was a prolific writer admired for his vigorous prose style.