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Author : John Tadao Teramoto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Yamai No Sōshi written by John Tadao Teramoto and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michelle Osterfeld Li
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804771065
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Ambiguous Bodies written by Michelle Osterfeld Li and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambiguous Bodies draws from theories of the grotesque to examine many of the strange and extraordinary creatures and phenomena in the premodern Japanese tales called setsuwa. Grotesque representations in general typically direct our attention to unfinished and unrefined things; they are marked by an earthy sense of the body and an interest in the physical. Because they have many meanings, they can both sustain and undermine authority. This book aims to make sense of grotesque representations in setsuwa—animated detached body parts, unusual sexual encounters, demons and shape-shifting or otherwise wondrous animals—and, in a broader sense, to show what this type of critical focus can reveal about the mentality of Japanese people in the ancient, classical, and early medieval periods. It is the first study to place Japanese tales of this nature, which have received little critical attention in English, within a sophisticated theoretical framework. Li masterfully and rigorously focuses on these fascinating tales in the context of the historical periods in which they were created and compiled.
Author : Noriko T. Reider
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646420551
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Mountain Witches written by Noriko T. Reider and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamauba—female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and large mouths that open from ear to ear and who live in the mountains—and the evolution of their roles and significance in Japanese culture and society from the premodern era to the present. In recent years yamauba have attracted much attention among scholars of women’s literature as women unconstrained by conformative norms or social expectations, but this is the first book to demonstrate how these figures contribute to folklore, Japanese studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. Situating the yamauba within the construct of yōkai and archetypes, Noriko T. Reider investigates the yamauba attributes through the examination of narratives including folktales, literary works, legends, modern fiction, manga, and anime. She traces the lineage of a yamauba image from the seventh-century text Kojiki to the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo, and explores its emergence as well as its various, often conflicting, characteristics. Reider also examines the adaptation and re-creation of the prototype in diverse media such as modern fiction, film, manga, anime, and fashion in relation to the changing status of women in Japanese society. Offering a comprehensive overview of the development of the yamauba as a literary and mythic trope, Mountain Witches is a study of an archetype that endures in Japanese media and folklore. It will be valuable to students, scholars, and the general reader interested in folklore, Japanese literature, demonology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, and the visual and performing arts.
Author : Alexander R. Bay
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580464270
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Beriberi in Modern Japan written by Alexander R. Bay and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the medical and scientific debate about the etiology of the disease as it played out between diet theorists and contagionists from 1880 to 1940. In modern Japan, beriberi (or thiamin deficiency) became a public health problem that cut across all social boundaries, afflicting even the Meiji Emperor. During an age of empire building for the Japanese nation, incidence rates in the military ranged from 30 percent in peacetime to 90 percent during war. Doctors and public health officials called beriberi a "national disease" because it festered within the bodies of the people and threatened the health ofthe empire. Nevertheless, they could not agree over what caused the disease, attributing it to a diet deficiency or a microbe. In Beriberi in Modern Japan, Alexander R. Bay examines the debates over the etiologyof this "national disease" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Etiological consensus came after World War I, but the struggle at the national level to direct beriberi prevention continued, peaking during wartime mobilization. War served as the context within which scientific knowledge of beriberi and its prevention was made. The story of beriberi research is not simply about the march toward the inevitable discovery of "the beriberi vitamin," but rather the history of the role of medicine in state-making and empire-building in modern Japan. Alexander Bay is assistant professor of history at Chapman University.
Author : Brett L. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316239691
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book A Concise History of Japan written by Brett L. Walker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the uses of science and medicine. The book begins by tracing the country's early history through archaeological remains, before proceeding to explore life in the imperial court, the rise of the samurai, civil conflict, encounters with Europe, and the advent of modernity and empire. Integrating the pageantry of a unique nation's history with today's environmental concerns, Walker's vibrant and accessible new narrative then follows Japan's ascension from the ashes of World War II into the thriving nation of today. It is a history for our times, posing important questions regarding how we should situate a nation's history in an age of environmental and climatological uncertainties.
Author : Adam Kern
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176085
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Manga from the Floating World written by Adam Kern and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first full-length study in English of the kibyōshi, a genre of woodblock-printed comicbook widely read in late eighteenth-century Japan that became an influential form of political satire. The volume is copiously illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Ishige
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136602550
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book History Of Japanese Food written by Ishige and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. The history of Japan is usually divided into ages and periods corresponding to changes in government. The ancient age, marked by the central authority of the imperial court and its bureaucracy, gave way in the twelfth century to the medieval age of warrior governments. The early modern age began in the sixteenth century with reunification and the emergence of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the modern age dates from the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Rather than the periodization used by historians, this book adopts an original system conceived by the author as a practical framework for investigating the dietary history of the Japanese.
Author : Paul Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Open Court written by Paul Carus and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keri Watson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000553450
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability written by Keri Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. This companion is organized thematically and includes artists from across historical periods and cultures in order to demonstrate the ways in which disability is historically and culturally contingent. The book engages with questions such as: How are people with disabilities represented in art? How are notions of disability articulated in relation to ideas of normality, hybridity, and anomaly? How do artists use visual culture to affirm or subvert notions of the normative body? Contributors consider the changing role of disability in visual culture, the place of representations in society, and the ways in which disability studies engages with and critiques intersectional notions of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. This book will be particularly useful for scholars in art history, disability studies, visual culture, and museum studies.
Author : Suzanne Marie Gay
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824824617
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (246 download)
Download or read book The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto written by Suzanne Marie Gay and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto examines the large community of sake brewer -- moneylenders in Japan's capital city, focusing on their rise to prominence from the mid-1300s to 1550. Their guild tie to overlords, notably the great monastery Enryakuji, was forged early in the medieval period, giving them a protected monopoly and allowing them to flourish. Demand for credit was strong in medieval Kyoto, and brewers profitably recirculated capital for loans.As the medieval period progressed, the brewer-lenders came into their own. While maintaining overlord ties, they engaged in activities that brought them into close contact with every segment of Kyoto's population. The more socially prominent brewers served as tax agents for religious institutions, the shogunate, and the imperial court, and were actively involved in a range of cultural pursuits including tea and linked verse.Although the merchants themselves left only the faintest record, Suzanne Gay has fully and convincingly depicted this important group of medieval commoners.
Author : Philip A. Mackowiak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190858214
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Patients as Art written by Philip A. Mackowiak and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patients as Art explores the capacity of art to provide a unique perspective on the history of humankind. Featuring over 160 full-color works of art, this book offers a pictorial review of medical history stretching from Paleolithic times to the present, reflecting the ideals and sensibilities of the times in which they were created, and communicating formal, spiritual, and scientific values. Dr. Mackowiak reveals what these works have to say about the status of the "art of medicine" in the past and its relationship to the medicine of today.
Author : William Wayne Farris
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824829735
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Japan's Medieval Population written by William Wayne Farris and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Japan's Medieval Population will be required reading for specialists in pre-modern Japanese history, who will appreciate it not only for its thought-provoking arguments, but also for its methodology and use of sources. It will be of interest as well to modern Japan historians and scholars and students of comparative social and economic development."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : S. Mishima
Publisher : Wayenborgh Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9062998992
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book The The History of Ophthalmology in Japan written by S. Mishima and published by Wayenborgh Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon E. Mestler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book A Galaxy of Old Japanese Medical Books with Miscellaneous Notes on Early Medicine in Japan written by Gordon E. Mestler and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eisaku Kanazawa
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811219699
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Japanese Dentition: Anthropology And History written by Eisaku Kanazawa and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the achievements of dental anthropology research in Japan to the people in the world. It starts with the tooth morphology of the people in the Paleolithic Period about 20,000 years ago. Then it goes through Jomon Age and Yayoi Age when the admixture of the people happened. Here the difference of the tooth shape between those two human groups is emphasized. After these ages, Japanese teeth were not the same from age to age influenced by the environment. In the current age of Japan, topics such as third molar agenesis, change of eruption time of the first permanent teeth, mandibular torus, and high canine are discussed. These abnormal conditions in Japan also reflect the characteristic features of Japanese history and culture.
Author : Andrew Edmond Goble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan written by Andrew Edmond Goble and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confluences of Medicine is the first book-length exploration in English of issues of medicine and society in premodern Japan. This multifaceted study weaves a rich tapestry of Buddhist healing practices, Chinese medical knowledge, Asian pharmaceuticals, and Islamic formulas as it elucidates their appropriation and integration into medieval Japanese medicine. It expands the parameters of the study of medicine in East Asia, which to date has focused on the subject in individual countries, and introduces the dynamics of interaction and exchange that coursed through the East Asian macro-culture. The book explores these themes primarily through the two extant works of the Buddhist priest and clinical physician Kajiwara Shozen (1265–1337), who was active at the medical facility housed at Gokurakuji temple in Kamakura, the capital of Japan’s first warrior government. With access to large numbers of printed Song medical texts and a wide range of materia medica from as far away as the Middle East, Shozen was a beneficiary of the efflorescence of trade and exchange across the East China Sea that typifies this era. His break with the restrictions of Japanese medicine is revealed in Ton’isho (Book of the simple physician) and Man’apo (Myriad relief formulas). Both of these texts are landmarks: the former being the first work written in Japanese for a popular audience; the latter, the most extensive Japanese medical work prior to the seventeenth century. Confluences of Medicine brings to the fore the range of factors—networks of Buddhist priests, institutional support, availability of materials, relevance of overseas knowledge to local conditions of domestic strife, and serendipity—that influenced the Japanese acquisition of Chinese medical information. It offers the first substantive portrait of the impact of the Song printing revolution in medieval Japan and provides a rare glimpse of Chinese medicine as it was understood outside of China. It is further distinguished by its attention to materia medica and medicinal formulas and to the challenges of technical translation and technological transfer in the reception and incorporation of a new pharmaceutical regime.
Author : Kazuko Kameda-Madar
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004528024
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Imagery of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering: Visualizing Tokugawa Cultural Networks written by Kazuko Kameda-Madar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the diverse visual representations of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering produced during the Edo period Japan.
