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Book Synopsis The Magatama Doodle by : Hans Brinckmann
Download or read book The Magatama Doodle written by Hans Brinckmann and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part personal memoir, part professional flashback, part socio-cultural commentary, this title chronicles the author's experiences during his twenty-four years (1950-74) of living in Japan as a reluctant banker. It also touches on some of the significant changes that have taken place in Japanese society since the mid-Seventies.
Download or read book Volutions written by Suzanne Langford and published by Savant Books and Publications. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-six exceptional poems by fourteen outstanding poets including Noemi Villagrana Barragan, Elsha Bohnert, Hans Brinckmann, Helen R. Davis, K. Lauren de Boer, Duandino, Lonner F. Holden, Daniel S. Janik, Kaethe Kauffman, Suzanne Langford, Lucretia Leong, C. P. Little, Leilani Madison and Lady Mariposa. The fifth in the multi-award-winning annual Savant Poetry Anthology series.
Book Synopsis The Undying Day by : Hans Brinckmann
Download or read book The Undying Day written by Hans Brinckmann and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widowed water bird in an Amsterdam canal abandoned villages flitting fitfully by as he rides the Eurostar to Paris the sun, averse to setting, extending the you-filled day such are the diverse sources of inspiration for Brinckmanns poetry. Unconstrained by locale or subject matter, his lines celebrate the marvel of love and ponder lifes irretrievable losses. He is no stranger to whimsy either, nor to the search for lifes ultimate meaning. After publishing a highly-acclaimed autobiography (The Magatama Doodle, 2005); a cosmopolitan collection of stories (Noon Elusive, 2006); and a history of postwar Japan (Showa Japan, 2008), Brinckmann now offers his readers this selection of his poetry, written over the past half-century in seven countries. The book ends with the memorable Ballad of Hope Hill, set to music and performed in The Netherlands. Brinckmanns translator, Hiromi Mizoguchi, has rendered the poems into exquisite Japanese, shown side-by-side with the originals. ??????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????(2005)????????????????????????????????(2008)??????????33???????50???????????????2000?????????????????????????????????????
Download or read book Showa Japan written by Hans Brinckmann and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's momentous Showa era began in 1926, when Emperor Hirohito ascended the throne, and ended with his death in 1989. This was a tumultuous period in modern Japanese history--a time of great disaster and tremendous triumph for Japan. This book focuses on the post-war period in Japan when the nation stood at the zenith of her economic power. Today, the term Showa is shorthand for a glamorous period in which, all too briefly, Japan was the richest nation on earth and the envy of the developed world. A growing nostalgia for this period is now memorialized in Japan in a national holiday. It was an era of stratospheric growth which saw Japan's transition from an isolated, impoverished nation to a peaceful one holding an exalted position as the world's second largest economy. But what is the true meaning of the Showa era, and what is its legacy for the Japanese today? In Showa Japan, Hans Brinckmann provides a clear-eyed exploration of the Showa period as it really was--not just a time of wondrous change but of wild excesses that would eventually come crashing down with the bursting of Japan's economic bubble--exactly as occurred in the rest of the world, but almost 20 years earlier! From the heights of extravagance to the lean years that followed, Brinkmann, a long-time resident of Japan, examines the impact of the Showa era and its aftermath on every aspect of Japanese society. Featuring dozens of period photographs, interviews, and a wealth of factual information and personal reflections, this book provides an in-depth portrait of a Japan that once was--as well as a blueprint for one that might still be, if only the lessons of the past could be learned.
Book Synopsis The Tomb in the Kyoto Hills and Other Stories by : Hans Brinckmann
Download or read book The Tomb in the Kyoto Hills and Other Stories written by Hans Brinckmann and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this striking and highly engaging collection of stories, author Hans Brinckmann takes us into the heart of his adopted country, Japan. Highlighting the intriguing surroundings and cultural details, each story draws the reader into an extraordinary experience. The offerings include A Leap into the Light, the compelling tale of a Dutch businessman's secretive life with the young daughter of his late Japanese mistress; Kyoto Bus Stop, about the chance encounter between a visitor from Europe and a mysterious young French woman in Kyoto; Pets in Marriage, which chronicles a Japanese married couple and their respective preference for cats and dogs, which comes to a head at the foot of Mt. Fuji; Twice upon a Plum Tree, an exploration of a Dutch diplomat's ambivalence about a Japanese woman he once loved; and the title story, The Tomb in the Kyoto Hills, about a Chicago-based lawyer who moves his family to Japan to find the truth of his origins once and for all. Hans Brinckmann was born in The Hague, came to Japan as a young man to work in a bank, and stayed twenty-four years.He subsequently lived in London, Curacao, Amsterdam, New York, and Sydney before returning to live in Tokyo once again in 2003. He quit banking early to turn to writing. For details of his publications see www.habri.jp http: //SBPRA.com/HansBrinckman
Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Curious Lore of Precious Stones by : George Frederick Kunz
Download or read book The Curious Lore of Precious Stones written by George Frederick Kunz and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Magic as Metaphor in Anime by : Dani Cavallaro
Download or read book Magic as Metaphor in Anime written by Dani Cavallaro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception as an art form, anime has engaged with themes, symbols and narrative strategies drawn from the realm of magic. In recent years, the medium has increasingly turned to magic specifically as a metaphor for a wide range of cultural, philosophical and psychological concerns. This book first examines a range of Eastern and Western approaches to magic in anime, addressing magical thinking as an overarching concept which unites numerous titles despite their generic and tonal diversity. It then explores the collusion of anime and magic with reference to specific topics. A close study of cardinal titles is complemented by allusions to ancillary productions in order to situate the medium's fascination with magic within an appropriately broad historical context.
Book Synopsis The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan by : Reiko Chiba
Download or read book The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan written by Reiko Chiba and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1966 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan are a group of deities whose origins stem from Indian, Chinese, and indigenous Japanese gods of fortune. Not all of the gods are mythical beings.
Download or read book Schoolgirl RPG written by Ewen Cluney and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School is in session! You're a perfectly ordinary schoolgirl at Sakuraba High. Well, ordinary apart from being a cyborg. And a catgirl. And insisting on carrying your Pyonkichi-san plush with you everywhere. Your best friend is normal too though. Apart from being a demon with an overactive imagination of course. You were having a pretty typical day at school. You know, a ninja attack during homeroom, then you found a secret treasure, then Freddie Mercury stopped by the school. Normal stuff. Schoolgirl RPG is a random comedy RPG about Japanese schoolgirls, based on the rules of Maid: The Role-Playing Game. To play you'll need some paper, six-sided dice, and friends. This Complete Edition has the core rules and all three Schoolgirl RPG supplements between two covers. There are bonus character options for schoolgirls, additional random event tables, a random objects, random items, rules for rolling up teacher characters, and even the Otoko no Michi rules for playing schoolBOYS (albeit mostly delinquents). Hours of random weirdness await you for a modest price!
Book Synopsis Japanese Mythology in Film by : Yoshiko Okuyama
Download or read book Japanese Mythology in Film written by Yoshiko Okuyama and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cyborg detective hunts for a malfunctioning sex doll that turns itself into a killing machine. A Heian-era Taoist slays evil spirits with magic spells from yin-yang philosophy. A young mortician carefully prepares bodies for their journey to the afterlife. A teenage girl drinks a cup of life-giving sake, not knowing its irreversible transformative power. These are scenes from the visually enticing, spiritually eclectic media of Japanese movies and anime. The narratives of courageous heroes and heroines and the myths and legends of deities and their abodes are not just recurring motifs of the cinematic fantasy world. They are pop culture’s representations of sacred subtexts in Japan. Japanese Mythology in Film takes a semiotic approach to uncovering such religious and folkloric tropes and subtexts embedded in popular Japanese movies and anime. Part I introduces film semiotics with plain definitions of terminology. Through familiar cinematic examples, it emphasizes the myth-making nature of modern-day film and argues that semiotics can be used as a theoretical tool for reading film. Part II presents case studies of eight popular Japanese films as models of semiotic analysis. While discussing each film’s use of common mythological motifs such as death and rebirth, its case study also unveils more covert cultural signifiers and folktale motifs, including jizo (a savior of sentient beings) and kori (bewitching foxes and raccoon dogs), hidden in the Japanese filmic text.
Book Synopsis The Undying Day by : Hans Brinckmann
Download or read book The Undying Day written by Hans Brinckmann and published by . This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widowed water bird in an Amsterdam canal abandoned villages flitting fitfully by' as he rides the Eurostar to Paris the sun, averse to setting, extending the you-filled day' such are the diverse sources of inspiration for Brinckmann's poetry. Unconstrained by locale or subject matter, his lines celebrate the marvel of love and ponder life's irretrievable losses. He is no stranger to whimsy either, nor to the search for life's ultimate meaning. After publishing a highly-acclaimed autobiography (The Magatama Doodle, 2005); a cosmopolitan collection of stories (Noon Elusive, 2006); and a history of postwar Japan (Showa Japan, 2008), Brinckmann now offers his readers this selection of his poetry, written over the past half-century in seven countries. The book ends with the memorable Ballad of Hope Hill, set to music and performed in The Netherlands. Brinckmann's translator, Hiromi Mizoguchi, has rendered the poems into exquisite Japanese, shown side-by-side with the originals.
Book Synopsis Kantei Supplement 2 by : Markus Sesko
Download or read book Kantei Supplement 2 written by Markus Sesko and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second supplement to the first two kantei volumes. It contains 175 koto, shinto and shinshinto blades in the classical order, namely koto-gokaden, koto other provinces, shinto-centres Kyoto, Osaka and Edo, shinto other provinces and shinshinto. The numbering continues with the last blade of the first supplementary volume, i.e. with number 419.
Download or read book Maid written by Ryo Kamiya and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maid: The Role-Playing Game is a comedic take on a uniquely Japanese cultural icon: The fetishized modern maid. Injecting the concept of Maid with 50ccs of anime and comedy, the players take on the roles of maids, serving the master (played by the GM). Sheets are left unfolded and mantelpieces undusted when giant robots crash through the mansion, ninjas attack and kidnap the young master, and a demonic pit to Hell opens up in the pantry... and all before teatime! Play in the modern comedy setting, or mix it up with 9 additional settings including Victorian era, old Edo period, fantasy and post-apocalypse; and 6 genres including romance, horror, and action. Due to the rules system and random events that form the backbone of the Maid RPG, the game practically runs itself: Go from opening the book to playing a game with friends within just minutes! Three game styles in one: The traditional scenario-type; the random event-driven type; and the "favor race," a race to the master's heart! Make characters and start playing the game within minutes of opening the book. Everything about the game gears it for Fast Play, Now. Optional character types including player-character masters and butlers, and optional rules for seduction and romantic tragedy. 11 complete adventure scenarios. 3 complete "replays," actual play scenarios in screenplay format. Great for learning the feel of the game. The first ever Japanese tabletop role-playing game to be released in English! ...which, when you think about it, totally makes sense in a weird sort of way. Hundreds of optional items, costumes, genre and setting events, all presented in a way to easily bring them into the game! Combines the original Japanese core book and two supplements into one huge, complete edition of the game in English. A $75 value!
Book Synopsis Legends and Stories around the Japanese Sword 2 by : Markus Sesko
Download or read book Legends and Stories around the Japanese Sword 2 written by Markus Sesko and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is now the second volume of my book ,,Legends and Stories around the Japanese Sword". Once more I try to bring the reader closer to the Japanese sword and dig deeper into the matter by the means of legends, stories and anecdotes about famous swords and their swordsmiths. Like in the first volume, I introduce several famous meito or meibutsu, for example the Kogarasu-maru, Yoshimoto-Samonji, Takemata-Kanemitsu, Kuronbogiri-Kagehide, Tsurumaru-Kuninaga and many more. And the stories deal among other things with the greatest swordsmiths in Japanese history like Masamune, Muramasa, Samonji, Kiyomaro and Kotetsu, to name only a few.
Book Synopsis The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces by : Dan X. Solo
Download or read book The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces written by Dan X. Solo and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of many books on typography, Dan X. Solo was also the proprietor of his own typography shop in Oakland, California — an establishment dedicated to unusual typography and special effects. This comprehensive catalog offers graphic designers a dazzling selection of over 4,000 typefaces and optical effects available from Solotype Typographers. Here, in Solo's words, is "a great cast of characters" — the alphabet — abetted by a cornucopia of typographical ideas and an endless resource of letters, words, phrases, slogans, logos, humorous comments, headlines, and graphic symbols. Individual sections of the book display a rich variety of typefaces in categories such as Condensed, Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Rustic, Thick-and-tin, Calligraphic, Uncials, Latins, and Blackletter. Samples are imaginatively presented. "Stagecoach," for example, is printed in Fargo typeface, evoking dusty trails, rawhide, and ten-gallon hats, while "Sizzling summer savings" appears appropriately in the flamboyant Firebug typeface. All typefaces are indexed for quick and easy reference. As entertaining as it is practical and useful, this impressive treasury of versatile typefaces and optical effects will be indispensable to busy commercial artists as an inexhaustible source of typographic ideas and a "swipe file" of words, phrases, and letters for use in graphic art projects.
Book Synopsis Noon Elusive and Other Stories by : Hans Brinckmann
Download or read book Noon Elusive and Other Stories written by Hans Brinckmann and published by . This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do a New York surgeon, a Balkan paratrooper, an American in Paris, a Dutch diplomat in Tokyo and a British undertaker have in common? They think - and hesitate.
