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The Tomb In The Kyoto Hills And Other Stories
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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 Kyoto written by John H. Martin and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital and modern-day center of tourism and traditional culture, is one of the world's most beautiful and historic cities. Founded nearly 1,300 years ago and undamaged by the war, Kyoto today is the home of over 1,600 Buddhist temples, 400 Shinto shrines, countless national treasures and 17 World Heritage sites, including the famed Golden Pavilion, Nijo Castle and Kiyomizu Temple. This book presents 29 easy-to-follow walking tours through Kyoto's history, its many unique districts and scenic areas full of charm and character. You'll discover not only the most renowned sites, such as the Silver Pavilion, the rock garden at Ryoan-ji Temple and the garden of the Heian Shrine, but also little-known areas off the beaten track. Much more than a guidebook, this volume tells the historical and cultural story of Kyoto's great monuments. The colorful tales, fascinating facts, larger-than-life characters and grand events that shaped the city and Japan at large will enthrall every reader. This updated and greatly expanded guide features over 100 color photos, full-color maps that trace each route and detailed diagrams of many individual sites.
Book Synopsis Lieutenant Lookeast, and Other Stories by : Masuji Ibuse
Download or read book Lieutenant Lookeast, and Other Stories written by Masuji Ibuse and published by London : Secker and Warburg. This book was released on 1971 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C. by :
Download or read book Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C. written by and published by . This book was released on 1904-04 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Yet Being Someone Other by : Laurens Van Der Post
Download or read book Yet Being Someone Other written by Laurens Van Der Post and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was.
Download or read book Kyoto written by John Dougill and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyoto, the ancient former capital of Japan, breathes history and mystery. Its temples, gardens and palaces are testimony to many centuries of aristocratic and religious grandeur. Under the veneer of modernity, the city remains filled with countless reminders of a proud past. John Dougill explores this most venerable of Japanese cities, revealing the spirit of place and the individuals that have shaped its often dramatic history. Courtiers and courtesans, poets and priests, samurai and geisha people the pages of his account. Covering twelve centuries in all, the book not only provides a historical overview but brings to life the cultural magnificence of the city of "Purple Hills and Crystal Streams". City of Power: The seat of aristocrats and warriors; military might and spiritual authority; unification and the transition to modernity. City of Ritual: Buddhist sects and Shinto festivals; tea ceremony; the role of the geisha; the influence of Zen. City of Arts: Poetry and fiction; architecture and garden design; Heian verse and Noh theatre; art and handicrafts; the Japanese Hollywood.
Download or read book The Japan Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Eyes of Power by : Karen Margaret Gerhart
Download or read book The Eyes of Power written by Karen Margaret Gerhart and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the political thrust behind some of the most important officially sponsored art of the early Tokugawa, Karen Gerhart takes as her focus the heyday of the rule of the third Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu. She analyzes aspects of painting, architecture and sculpture created expressly under the patronage of Iemitsu at three major monuments - the castles an Nijo and Nagoya and the sumptuous decoration of the great Tokugawa mausoleum, Nikko Toshogu. In highlighting key examples of artistic production, Gerhart brings to the fore significant themes and issues that exemplify political art in the first half of the 17th century.
Book Synopsis The Official Guide-book to Kyoto and the Allied Prefectures by : M. Ichihara
Download or read book The Official Guide-book to Kyoto and the Allied Prefectures written by M. Ichihara and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tomb of Oedipus by : Wililam Marx
Download or read book The Tomb of Oedipus written by Wililam Marx and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly Everything We Think We Know about Greek Tragedy Is Wrong If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here starts the story of a long and incredible misunderstanding. Out of the hundreds of tragedies that were performed, only 32 were preserved in full. Who chose them and why? Why are the lost ones never taken into account? This extremely unusual scholarly book tells us an Umberto Eco-like story about the lost tragedies. By arguing that they would have given a radically different picture, William Marx makes us think in completely new ways about one of the major achievements of Western culture. In this very readable, stimulating, lively, and even sometimes funny book, he explores parallels with Japanese theatre, resolves the enigma of catharsis, sheds a new light on psychoanalysis. In so doing, he tells also the story of the misreadings of our modernity, which disconnected art from the body, the place, and gods. Two centuries ago philosophers transformed Greek tragedies into an ideal archetype, now they want to read them as self-help handbooks, but all are equally wrong: Greek tragedy is definitely not what you think, and we may never understand it, but this makes it matter all the more to us.
Download or read book Japan written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kyoto a Cultural Guide by : John H. Martin
Download or read book Kyoto a Cultural Guide written by John H. Martin and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children turned emperor, emperors turned priest, and priests turned poet are just a few of the colorful characters described in Kyoto: A Cultural Guide. The fascinating facts, larger-than-life characters and grand events described within offer abundant proof that, more than just a treasure house of shrines and temples, Kyoto is indeed one of the most enticing cities in the world. For example, Benkei, an eight-foot-tall monk with a wildly combative nature, was defeated on the Gojo Bridge by a voting warrior who had received his training in swordsmanship from a tengu goblin. Benkei's defeat is memorialized at Kyoto's Kiyomizu-dera temple in the form of an oversize iron staff and gela created by a blind blacksmith. Oishi entered into a life of debauchery at the lchiriki tea house in Gion with the sole intention of avenging the disgrace of his former master. After gathering together 46 other samurai, he exacted his revenge. Thus the tale of The Forty Seven Ronin was born. A guidebook to 14 walking tours, Kyoto: A Cultural Guide is also a kaleidoscopic reference and resource book certain to please long-term residents and first-time travelers.
Book Synopsis Essential Japan by : Hofer Communications
Download or read book Essential Japan written by Hofer Communications and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Official Guide to Eastern Asia by : Japan. Tetsudōin
Download or read book An Official Guide to Eastern Asia written by Japan. Tetsudōin and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japan Times. Weekly Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Buddhist Spirituality by : Takeuchi Yoshinori
Download or read book Buddhist Spirituality written by Takeuchi Yoshinori and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2003 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the great religions, it is Buddhism that has focused most intensively on that aspects of religion that we call spirituality. No religion has ste a higher value on states of spiritual insight and liberation, and none has set forth so methodologically and with such a wealth of reflection the various paths and with such a wealth of reflection the various paths and disciplines by which such states are reached. The aim of the volumes on Buddhism is to survey the entire tradition both chronologically and geographically in the varieties of its historical forms and in the great diversity of its teachings.
Book Synopsis From Castle to Teahouse by : John B. Kirby, Jr
Download or read book From Castle to Teahouse written by John B. Kirby, Jr and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Momoyama period of Japanese art history, at the turn of the 16th century, is perhaps best known to the West through the resplendent paintings of the Kano masters and their fellow artists. Yet this same period offers such a variety of architectural pleasures that, in at least one of its many facets, it makes an appeal to every taste. It ranges from the largest and most imposing castles to the smallest and most tastefully designed teahouses. Paintings and gardens are an integral part of it, as they are in all Japanese architecture, and here, also, the range extends from the gorgeous and elaborate to the utmost in simplicity and restraint. It is with this exuberant period in Japanese history that the present book is concerned. Its purpose is to present, against a background of colorful history, the architectural achievements of an elegant age. In the first part of this book, Mr. Kirby discusses and illustrates the principal forms of castle, shoin, and sukiya architecture that he considers to the most important contributions of the Momoyama period. The second part presents existing examples of Momoyama structures together with a brief section on developments of less importance in religious architecture and construction of an essentially engineering nature. All of these are pictured in a generous selection of excellent photographs accompanied by plans and elevations for a number of the structures discussed.
