The Curious Case Of The Camel In Modern Japan

Author : Ayelet Zohar
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004518347
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan written by Ayelet Zohar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan, Ayelet Zohar addresses issues of Orientalism, colonialism, and exoticism in modern Japan, through images of camels – the epitome of Otherness, and a metonymy for Asia in the Japanese imagination.

Author : Ayelet Zohar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000477479
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan written by Ayelet Zohar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the visual culture of Japan’s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century. Through this important moment in Japanese history, contributors reflect on Japan’s transcultural artistic imagination vis-a-vis the discernment, negotiation, assimilation, and assemblage of diverse aesthetic concepts and visual pursuits. The collected chapters show how new cultural notions were partially modified and integrated to become the artistic methods of modern Japan, based on the hybridization of major ideologies, visualities, technologies, productions, formulations, and modes of representation. The book presents case studies of creative transformation demonstrating how new concepts and methods were perceived and altered to match views and theories prevalent in Meiji Japan, and by what means different practitioners negotiated between their existing skills and the knowledge generated from incoming ideas to create innovative modes of practice and representation that reflected the specificity of modern Japanese artistic circumstances. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Japanese studies, Asian studies, and Japanese history, as well as those who use approaches and methods related to globalization, cross-cultural studies, transcultural exchange, and interdisciplinary studies.

Author : Yanagawa Seigan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231559984
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Same Moon Shines on All written by Yanagawa Seigan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditional Sinitic poetry—works written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importance far beyond China’s borders. Together, they led itinerant lives, traveling around Japan teaching poetry and selling calligraphy. Seigan established Edo-period Japan’s largest poetry society and attained nationwide renown as a literary figure, as well as taking part in stealthy political activities in the years before the Meiji Restoration. Kōran was one of the most accomplished female composers of Sinitic poetry in Japanese history. After her husband’s death, she was arrested and imprisoned for six months as part of a crackdown on political reform. Seigan and Kōran’s works at once display mastery of a poetic tradition and depict Japan on the brink of monumental change. The Same Moon Shines on All explores the world of Seigan and Kōran, pairing an in-depth account of their lives and times with an inviting selection of their poetry. The book features eminent Sinologist Jonathan Chaves’s translations of more than 130 poems by Seigan and more than 50 by Kōran, each annotated and followed by the original Chinese text. An introduction by Matthew Fraleigh, a specialist in Japan’s Sinitic literature, offers insight into the historical and literary context as well as the poems themselves. Approachable and delightful, this book makes the riches of Japanese Sinitic poetry available to a range of readers.

Author : Alex Kerr
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 9780809039432
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dogs and Demons written by Alex Kerr and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2002-02-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan's recent, and chronic, crises -- from the failure of its banks and pension funds to the decline of its once magnificent modern cinema. He is the first to give a full report on the nation's endangered environment -- its seashores lined with concrete, its roads leading to nowhere in the mountains -- as well as its "monument frenzy," the destruction of old cities such as Kyoto and construction of drab new ones, and the attendant collapse of its tourist industry. Kerr writes with humor and passion, for "passion," he says, "is part of the story. Millions of Japanese feel as heartbroken at what is going on as I do. My Japanese friends tell me, 'Please write this -- for us.'"

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demorests' Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : sawyer publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780979441820
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Camel Project written by and published by sawyer publishing. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Giles Murray
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1568365896
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking into Japanese Literature written by Giles Murray and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seven great works of Japanese literature in the original language, along with the English translation and a newly-revised custom dictionary - plus downloadable audio. Breaking into Japanese Literature lets readers enjoy seven classic stories in the original Japanese. thanks to a unique 2-page layout featuring the Japanese text in large type, an easy-to-follow English translation, and a custom dictionary, newly revised for this edition. Also includes downloadable audio, notes about the stories and authors, and original illustrations.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400078369
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wrong About Japan written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Peter Carey offered to take his son to Japan, 12-year-old Charley stipulated no temples or museums. He wanted to see manga, anime, and cool, weird stuff. His father said yes. Out of that bargain comes this enchanting tour of the mansion of Japanese culture, as entered through its garish, brightly lit back door. Guided–and at times judged–by an ineffably strange boy named Takashi, the Careys meet manga artists and anime directors, the meticulous impersonators called “visualists,” and solitary, nerdish otaku. Throughout, the Booker Prize-winning novelist makes observations that are intriguing even when–as his hosts keep politely reminding him–they turn out to be wrong. Funny, surprising, distinguished by its wonderfully nuanced portrait of a father and son thousands of miles from home, Wrong About Japan is a delight.

Author : Laura Moretti (Lecturer in Pre-modern Japanese Studies)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004337138
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recasting the Past written by Laura Moretti (Lecturer in Pre-modern Japanese Studies) and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Recasting the Past: An Early Modern Tales of Ise for Children Laura Moretti offers a critical edition, translation and study of a 1766 Japanese picture-book. The introduction includes an in-depth examination of chapbooks, kusazōshi, The Tales of Ise and children's literature.