Seventy Nine Letters From Kyoto

Author : Martin Gliman
Publisher : Martin Gliman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seventy-Nine Letters from Kyoto written by Martin Gliman and published by Martin Gliman. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Namiko. She travels to Oxford to improve her English. After having returned to Japan she starts writing seventy-nine love-letters.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2110 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pearl Harbor Attack written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 2110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suzanne Gay
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864883
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto written by Suzanne Gay and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto examines the large community of sake brewer-moneylenders in Japan's capital city, focusing on their rise to prominence from the mid-1300s to 1550. Their guild tie to overlords, notably the great monastery Enryakuji, was forged early in the medieval period, giving them a protected monopoly and allowing them to flourish. Demand for credit was strong in medieval Kyoto, and brewers profitably recirculated capital for loans. As the medieval period progressed, the brewer-lenders came into their own. While maintaining overlord ties, they engaged in activities that brought them into close contact with every segment of Kyoto's population. The more socially prominent brewers served as tax agents for religious institutions, the shogunate, and the imperial court, and were actively involved in a range of cultural pursuits including tea and linked verse. Although the merchants themselves left only the faintest record, Suzanne Gay has fully and convincingly depicted this important group of medieval commoners.

Author : Martin Gliman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781105456565
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Kyoto with Love written by Martin Gliman and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Namiko. She travels from Kyoto to Oxford to improve her English. After having returned to Japan she starts writing seventy-nine love-letters.

Author : Andreas de Guttry
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900450799X
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) Events written by Andreas de Guttry and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume investigates to what extent the international and European Union legal frameworks applicable to Chemical, Biological and Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) events are adequate to face current challenges. It is innovative in many aspects: it adopts an all-hazard approach to CBRN risks, focusing on events of intentional, accidental and natural origin; it explores international obligations according to the four phases of the emergency cycle, including prevention, preparedness, response and recovery; and it covers horizontal issues such as protection of human rights, international environmental law, new technologies, the role of private actors, as well as enforcement mechanisms and remedies available to victims. The book thus offers a new way of looking at the applicable rules of international law in this field.

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Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japan Daily Mail written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yasuhiro Yonekawa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3211765891
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Aspects in Stroke Surgery: Aneurysms, Dissection, Moyamoya angiopathy and EC-IC Bypass written by Yasuhiro Yonekawa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is arterial dissection? What is Moyamoya angiopathy? What is the state-of-the-art of AVM treatment? Readers will find answers to these questions in this book. They will also be informed about the state-of-the-art treatment in the daily stroke therapy.

Author : Charles Sanft
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438475136
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literate Community in Early Imperial China written by Charles Sanft and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China’s northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period. This book examines ancient written materials from China’s northwestern border regions to offer fresh insights into the role of text in shaping society and culture during the Han period (206/2 BCE–220 CE). Left behind by military installations, these documents—wooden strips and other nontraditional textual materials such as silk—recorded the lives and activities of military personnel and the people around them. Charles Sanft explores their functions and uses by looking at a fascinating array of material, including posted texts on signaling across distances, practical texts on brewing beer and evaluating swords, and letters exchanged by officials working in low rungs of the bureaucracy. By focusing on all members of the community, he argues that a much broader section of early society had meaningful interactions with text than previously believed. This major shift in interpretation challenges long-standing assumptions about the limited range of influence that text and literacy had on culture and society and makes important contributions to early China studies, the study of literacy, and to the global history of non-elites. “Sanft’s analysis fills out what is still a rather sparse picture of life in non-elite, nonofficial social circles. For the first time ever, we learn how women might have been included in a literate community along the ancient northwestern frontier, and we also learn how soldiers and other members of the uneducated or semiliterate public made use of the extensive knowledge that texts conveyed in their work and lives. None of this information is apparent from traditionally received texts. Sanft therefore does the field a great favor by systematically laying the foundations for a broader understanding of all levels of society, as well as an understanding of how these levels interconnect through systems of knowledge expressed through text.” — Erica Fox Brindley, author of Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c. 400 BCE–50 CE

Author : Lori R. Meeks
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824860640
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan written by Lori R. Meeks and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hokkeji, an ancient Nara temple that once stood at the apex of a state convent network established by Queen-Consort Komyo (701–760), possesses a history that in some ways is bigger than itself. Its development is emblematic of larger patterns in the history of female monasticism in Japan. In Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan, Lori Meeks explores the revival of Japan’s most famous convent, an institution that had endured some four hundred years of decline following its establishment. With the help of the Ritsu (Vinaya)-revivalist priest Eison (1201–1290), privately professed women who had taken up residence at Hokkeji succeeded in reestablishing a nuns’ ordination lineage in Japan. Meeks considers a broad range of issues surrounding women’s engagement with Buddhism during a time when their status within the tradition was undergoing significant change. The thirteenth century brought women greater opportunities for ordination and institutional leadership, but it also saw the spread of increasingly androcentric Buddhist doctrine. Hokkeji explores these contradictions. In addition to addressing the socio-cultural, economic, and ritual life of the convent, Hokkeji examines how women interpreted, used, and "talked past" canonical Buddhist doctrines, which posited women’s bodies as unfit for buddhahood and the salvation of women to be unattainable without the mediation of male priests. Texts associated with Hokkeji, Meeks argues, suggest that nuns there pursued a spiritual life untroubled by the so-called soteriological obstacles of womanhood. With little concern for the alleged karmic defilements of their gender, the female community at Hokkeji practiced Buddhism in ways resembling male priests: they performed regular liturgies, offered memorial and other priestly services to local lay believers, and promoted their temple as a center for devotional practice. What distinguished Hokkeji nuns from their male counterparts was that many of their daily practices focused on the veneration of a female deity, their founder Queen-Consort Komyo, whom they regarded as a manifestation of the bodhisattva Kannon. Hokkeji rejects the commonly accepted notion that women simply internalized orthodox Buddhist discourses meant to discourage female practice and offers new perspectives on the religious lives of women in premodern Japan. Its attention to the relationship between doctrine and socio-cultural practice produces a fuller view of Buddhism as it was practiced on the ground, outside the rarefied world of Buddhist scholasticism.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pearl Harbor Attack written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: