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Book Synopsis A Letter from Japan by : Carolyn Peter
Download or read book A Letter from Japan written by Carolyn Peter and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the first American photographers to set foot on Japanese soil at the end of World War II, even before Japan had officially surrendered, John Swope experienced and recorded a critical, peculiar, and fragile moment in the history of Japan and a war-torn world. His powerful photographic essay is complemented by a 144-page letter that he wrote to his wife, the actress Dorothy McGuire, which describes, in detail, his experiences and emotional reactions to all that he saw and photographed. Swope went to Japan as part of the elite team of Edward Steichen Naval photographers to document the release of Allied prisoners of war, but he went far beyond his official duties. During a three-and-a-half week period he took photographs that vividly convey the impact of World War II on the local population and the land, as well as the Allied prisoners. Having visited Japan fifteen years before as a young man, Swope struggled in 1945 with the numerous contradictions he observed and felt. His photographs, together with his words, convey a poignant, highly personal view of this world in limbo expressing a great sense of humanity and sensitivity for people on both sides of the conflict. The book honors Swope's original intention of bringing together his photographs with the letter he wrote to his wife; individual images are juxtaposed with short excerpts. The book presents 114 color plates and gives insight into Swope's larger pursuit of capturing the universal human experience by also including highlights from his work as a Hollywood photographer, from his Life magazine career, and from his international travels from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Download or read book Dearest Lenny written by Mari Yoshihara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about Leonard Bernstein, a musician of extraordinary talent who was legendary for his passionate love of life and many relationships. In this work, Mari Yoshihara reveals the deeply emotional connections Bernstein formed with two little-known Japanese individuals, which she narrates through their personal letters that have never been seen before. Dearest Lenny interweaves an intimate story of love and art with a history of Bernstein's transformation from an American icon to a world maestro during the second half of the twentieth century. The articulate, moving letters of Kazuko Amano--a woman who began writing fan letters to Bernstein in 1947 and became a close family friend--and Kunihiko Hashimoto--a young man who fell in love with the maestro in 1979 and later became his business representative--convey the meaning Bernstein and his music had at various stages of their lives. The letters also shed light on how Bernstein's compositions, recordings, and performances touched his audiences around the world. The book further traces the making of a global Bernstein amidst the shifting landscape of classical music that made this American celebrity turn increasingly to Europe and Japan. The dramatic change in Japan's place in the world and its relationship to the United States during the postwar decades shaped Bernstein's connection to the country. Ultimately, Dearest Lenny is a story of relationships--between the two individuals and Bernstein, the United States and the world, art and commerce, artists and the state, private and public, conventions and transgressions, dreams and realities--that were at the core of Bernstein's greatest achievements and challenges and that made him truly a maestro of the world. Dearest Lenny paints a poignant portrait of individuals connected across cultures, languages, age, and status through correspondence and music--and the world that shaped their relationships.
Book Synopsis A Letter from Japan by : Lafcadio Hearn
Download or read book A Letter from Japan written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Budget of Letters from Japan by : Arthur Collins Maclay
Download or read book A Budget of Letters from Japan written by Arthur Collins Maclay and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Grandmamma's Letters from Japan by : Mary Pruyn
Download or read book Grandmamma's Letters from Japan written by Mary Pruyn and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters written by Mary Pruyn, a missionary to Japan with the Woman's Union Missionary Society in the mid-1800s, to her grandchildren in New York state.
Book Synopsis Letters from Japan 1950 by : Jeffries Wyman
Download or read book Letters from Japan 1950 written by Jeffries Wyman and published by Protean Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was once said of the scientist and diplomat Jeffries Wyman that he tried to raise his children, after their mother's death, by writing them letters. In 1950, Wyman spent six months in Japan--giving scientific lectures, meeting notables, searching out traditional villages, and writing intense, keenly observant letters to his then-college-age children. Published for the first time, these letters offer a candid and startling depiction of Wyman's experience in postwar Japan. His letters to his daughter Anne offer an unusual perspective on Japan at a time when most Americans there got a far less intimate view of Japanese life. Wyman embraced the culture of a country that welcomed him, from the lowliest peasants to the Emperor--a country where his epiphany in a tea garden would later define the future of allosteric biochemistry.
Book Synopsis Last Letters from Attu by : Mary Breu
Download or read book Last Letters from Attu written by Mary Breu and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island and Etta became a prisoner of war. Etta and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this 40 something year old nurse from back east met Foster Jones and fell in love. They married and for nearly twenty years they lived, worked and taught in remote Athabascan, Alutiiq, Yup’ik and Aleut villages where they were the only outsiders. Their last assignment was Attu. After the invasion, Etta became a prisoner of war and spent 39 months in Japanese POW sites located in Yokohama and Totsuka. She was the first female Caucasian taken prisoner by a foreign enemy on the North American Continent since the War of 1812, and she was the first American female released by the Japanese at the end of World War II. Using descriptive letters that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for the first time in this book.
Book Synopsis Education in Japan by : Arinori Mori (ju-goi)
Download or read book Education in Japan written by Arinori Mori (ju-goi) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Grandmamma's Letters from Japan by : Mary Pruyn
Download or read book Grandmamma's Letters from Japan written by Mary Pruyn and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Download or read book Dear Miye written by Mary Kimoto Tomita and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These letters tell the story of a young American woman of Japanese descent who was stranded in Japan during World War II. They chronicle her turbulent life from her arrival in Japan through her experiences as a civilian employee of U.S. forces in the first years of the American occupation.
Book Synopsis Letters from the End of the World by : Toyofumi Ogura
Download or read book Letters from the End of the World written by Toyofumi Ogura and published by Kodansha International. This book was released on 2001 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of letters that document the catastrophe visited uponne family during the destruction of Hiroshima. The author - a youngrofessor of history at Hiroshima University - spent several days after theropping of the atomic bomb searching for his wife and son. His joy on beinge-united with them was short-lived as radiation sickness took his wife tenays later. The author spent the following year writing a series of letterso his wife, outlining the things he saw and experienced over the two weeksefore the bombing and her death.;The book also contains family documents,etters from the children to their parents and a diary in which the eldestaughter described the events of the 18th-19th August 1945, when she returnedo Hiroshima on the final day of her mother's life.
Book Synopsis Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by : Morgan Pitelka
Download or read book Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries written by Morgan Pitelka and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book collects twenty-three original, handwritten Japanese letters from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and provides transcriptions, translations, and essay commentaries for each. In addition, introductory essays contextualize such letter writing in the politics of the period, the cultural trends of the day, the value of calligraphy, and the history of writing in Japan"--
Book Synopsis Banana Fish, Vol. 3 by : Akimi Yoshida
Download or read book Banana Fish, Vol. 3 written by Akimi Yoshida and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that Ash Lynx would be more controllable in jail has worked out for nobody, because in between gang rape and random assaults, Ash has not only managed to get Eiji to carry out info to his allies in Chinatown, but he's met cellmate Max Lobo, another survivor of his brother's unit in Vietnam. That means as soon as Ash makes bail, he's only headed for bigger trouble. But what's more dangerous for him, confronting Papa Dino or his real father...? -- VIZ Media
Book Synopsis AN ARTIST'S LETTERS FROM JAPAN. by : John La Farge
Download or read book AN ARTIST'S LETTERS FROM JAPAN. written by John La Farge and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dear Ken-chan written by Kazuko Winter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This candid memoir is a gripping personal tale of cultural schizophrenia. Kazuko Winter was the daughter of a high-ranking Japanese diplomat, raised and educated outside her native Japan in India, South Africa, Australia, and Oxford, England, in the 1950s and 1960s. She also spent time with her parents in Nigeria and Paraguay. Never fully at home anywhere, she suffered from an increasing sense of isolation that once led her to the brink of suicide, and at another stage to seriously consider entering a Catholic order of nuns. Written in the form of a letter to an old Japanese friend, the book relates the author’s turbulent love affair with a young Japanese diplomat, her turbulent decision to break off the affair because she did not believe she belonged within Japanese society, and her subsequent happy marriage to a German scholar. At once disturbing and uplifting, this is an intensely felt story of the path to healing and her gradual reacceptance of herself, her mother and her Japanese heritage.
Book Synopsis Letters Written by the English Residents in Japan, 1611-1623 by : Naojirō Murakami
Download or read book Letters Written by the English Residents in Japan, 1611-1623 written by Naojirō Murakami and published by Martino Fine Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier by : Henry James Coleridge
Download or read book The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier written by Henry James Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
