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Japan Its History and Culture

Author: W. Scott Morton
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Publisher: David and Charles
Release: Feb 1973
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ISBN: B000HM7B9Y
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Japan Style Sheet: The SWET Guide for Writers, Editors, and Translators

Author: Editors, And Translators (Japan) Society Of Writers
Series:
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Release: Jun 1998
Genre: Reference
Reader Rating: 4.0 (1 votes)
ISBN: 1880656302
Summary: The Japan Style Sheet is an authoritative guide that will assist anyone working on English-language publications about Japan or containing references to Japanese culture, art, business, history, and politics. Aimed primarily at the needs of editors and writers without specialized knowledge, it contains clear advice and information, as well as several appendices that will be useful to translators and researchers in Japanese studies. Problem areas discussed include methods of romanizing Japanese; word formation; "spelling" Japanese words; methods of indicating long vowels, apostrophes, and other aids to a proper reading of romanized Japanese; capitalization; plurals; and bibliographic style. Reasons and alternatives are given throughout to enable writers and editors to make stylistic decisions based on their intended audiences.


 

Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830

Author: Donald Keene
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release: Feb 1969
Genre: History
Reader Rating: 4.5 (2 votes)
ISBN: 0804706697
Summary: This is an expansion and revision of a book from early (1954) in the career of the great Columbia Japanologist Donald Keene. It surveys "the growth and uses of Western learning: in late-18th and early 19th-century Japan. The primary figure Keene writes about is Honda Toshiaki (1744-1821). 74 of the books 246 pages are a translation of parts of Honda's "Secret Plan for Managing the Country" and "Tales of the West."
Keene provides a fascinating account of Japanese views of what Europe might be like based on emerging understanding of European knowledge and technology. Before American gunships forced Japan open and the Meiji "restoration" embarked on a program of rapid industrialization (and militarization), there was a base of thought on trying to adapt what seemed useful from the west in ways compatible with Japanese conceptions of the essence of Japaneseness. Keene's classic book provides valuable background to understanding the rapid "modernization" and militarism of the late-19th-century (with successful wars with first China, then with Russia just before and just after the turn of the 20th century).


 

Japanese History and Culture from Ancient to Modern Times: Seven Basic Bibliographies

Author: John W. Dower, Timothy S. George
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Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Release: Feb 1997
Genre: History
Reader Rating: 5.0 (1 votes)
ISBN: 1558760989
Summary: "The selection and accuracy of the citations are excellent . . . includes many unusual, elusive, but valuable sources, and is the book's strongest feature."
-Choice

"A useful reading and research list, reasonable price."
-Reference Book Annual

"An imaginative and comprehensive guide to Japanese history and culture, as valuable to the expert as to the beginner; a bibliography that can be read as well as used, for it leaves almost nothing out."
-Carol Gluck, Columbia University


 

Japanese Music and Musical Instruments

Author: William P. Malm
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Publisher: Tuttle
Release: Feb 1959
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ISBN: B0000CKHMA
Summary: During Japan's early history, musical instruments were seen as sources of ritual power, allowing performers to call up divine forces for inspiration and aid. As Japan developed a court and then an urbanized society, instrumental performance remained at the heart of aesthetic experience,
playing diverse roles expanded to cover nearly every part of the society.

Illustrated with images drawn from picture scrolls as well as photographs of instruments as they are used in performance, Japanese Musical Instruments is a complete survey of traditional instruments. The book includes literary references to musical instruments from sources that span the tenth to the
twentieth centuries, and it describes in detail the musical instruments' dual roles as 'instruments of culture' and as devices for producing sound. Easy to use and concise, the book is a readable overview of the nation's musical heritage.


 

Japanese Proverbs and Sayings

Author: Daniel Crump Buchanan
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release: Feb 1979
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Reader Rating: 4.0 (1 votes)
ISBN: 0806110821
Summary: This book gave me an interesting overview on Japanese sayings and probverbs. Alot of these probverbs will leave you stunned. You can apply these sayings of knowledge to everyday life even today. I would love it if this book came out with a revised version soon, because alot of use comes from these sayings. I hope I will help influence you if you decide to buy this book.


 

The Japanese Theatre

Author: Benito Ortolani
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release: Feb 1995
Genre: Arts & Photography
Reader Rating: 5.0 (1 votes)
ISBN: 0691043337
Summary:
Widely recognized as the standard history of Japanese theatre for Western readers, this work by Benito Ortolani is now available for the first time in paperback. From ancient folk and ritual performances to modern dance theatre, it provides concise summaries about each major theatrical form, situating the genre in its particular social, political, and cultural contexts and integrating a vast array of detail on such topics as staging, costuming, masks and properties, repertory, acting techniques, and noteworthy actors. Complete with illustrations and an extensive bibliography, this book serves undergraduates and specialists both as a reference and as a cultural history of Japan seen from the perspective of the performing arts.


 

The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyu

Author: Sen Soshitsu, Soshitsu Sen
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Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release: Feb 1998
Genre: Cooking, Food & Wine
Reader Rating: 4.0 (1 votes)
ISBN: 082481990X
Summary: This scholarly work first examines the discovery & establishment of tea & tea culture in China, in particular the profound influence of Lu Yu in developing a Chinese tea tradition. The remainder of the book is devoted to explaining the development of the peculiarly Japanese tea culture which grew from Chinese beginnings following tea's introduction to Japan from China during the Tang Dynasty. The book is well illustrated with some superb full colour plates, and a number of black & white photographs.
The author is the fifteenth generation tea-master entrusted with preserving the history and practising the art of the Japanese tea traditions.


 

Java: The Complete Reference, J2SE 5 Edition

Author: Herbert Schildt
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Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Release: Dec 2004
Genre: Computers & Internet
Reader Rating: 4.0 (8 votes)
ISBN: 0072230738
Summary: In this completely up-to-date volume, Herb Schildt, the world's leading programming author, shows you everything you need to know to develop, compile, debug, and run Java applications and applets. You'll get complete details on the Java language, its class libraries, and its development environment along with hundreds of examples and expert techniques.


 

Kabbalah: A Love Story

Author: Lawrence Kushner
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Publisher: Morgan Road Books
Release: Oct 2006
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Reader Rating: 5.0 (15 votes)
ISBN: 0767924126
Summary:
"Sometime, somewhere, someone is searching for answers…

…in a thirteenth-century castle
…on a train to a concentration camp
…in a New York city apartment
"
Hidden within the binding of an ancient text that has been passed down through the ages lies the answer to one of the heart’s eternal questions. When the text falls into the hands of Rabbi Kalman Stern, he has no idea that his lonely life of intellectual pursuits is about to change once he opens the book. Soon afterward, he meets astronomer Isabel Benveniste, a woman of science who stirs his soul as no woman has for many years. But Kalman has much to learn before he can unlock his heart and let true love into his life. The key lies in the mysterious document he finds inside the Zohar, the master text of the Kabbalah.


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