Essays On Japan

Author : Paul Varley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824817176
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tea in Japan written by Paul Varley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Represents a major advance over previous publications.... Students will find this volume especially useful as an introduction to the primary sources, terminology, and dominant themes in the history of chanoyu." --Journal of Japanese Studies "Tea in Japan illuminates in depth and detail chanoyu's cultural connections and evolution from the early Kamakura period... It is the quality of seeing the familiar and not so familiar elements of tea emerge as a dynamic saga of human invention and cultural intervention that makes this book exhilarating and the details that the authors provide that make these essays fascinating." --Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese

Author : Steven D. Carter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537557
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays written by Steven D. Carter and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu—a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu is unrivaled in the Japanese literary tradition, which may explain why few examples have been translated into English. The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays presents a representative selection of more than one hundred zuihitsu from a range of historical periods written by close to fifty authors—from well-known figures, such as Matsuo Basho, Natsume Soseki, and Koda Aya, to such writers as Tachibana Nankei and Dekune Tatsuro, whose works appear here for the first time in English. Writers speak on the experience of coming down with a cold, the aesthetics of tea, the physiology and psychology of laughter, the demands of old age, standards of morality, the way to raise children, the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the thoughts that accompany sleeplessness, the anxiety of undergoing surgery, and the unexpected benefits of training a myna bird to say "Thank you." These essays also provide moving descriptions of snowy landscapes, foggy London, the famous cherry blossoms of Ueno Park, and the appeal of rainy vistas, and relate the joys and troubles of everyone from desperate samurai to filial children to ailing cats.

Author : A. Minh Nguyen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739180827
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics written by A. Minh Nguyen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection begins with an engaging historical overview of Japanese aesthetics and offers contemporary multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Japan and the central themes in Japanese art and aesthetics.

Author : Michael Marra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004195947
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Japan written by Michael Marra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Japan is a compilation of Professor Michael F. Marra’s essays written in the past ten years on the topics of Japanese literature, Japanese aesthetics, and the space between the two subjects.

Author : Aizan Yamaji
Publisher : U of M Center For Japanese Studies
ISBN 13 : 047203829X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Modern Japanese Church written by Aizan Yamaji and published by U of M Center For Japanese Studies. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the Modern Japanese Church (Gendai Nihon kyokai shiron), published in 1906, was the first Japanese-language history of Christianity in Meiji Japan. Yamaji Aizan’s firsthand account describes the reintroduction of Christianity to Japan—its development, rapid expansion, and decline—and its place in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Meiji period. Yamaji’s overall argument is that Christianity played a crucial role in shaping the growth and development of modern Japan. Yamaji was a strong opponent of the government-sponsored “emperor-system ideology,” and through his historical writing he tried to show how Japan had a tradition of tolerance and openness at a time when government-sponsored intellectuals were arguing for greater conformity and submissiveness to the state on the basis of Japanese “national character.” Essays is important not only in terms of religious history but also because it highlights broad trends in the history of Meiji Japan. Introductory chapters explore the significance of the work in terms of the life and thought of its author and its influence on subsequent interpretations of Meiji Christianity.

Author : John Whitney Hall
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804715119
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Japan written by John Whitney Hall and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays tackles a neglected field of Japan's history.

Author : Harumi Kimura
Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 : 9004213058
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Japan written by Harumi Kimura and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises 70 essays by private individuals living in Japan (members of a writing club) who have chosen a subject to write about with a view to projecting a genuine insight into the events, issues and aspirations that make them who they are – from life in a condominium to dealing with in-laws, early retirement, life after children.

Author : Craig Mod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998221489
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pachinko Road written by Craig Mod and published by . This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gail Lee Bernstein
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan in Crisis written by Gail Lee Bernstein and published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic study of culture and politics in early twentieth-century Japan.

Author : Janet Ashby
Publisher : Kodansha International
ISBN 13 : 9781568364148
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Read real Japanese written by Janet Ashby and published by Kodansha International. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Writings by Haruki Murakami, Junko Sakai, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Banana Yoshimoto, Kou Machida, Yoko Ogawa, Keiichiro Hirano, Hideo Levy. 8 stimulating essays with translations of all the complex passages. Japanese-English dictionary for quick lookup, tailored to your needs. Notes explain subtleties of nuance, usage, grammar and culture. CD with audio narrations performed by a professional actress. Profiles of the individual writers place the work in context."--Publisher.