Takashis Voyage

Author : Lucinda Churchman Hathaway
Publisher : Down the Shore Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780945582243
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Takashi's Voyage written by Lucinda Churchman Hathaway and published by Down the Shore Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1901, a twelve-year-old Japanese boy is shanghaied and serves as cabinboy aboard the bark Sindia, dealing with homesickness and hardships on the long and exciting journey from Kobe, Japan, to Ocean City, New Jersey.

Author : Patrick Meaney
Publisher : Sequart
ISBN 13 : 1466347805
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Sentence is Up written by Patrick Meaney and published by Sequart. This book was released on 2011 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant Morrison's THE INVISIBLES has been hailed as an ambitious comics masterpiece, the key to Morrison's entire body of work, and the inspiration for THE MATRIX. But it's also frequently written off as incomprehensible.Using a conversational, accessible style, Patrick Meaney (director of GRANT MORRISON: TALKING WITH GODS) opens up THE INVISIBLES through in-depth analysis that makes sense of the series's complicated ideas, fractured chronology, and delirious blend of fiction and reality. Meaney also explores how the series's fictional conspiracy theories fare in the wake of 9/11 and the War on Terror. The book includes an extensive interview with Grant Morrison and an introduction by Timothy Callahan (author of GRANT MORRISON: THE EARLY YEARS).From Sequart Research & Literacy Organization. More info at http://Sequart.org

Author : Janice P. Nimura
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248240
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back written by Janice P. Nimura and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year "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 : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520959175
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maiden Voyage written by Joshua A. Fogel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After centuries of virtual isolation, during which time international sea travel was forbidden outside of Japan’s immediate fishing shores, Japanese shogunal authorities in 1862 made the unprecedented decision to launch an official delegation to China by sea. Concerned by the fast-changing global environment, they had witnessed the ever-increasing number of incursions into Asia by European powers—not the least of which was Commodore Perry’s arrival in Japan in 1853–54 and the forced opening of a handful of Japanese ports at the end of the decade. The Japanese reasoned that it was only a matter of time before they too encountered the same unfortunate fate as China; their hope was to learn from the Chinese experience and to keep foreign powers at bay. They dispatched the Senzaimaru to Shanghai with the purpose of investigating contemporary conditions of trade and diplomacy in the international city. Japanese from varied domains, as well as shogunal officials, Nagasaki merchants, and an assortment of deck hands, made the voyage along with a British crew, spending a total of ten weeks observing and interacting with the Chinese and with a handful of Westerners. Roughly a dozen Japanese narratives of the voyage were produced at the time, recounting personal impressions and experiences in Shanghai. The Japanese emissaries had the distinct advantage of being able to communicate with their Chinese hosts by means of the "brush conversation" (written exchanges in literary Chinese). For their part, the Chinese authorities also created a paper trail of reports and memorials concerning the Japanese visitors, which worked its way up and down the bureaucratic chain of command. This was the first official meeting of Chinese and Japanese in several centuries. Although the Chinese authorities agreed to few of the Japanese requests for trade relations and a consulate, nine years later China and Japan would sign the first bilateral treaty of amity in their history, a completely equal treaty. East Asia—and the diplomatic and trade relations between the region’s two major players in the modern era—would never be the same.

Author : Takashi Yagihashi
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1607742012
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Takashi's Noodles written by Takashi Yagihashi and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 75 recipes from James Beard Award-winning chef Takashi Yagihashi for both traditional and inventive hot and cold Japanese noodle dishes. Combining traditional Japanese influences, French technique, and more than 20 years of cooking in the Midwest, James Beard Award-winning chef Takashi Yagihashi introduces American home cooks to essential Japanese comfort food with his simple yet sophisticated recipes. Emphasizing quick-to-the-table shortcuts, the use of fresh and dried packaged noodles, and kid-friendly dishes, Takashi explains noodle nuances and explores each style's distinct regional identity. An expert guide, Takashi recalls his youth in Japan and takes cooks on a discovery tour of the rich bounty of Japanese noodles, so readily accessible today. Takashi's exuberance for noodles ranging from Aje-Men to Zaru is sure to inspire home cooks to dive into bowl after soothing, refreshing bowl. "A wonderfully talented chef." --Chef Eric Ripert "Noodle fans with a stocked pantry will find plenty to slurp about." --Publishers Weekly

Author : Takashi Iba
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312734841
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words for a Journey: The Art of Being with Dementia written by Takashi Iba and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many with dementia who are living well. They have not given up everything in their lives just because they have the disease. It is a fact that you will have to make some changes in your lifestyle once you have been diagnosed with dementia; but try looking at it this way: if you are going to have to make changes, why not make good ones? Think of it as the start of a new journey: a journey to live well with dementia.This book provides positive, practical hints for living well with dementia. Each hint describes a "context" that people with dementia and the people around experience and a "problem" that is commonly associated with the situation. Following this, a "solution" on how to cope with the problem is described.These hints were determined through interviews, meaning that there are people are living well with dementia by using this knowledge. By sharing these wisdoms with a broad audience, our hope is to make everyone's life with dementia better.

Author : M V TRYST
Publisher : Pencil
ISBN 13 : 935667843X
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luminescence of Love II written by M V TRYST and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the speech of Isamu, a continuation of Akira's speech -x-

Author : Lucinda Churchman Hathaway
Publisher : Down Shore Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781593220341
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Round the World written by Lucinda Churchman Hathaway and published by Down Shore Pub.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being shanghaied aboard the bark Sindia and surviving a shipwreck on the New Jersey Shore, a twelve-year old Japanese boy finds himself thousands of miles from his home and family ¿ alone on the bustling docks of New York City. The year is 1901, and Takashi has made his way to New York¿s South Street Seaport, determined to find passage home. Our resilient young hero¿s adventure continues in this sequel to Takashi¿s Voyage. Set in a changing world ¿ the end of the age of tall ships ¿ Takashi becomes the cabin boy on the Astral, and begins another voyage, this one hopefully taking him home at last.The book includes a nautical glossary, a cookie recipe, and an author¿s note about the difference between fact and fiction in a historical novel.

Author : Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438473923
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Age of Shojo written by Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase examines the role that magazines have played in the creation and development of the concept of shōjo, the modern cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Cloaking their ideas in the pages of girls’ magazines, writers could effectively express their desires for freedom from and resistance against oppressive cultural conventions, and their shōjo characters’ “immature” qualities and social marginality gave them the power to express their thoughts without worrying about the reaction of authorities. Dollase details the transformation of Japanese girls’ fiction from the 1900s to the 1980s by discussing the adaptation of Western stories, including Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, in the Meiji period; the emergence of young female writers in the 1910s and the flourishing girls’ fiction era of the 1920s and 1930s; the changes wrought by state interference during the war; and the new era of empowered postwar fiction. The book highlights seminal author Yoshiya Nobuko’s dreamy fantasies and Kitagawa Chiyo’s social realism, Morita Tama’s autobiographical feminism, the contributions of Nobel Prize–winning author Kawabata Yasunari, and the humorous modern fiction of Himuro Saeko and Tanabe Seiko. Using girls’ perspectives, these authors addressed social topics such as education, same-sex love, feminism, and socialism. The age of shōjo, which began at the turn of the twentieth century, continues to nurture new generations of writers and entice audiences beyond age, gender, and nationality. Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase is Associate Professor of Japanese at Vassar College.

Author : Lucinda Hathaway
Publisher : Down the Shore Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780945582526
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Float Plan written by Lucinda Hathaway and published by Down the Shore Pub. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activities include: - learning to tie knots- singing sea shanties- making "hardtack"- using Morse code and signal flags- solving crossword, word search and tangram puzzles- making a mobile- learning about wildlife