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Samurai Awakening

Author : Ben Martin
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462910343
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Samurai Awakening written by Ben Martin and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the 2013 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award** David Matthews is having a rough time. Being a teenager is bad enough, but when he picks up and moves to Japan for a year, with barely any knowledge of the language or social behaviors of Japanese teenagers, things go from bad to worse. Until one day, David attends a temple ceremony and finds himself possessed by a Japanese god. Suddenly, he can understand and speak Japanese. He has unbelievable new powers, including the ability to shift into a tiger, and a powerful sword he can materialize at will from its sheath—his body. But nothing comes for free, and these changes bring David face-to-face with the most terrifying creatures of Japanese legend—vengeful okami, demonic oni and terrifying ghostly yurei. Trained by his host family, famous sword-makers and the keepers of an ancient secret entrusted to their family by the first Emperor of Japan, David must fight desperately to save his host sister from a hoard of Japanese monsters. Evil has returned to Japan, and David must overcome his own insecurities if he is to save her and become a True Samurai—the protector of Japan.

Revenge of the Akuma Clan

Author : Benjamin Martin
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462913504
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Revenge of the Akuma Clan written by Benjamin Martin and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time for Revenge. Benjamin Martin, author of the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award semi-finalist Samurai Awakening, returns with another masterpiece of young adult fiction and the next installment in his riveting shapeshifter saga. American teenager David Matthews has more to deal with than the average exchange student living in Japan—a lot more. In Samurai Awakening, David woke one morning to discover that he'd been empowered and possessed by the tiger god Kou. Now a Jitsugen Samurai in Revenge of the Akuma Clan and able to take on Kou's form, David must use his new abilities to protect Japan from the terrifying evil creeping across the land—and waiting for him to fail. As his relationships, especially with Rie his host sister, grow uncertain, he must forge deeper connections with Kou, the tiger god that resides with him, and form new alliances if he hopes to hold back the return of Japan's ancient enemies. It is up to David to stop the powerful and vengeful Akuma Clan—and time is running out.

Samurai Awakening

Author : Ben Martin
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9784805312285
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture

Author : Elisabetta Porcu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047443055
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture written by Elisabetta Porcu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on one of the most influential religious traditions in Japan, Pure Land Buddhism, this book offers a survey of its impact on mainstream forms of art in modern and contemporary Japan

Christianity the Japanese Way

Author : Caldarola
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004670246
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Christianity the Japanese Way written by Caldarola and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hakuin on Kensho

Author : Albert Low
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590303776
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Hakuin on Kensho written by Albert Low and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kensho is the Zen experience of waking up to one’s own true nature—of understanding oneself to be not different from the Buddha-nature that pervades all existence. The Japanese Zen Master Hakuin (1689–1769) considered the experience to be essential. In his autobiography he says: “Anyone who would call himself a member of the Zen family must first achieve kensho-realization of the Buddha’s way. If a person who has not achieved kensho says he is a follower of Zen, he is an outrageous fraud. A swindler pure and simple.” Hakuin’s short text on kensho, “Four Ways of Knowing of an Awakened Person,” is a little-known Zen classic. The “four ways” he describes include the way of knowing of the Great Perfect Mirror, the way of knowing equality, the way of knowing by differentiation, and the way of the perfection of action. Rather than simply being methods for “checking” for enlightenment in oneself, these ways ultimately exemplify Zen practice. Albert Low has provided careful, line-by-line commentary for the text that illuminates its profound wisdom and makes it an inspiration for deeper spiritual practice.

Essays on the Modern Japanese Church

Author : Aizan Yamaji
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901915
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Modern Japanese Church written by Aizan Yamaji and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the Modern Japanese Church (Gendai Nihon kyokai shiron), published in 1906, was the first Japanese-language history of Christianity in Meiji Japan. Yamaji Aizan’s firsthand account describes the reintroduction of Christianity to Japan—its development, rapid expansion, and decline—and its place in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Meiji period. Yamaji’s overall argument is that Christianity played a crucial role in shaping the growth and development of modern Japan. Yamaji was a strong opponent of the government-sponsored “emperor-system ideology,” and through his historical writing he tried to show how Japan had a tradition of tolerance and openness at a time when government-sponsored intellectuals were arguing for greater conformity and submissiveness to the state on the basis of Japanese “national character.” Essays is important not only in terms of religious history but also because it highlights broad trends in the history of Meiji Japan. Introductory chapters explore the significance of the work in terms of the life and thought of its author and its influence on subsequent interpretations of Meiji Christianity.

The Samurai

Author : Stephen R. Turnbull
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781873410387
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Samurai written by Stephen R. Turnbull and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated history of Japanese Samurai warfare.

Roots and Wings

Author : Dan Mager, MSW
Publisher : Central Recovery Press
ISBN 13 : 194209468X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Roots and Wings written by Dan Mager, MSW and published by Central Recovery Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality parenting doesn’t happen by accident or coincidence—it necessitates conscious awareness and intentional effort. Designed to guide parents in recovery so they can nurture healthy family dynamics through mindfulness, Roots and Wings will help people develop awareness and skills to become the parents they want to be and the parents their children need.

Curators of the Buddha

Author : Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226493091
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Curators of the Buddha written by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-08-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical history of the study of Buddhism in the West, incorporating insights of colonial and post-colonial cultural studies. Social, political and cultural conditions that have shaped the course of Buddhist studies are discussed.

A Brief History of the Samurai

Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472107721
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the Samurai written by Jonathan Clements and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Clements has a knack for writing suspenseful sure-footed conflict scenes: His recounting of the Korean invasion led by samurai and daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi reads like a thriller. If you're looking for a samurai primer, Clements' guide will keep you on the hook' Japan Times, reviewed as part of an Essential Reading for Japanophiles series From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerged as a warrior caste in Medieval Japan and would have a powerful influence on the history and culture of the country from the next 500 years. Clements also looks at the Samurai wars that tore Japan apart in the 17th and 18th centuries and how the caste was finally demolished in the advent of the mechanized world.

Pain

Author : Jean Brihaye
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3709169755
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pain written by Jean Brihaye and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Convention of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica was devoted to one of the main problems not only of medicine in general and especially of neurosurgery but also of theology and anthropology. Many of these aspects have been discussed. Experts in the fields of biological and neurosciences, representatives of different religions and philosophers have contributed to a better un derstanding of the somatic aspects of pain and its medical treatment and of its religious, cultural, and philosophical interpretations and interactions. It really was a unique event to bring together scientists and physicians, priests, theologians and philosophers, make them give reviews of their fields and have them discussing the many facets of pain and suffering. To achieve such a difficult goal was mainly the achievement of the late Hans Werner Pia, the first President of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica and organizer of this Convention. Because the Convention is inseparably related to the Inauguration of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica the speeches and lectures given on this occasion and dealing with the aim of the Academia, the founding of Academies in history and with the anthropological challenge of pain are also published in this Supplement Volume of Acta Neurochirurgica. The Convention and the Inauguration of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica are a fitting memorial to the personality of Hans Werner Pia. Its proceedings are dedicated to him.

Sources of Japanese Tradition

Author : Wm. Theodore de Bary
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023112984X
Total Pages : 1449 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Sources of Japanese Tradition written by Wm. Theodore de Bary and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-19 with total page 1449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy crisis, caused in part by U.S. dependence on Arab oil, characterized an increasingly bleak economic situation. As Edward D. Berkowitz demonstrates, the end of the postwar economic boom, Watergate, and defeat in Vietnam led to an unraveling of the national consensus. During the decade, ideas about the United States, how it should be governed, and how its economy should be managed changed dramatically. Berkowitz argues that the postwar faith in sweeping social programs and a global U.S. mission was replaced by a more skeptical attitude about government's ability to positively affect society. From Woody Allen to Watergate, from the decline of the steel industry to the rise of Bill Gates, and from Saturday Night Fever to the Sunday morning fervor of evangelical preachers, Berkowitz captures the history, tone, and spirit of the seventies. He explores the decade's major political events and movements, including the rise and fall of détente, congressional reform, changes in healthcare policies, and the hostage crisis in Iran. The seventies also gave birth to several social movements and the "rights revolution," in which women, gays and lesbians, and people with disabilities all successfully fought for greater legal and social recognition. At the same time, reaction to these social movements as well as the issue of abortion introduced a new facet into American political life-the rise of powerful, politically conservative religious organizations and activists. Berkowitz also considers important shifts in American popular culture, recounting the creative renaissance in American film as well as the birth of the Hollywood blockbuster. He discusses how television programs such as All in the Family and Charlie's Angels offered Americans both a reflection of and an escape from the problems gripping the country.

Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road

Author : Lucian Swift Kirtland
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road written by Lucian Swift Kirtland and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road" by Lucian Swift Kirtland is a captivating exploration of Japan's ancient high roads and the adventures they hold. Kirtland's narrative skillfully immerses readers in the rich culture and history of Japan as he embarks on a journey of discovery. Through vivid descriptions and insightful observations, this book not only provides a travelogue but also offers a deeper understanding of Japan's landscapes, traditions, and the spirit of the samurai. It's a must-read for those who seek to wander the high roads of Japan from the comfort of their armchair.

Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism

Author : Curtis Anderson Gayle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134431589
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism written by Curtis Anderson Gayle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the historical writings of postwar Japanese Marxists - who were, and who continue to be, surprisingly numerous in the Japanese academic world. It shows how they developed in their historical writing ideas of 'radical nationalism', which accepted presupposed ideas of Japan's 'ethnic homogeneity', but which they saw as a 'revolutionary subject', creating a sphere of radical political action against the state, the American Occupation and global capital. It compares this approach in both prewar and postwar Marxist historiography, showing that in the postwar period ideas were more elaborate, and put much more emphasis on national education and social mobilization. It also shows how these early postwar discourses have made their way into contemporary ethnic nationalism and revisionism in Japan today. The book's rich and interesting analysis will appeal not just to historians of Japan, but also to those interested in nationalism and Marxism more generally.

Samurai Elf

Author : Miguel Guerra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977845408
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Samurai Elf written by Miguel Guerra and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planet Tyr is recovering from the last in a series of global wars. Its fragile peace is threatened by the emergence of a new and mysterious shadow army known only as the Horde. The focus of their hunt is a young elf named Ardan, who lives tucked away in the secluded forest of Naasbeth.

The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance

Author : David Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317918568
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance written by David Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transcripts of the three Kyoto School roundtable discussions of the theme of ‘the standpoint of world history and Japan’ may now be judged to form the key source text of responsible Pacific War revisionism. Published in the pages of Chuo Koron, the influential magazine of enlightened elite Japanese opinion during the twelve months after Pearl Harbor, these subversive discussions involved four of the finest minds of the second generation of the Kyoto School of philosophy. Tainted by controversy and shrouded in conspiratorial mystery, these transcripts were never republished in Japan after the war, and they have never been translated into English except in selective and often highly biased form. David Williams has now produced the first objective, balanced and close interpretative reading of these three discussions in their entirety since 1943. This version of the wartime Kyoto School transcripts is neither a translation nor a paraphrase but a fuller rendering in reader-friendly English that is convincingly faithful to the spirit of the original texts. The result is a masterpiece of interpretation and inter-cultural understanding between the Confucian East and the liberal West. Seventy years after Tojo came to power, these documents of the Japanese resistance to his wartime government and policies exercise a unique claim on students of Japanese history and thought today because of their unrivalled revelatory potential within the vast literature on the Pacific War. The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance may therefore stand as the most trenchant analysis of the political, philosophic and legal foundations of the place of the Pacific War in modern Japanese history yet to appear in any language.