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Katsuno's Revenge and Other Tales of the Samurai

Author : Asataro Miyamori
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486149900
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Katsuno's Revenge and Other Tales of the Samurai written by Asataro Miyamori and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eight compelling stories offer valuable insights into Japanese culture. Recounted by a distinguished scholar, they feature scenes from samurai life that embody the concept of Bushido, the "way of the warrior." Their portrayals of loyalty, romance, passion, and heroism offer a true reflection of the values of the Japanese knighthood. Largely fact-based, these fables originated among the traditional storytellers of Japan and were later adapted into romances and historical dramas. Asataro Miyamori, a professor of English at the Oriental University in Tokyo, drew upon authentic sources in compiling this volume, which first appeared in 1920. In the preface, Miyamori observed, "It is true the samurai class has gone forever along with feudalism; but fortunately or unfortunately the Japanese at large are samurai in a sense. . . . European civilization has revolutionized Japanese society, both for better and for worse. . . . yet it may safely be said that the sentiments, motives and moral principles of the samurai in some measure remain in the bedrock of their character, in their subconsciousness, so to speak. The Japanese of today are intellectually cosmopolitan, but emotionally they are still samurai to no small degree."

Tales of the Samurai and "Lady Hosokawa", a Historical Drama

Author : Asatarō Miyamori
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Samurai and "Lady Hosokawa", a Historical Drama written by Asatarō Miyamori and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of the Samurai

Author : 宮森麻太郎
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Samurai written by 宮森麻太郎 and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Samurai Tales

Author : Romulus Hillsborough
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9784805313534
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Samurai Tales written by Romulus Hillsborough and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samurai Tales is about the legendary men from the samurai class who fought for the helm of power in 19th century Japan. These are stories of courage, honor, fidelity, disgrace, fate, and destiny set in the bloody time of political change and social upheaval in the final years of the Shogun. The final years of the samurai were an age of unprecedented turmoil and bloodletting in Japan. They heralded the end of nearly three centuries of rule under the Tokugawa Shogun. The rule of law was deteriorating, assassination and murder were rampant, and inner-fighting among the warrior class embroiled the nation. After the United States forced an end of over two hundred years of Japanese isolation, two contrasting philosophies were embraced by the samurai. On one side were those who would overthrow the shogun and restore the Emperor to power. Opposing the revolutionaries were the allies of the Tokugawa Bakufu, headed by the shogun. While the shogun's men clashed violently with the revolutionaries, as samurai they shared with each other an allegiance to an unwritten code of honor which governed the ways they lived and died. Theirs was a stoic system of morals which condoned suicide, vengeance and, in some cases, cold-blooded murder. Samurai Tales is, to quote author Romulus Hillsborough, "accurate portrayals of the heart and soul of the samurai, the social and political systems of whom have, like the Japanese sword, become relics of a distant age, but the likes of whose nobility shall never again be seen in this world." In recounting what he terms "the great epic which was the dawn of modern Japan," Hillsborough delves deeply into the psyche of the men of the samurai class. This book would serve well on the bookshelves of martial artists, those interested in samurai culture, or those interested in Japanese history.

Tales of the Samurai

Author : A. B. Mitford
Publisher : Fall River
ISBN 13 : 9781435166783
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Samurai written by A. B. Mitford and published by Fall River. This book was released on 2018-09-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Old Japan

Author : Baron Algernon Bertram Freema Redesdale
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781798294307
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Old Japan written by Baron Algernon Bertram Freema Redesdale and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-03 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Old Japan is an anthology of short stories. These stories focus on the varying aspects of Japanese life in centuries past. The book is regarded as an excellent introduction to Japanese literature and culture, by virtue of its ease of access and supplemental notes by the writer. Also included are the author's eyewitness accounts of a selection of Japanese rituals, ranging from the harakiri and marriage to a selection of sermons. This book had a lasting influence on the Western perception of Japanese history, culture and society, particularly because of just one widely known tale about samurai revenge.

Tales of Old Japan

Author : Lord Redesdale
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781650482736
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Old Japan written by Lord Redesdale and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Old Japan is an anthology of short stories, compiled by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, writing under the better known name of A.B. Mitford. These stories focus on the varying aspects of Japanese life in centuries past. The book, which was written in 1871, is still regarded as an excellent introduction to Japanese literature and culture, by virtue of its ease of access and supplemental notes by the writer. Also included are the author's eyewitness accounts of a selection of Japanese rituals, ranging from the harakiri and marriage to a selection of sermons. This book had a lasting influence on the Western perception of Japanese history, culture and society, particularly because of just one widely known tale about samurai revenge.

Horses in Japan

Author : Vivienne Kenrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Horses in Japan written by Vivienne Kenrick and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971

Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Old Japan

Author : Lord Redesdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781540853004
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Old Japan written by Lord Redesdale and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Old Japan is an anthology of short stories, compiled by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, writing under the better known name of A.B. Mitford. These stories focus on the varying aspects of Japanese life in centuries past. The book, which was written in 1871, is still regarded as an excellent introduction to Japanese literature and culture, by virtue of its ease of access and supplemental notes by the writer. Also included are the author's eyewitness accounts of a selection of Japanese rituals, ranging from the harakiri and marriage to a selection of sermons. This book had a lasting influence on the Western perception of Japanese history, culture and society, particularly because of just one widely known tale about samurai revenge.

The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha

Author : Mikael S. Adolphson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824831233
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha written by Mikael S. Adolphson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan’s monastic warriors have fared poorly in comparison to the samurai, both in terms of historical reputation and representations in popular culture. Often maligned and criticized for their involvement in politics and other secular matters, they have been seen as figures separate from the larger military class. However, as Mikael Adolphson reveals in his comprehensive and authoritative examination of the social origins of the monastic forces, political conditions, and warfare practices of the Heian (794–1185) and Kamakura (1185–1333) eras, these "monk-warriors"(sôhei) were in reality inseparable from the warrior class. Their negative image, Adolphson argues, is a construct that grew out of artistic sources critical of the established temples from the fourteenth century on. In deconstructing the sôhei image and looking for clues as to the characteristics, role, and meaning of the monastic forces, The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha highlights the importance of historical circumstances; it also points to the fallacies of allowing later, especially modern, notions of religion to exert undue influence on interpretations of the past. It further suggests that, rather than constituting a separate category of violence, religious violence needs to be understood in its political, social, military, and ideological contexts.

The Dragon and the Dazzle

Author : Marco Pellitteri
Publisher : Tunué
ISBN 13 : 8889613890
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon and the Dazzle written by Marco Pellitteri and published by Tunué. This book was released on 2010 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the worldwide circulation of the products of cultural industries, an important role is played by Japanese popular culture in European contexts. Marco Pellitteri shows that the contact between Japanese pop culture and European youth publics occurred during two phases. By use of metaphor, the author calls them the Dragon and the Dazzle. The first took place between 1975 and 1995, the second from 1996 to today. They can be distinguished by the modalities of circulation and consumption/re-elaboration of Japanese themes and products in the most receptive countries: Italy, France, Spain, Germany and, across the ocean, the United States. During these two phases, several themes have been perceived, in Europe, as rising from Japan's social and mediatic systems. Among them, this book examines the most apparent from a European point of view: the author names them machine, infant, and mutation, visible mostly through manga, anime, videogames, and toys. Together with France, Italy is the European country that in this respect has had the most central role. There, Japanese imagination has been acknowledged not only by young people, but also by politicians, television programmers, the general public, educators, comics and cartoons authors. The growing influence of Japanese pop culture, connected to the appreciation of its manga, anime, toys, and videogames, also urges political and mediologic questions linked to the identity/ies of Japan as they are understood--wrongly or rightly--in Europe and the West, and to the increasingly important role of Japan in international relations."--Back cover

Crowning the Nice Girl

Author : Christine R. Yano
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824862066
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Crowning the Nice Girl written by Christine R. Yano and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i sought to carve a positive niche of public citizenship in the community. In 1953 members of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce and their wives created a beauty contest, the Cherry Blossom Festival (CBF) Queen Pageant, which quickly became an annual spectacle for the growing urban population of Honolulu. Crowning the Nice Girl analyzes the pageant through its decades of development to the present within multiple frameworks of gender, class, and race/ethnicity. Drawing on extensive archival research; interviews with CBF queens, contestants, and organizers; and participant observation in the Fiftieth Annual Festival as a volunteer, Christine Yano paints a complex portrait of not only a beauty pageant, but also a community. The study begins with the subject of beauty pageants in general and Asian American beauty pageants in particular, interrogating the issues they raise, embedding them within their histories, and examining them as part of a global culture that has taken its model from the Miss America contest.Yano follows the pageant throughout the decades into the 1990s, adding corresponding "herstories"—extensive narratives drawn from interviews with CBF queens. She concludes by framing issues of race, ethnicity, spectacle, and community within the intertwined themes of niceness and banality.

Ninja

Author : Kacem Zoughari, Ph.D.
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462902871
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Ninja written by Kacem Zoughari, Ph.D. and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninjutsu is the most renowned and misunderstood of all martial arts. The long history of ninjutstu is often murky; surrounded by mystery and legend. Here, for the first time, is an in-depth, factual look at the entire art of ninjutsu, including emergence of the ninja warriors and philosophy in feudal Japan; detailed historical events; its context in the development of other schools of martial arts; and the philosophies and exercises of the school today. Based on more than ten years of study and translation of authentic Japanese texts, including many that have never before been translated, this is the most comprehensive and accurate study on the art of ninjutsu ever written outside of Japan. This ninja book includes studies of ninjutsu history, philosophy, wisdom, and presents a wide range of information from authors, historians, chronicles and scrolls in order to foster a deep understanding of this "shadowy" art. For those who train in ninjutsu, for other martial art practitioners, for historians, and for anyone with an interest in Japanese feudal history or Japanese martial arts, The Ninja: Ancient Shadow Warriors of Japan shines a light on this enigmatic subject.

Dalit Literature

Author : Amar Nath Prasad
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176258173
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Dalit Literature written by Amar Nath Prasad and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales

Author : Paul Varley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824816018
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales written by Paul Varley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading cultural historian of premodern Japan draws a rich portrait of the emerging samurai culture as it is portrayed in gunki-mono, or war tales, examining eight major works spanning the mid-tenth to late fourteenth centuries. Although many of the major war tales have been translated into English, Warriors of Japan is the first book-length study of the tales and their place in Japanese history. The war tales are one of the most important sources of knowledge about Japan's premodern warriors, revealing much about the medieval psyche and the evolving perceptions of warriors, warfare, and warrior customs.

The Book of Five Rings

Author : Miyamoto Musashi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Five Rings written by Miyamoto Musashi and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limited Time Promotional Offer The Book of Five Rings In "The Book of Five Rings," Miyamoto Musashi takes the reader into a world filled to the brim with devotion, self-respect, discipline, honesty and purity of thought. Written originally for warriors and samurai in a completely different time and culture, Musashi's book provides a remarkable source of inspiration for self-development today. His teachings are concise and to the point. He uses phrases like "you must understand this" and "you must practice diligently" and explains only general, but unquestionable and fundamental, concepts of the Way of the Warrior. While some of his guidelines are are not directly applicable in our time and age, those about striving to achieve improvement on the inside as well as the outside couldn't be more on target. Taken literally this book is about how to become an efficient, albeit enlightened, killer. It's value comes from reading between the lines... lines which speak volumes. About Miyamoto Musashi: Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645), was a Japanese swordsman and ronin. Musashi, as he was often simply known, became renowned through stories of his excellent swordsmanship in numerous duels, even from a very young age. The founder of a style of swordsmanship, he also wrote The Book of Five Rings, a book on strategy, tactics, and philosophy that is still studied today. Miyamoto Musashi is widely considered a Kensei and one of the greatest warriors of all time.