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Author : Yutaka Takanashi
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Toshi-e written by Yutaka Takanashi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text by Gerry Badger, Jeffrey Ladd, Gozo Yoshimasu.
Author : Saburo Horikawa
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030716007
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Why Place Matters written by Saburo Horikawa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the author’s 33 years of intensive fieldwork. It chronicles a major movement that shaped the preservation policy in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s, providing “thick descriptions” of preservationists that are not available anywhere else in English. It also provides clear answers to a series of pressing questions about preservationists: are they building-huggers, are they selfish and myopic home-owners, or are they merely obstacles to urban planning and urban renewal? Since 1984, Saburo Horikawa, Professor of Sociology at Hosei University in Tokyo, has continuously studied the movement to preserve the Otaru Canal in Otaru, Japan. This book shows that the preservation movement was neither conservative nor an obstacle. Rather, the movement sought to promote changes in which the residents’ “place” would continue to be theirs. As such, the word “preservation” does not mean the prevention of growth and development, but rather its control. As is shown in this study, preservation allows for and can even promote change. The original Japanese version of this book (published by the University of Tokyo Press) has won 3 major academic awards; most notably, “The Ishikawa Prize”, the highest award bestowed by the City Planning Institute of Japan. It is extremely unusual that a sociology book should receive such important recognition from the city planning discipline.
Author : S Rahvar
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814480371
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Mathematical Physics written by S Rahvar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-05-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1984, a series of regional conferences on mathematical physics has been organized by physicists from Iran, Pakistan and Turkey to promote the research in mathematical and theoretical physics in the region. This volume, which derives from the XI Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics, comprises 8 review and 44 research articles on the most significant topics in mathematical and theoretical physics such as astrophysics and cosmology, conformal field theory, high energy physics, general relativity and plasma physics. The review articles are comprehensive and self-contained and report on the most important developments in the corresponding subjects. Each review article provides a complete list of references, which is especially useful for graduate students who are just starting their research activities; even ambitious undergraduates in physics can use these review papers as useful background material to go further into the subject and explore the research literature. They are contributed by prominent senior scientists: M Moniez (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineare, France) and V Sahni (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), India) in Astrophysics and Cosmology, W Nahm (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), Ireland) in Conformal Field Theory, J Lukierski (University of Wroclaw, Poland) in Mathematical Physics, Riazuddin and Fayyazuddin (Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan) in High Energy Physics, N Dadhich (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), India) and A Qadir (National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan) in General Relativity, and N Tsintsadze (Tbilisi State University, Georgia) in Plasma Physics. Contents:Astrophysics and Cosmology:Does Transparent Hidden Matter Generate Optical Scintillation? (M Moniez)Galactic MACHO Budget: Problems and Possible Solution with the Abundant Brown Dwarfs (S Rahvar)The Mysterious Nature of Dark Energy (V Sahni)Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics:Two-Band Ginzburg-Landau Theory and Its Application to Recently Discovered Superconductors (I N Askerzade)Charge and Magnetization Plateaux in Strongly Correlated Systems (A Langari)Exactly Solvable Problems for Two-Dimensional Excitons (D G W Parfitt & M E Portnoi)High Energy Physics — Phenomenology:SUL(4) x U(1) Model for Electroweak Unification (Fayyazuddin)Some Remarks on Neutrino Mass Matrix (Riazuddin)General Relativity and Quantum Gravity:Probing Universality of Gravity (N Dadhich)Observing Black Holes (P De Paolis et al.)Constraint Algebra in Causal Loop Quantum Gravity (F Shojai & A Shojai)Mathematical Physics:Quantum Deformations of Relativistic Symmetries: Some Recent Developments (J Lukierski)Thermodynamics Bethe Ansatz (TBA) (W Nahm)Hidden Property of Extended Jordanian Twists for Lie Superalgebras (V N Tolstoy)Noncommutative Field Theory and String Theory:Exact Wilsonian Effective Superpotential for Noncommutative N = 1 Supersymmetric U(1) (F Ardalan & N Sadooghi)Aspects of Noncommutative Gauge Theories and Their Commutative Equivalents (R Banerjee)Plasma Physics:Relativistic Thermodynamics of the Strong Magnetized Dense Electron Plasma (N L Tsintsadze)and other papers Readership: Researchers in mathematical physics, theoretical physics, high energy physics, astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology and condensed matter physics. Keywords:Mathematical Physics;String Theory;Plasma Physics;CosmologyKey Features:Includes eight high quality review articles on various subjects in physics, such as astrophysics and cosmology, conformal field theory, mathematical physics, high energy physics, general relativity and plasma physics, contributed by prominent physicistsUseful for advanced graduate students and active researchers in physics
Author : United States Board on Geographic Names
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book United States Board on Geographic Names: Gazetteer written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yoshiko Imaizumi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004254188
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Sacred Space in the Modern City written by Yoshiko Imaizumi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Space in the Modern City offers strikingly new and original perspectives on a number of controversial issues and important questions concerning Japanese pre- and post-war ideology and identity. Meiji shrine is not just ‘a’ shrine; it is ‘the’ shrine of twentieth-century Japan. This book is also noteworthy on account of its use of previously untouched archival materials as well as for its broad range of theoretical approaches applied within a multidisciplinary context. The author uses Meiji shrine as a lens with which to investigate the nature of the society that created, experienced and reproduced this site. This long-overdue study will be widely welcomed by researchers interested in Shinto and Meiji Japan, as well as the wider readership wishing to access the social history of Taisho and early Showa Japan.
Author : Susana S. Martins
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462700583
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Paper Cities written by Susana S. Martins and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought-provoking case studies on cities, photographs and booksPhotographic books are almost as old as photography itself, and the city is one of their first and more recurring themes. Cities have been, and they continue to be, intensely photographed under a wide variety of forms, materialities, intentions and genres. This volume examines how a city can be moulded through the particularities of a photographic book, suggesting how urban portraits configure an overlooked, yet quite specific, photo-textual practice. Ranging from early photography to contemporary works, Paper Cities gathers thought-provoking case studies from several international contexts, providing new insights into art, material culture, history, heritage and memory, while simultaneously illuminating the debate on cities, photographs and books. Contributors: Steven Jacobs (Ghent University), Simon Dell (University of East Anglia), Hugh Campbell (University College Dublin), Steven Humblet (LUCA School of Arts), Chris Balaschak (Flagler College), Annarita Teodosio (University of Salerno), Cecile Laly (Université Paris I), Mónica Pacheco (University College London), Douglas Klahr (University of Texas), Johanna M. Blokker (Bamberg University), Philip Goldswain (University of Western Australia).
Author : James L. Huffman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824872916
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan written by James L. Huffman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japan’s hinmin (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman draws on newspaper articles, official surveys, and reminiscences to recreate for readers life as experienced by the poor themselves—something not attempted before in scholarship on this era. He begins by explaining the causes behind the fast-increasing numbers of poor neighborhoods in major cities after the late 1880s and goes on to describe in fascinating detail what those neighborhoods looked like and what their inhabitants did for a living: collecting night soil, weaving textiles, making match boxes and other piecework, pulling rickshaws, building the structures that made Japan “modern,” and supplying much of the era’s entertainment, including sex. He also explores what hinmin did outside of work: what they ate, where they did their wash, how they stretched their meager budgets by using pawn brokers, and how they dealt with illness and other disasters and grappled with the painful necessity of sending children to work rather than to school. Huffman argues that despite the tremendous challenge of day-to-day living, hinmin confronted life as energetic agents, embracing it as avidly as members of the more affluent classes. Reading sources carefully, and often against the grain, he reveals that many of the poor found meaning in their work, took an active and even influential part in their cities’ politics, and nursed ambitions for a better life. And nearly all took part in the pleasures and festivities that urban neighborhoods offered. Later chapters examine poverty outside the cities and the large-scale emigration of indigent farmers to Hawai‘i’s sugar plantations, beginning in 1885. In his conclusion, Huffman looks at late-Meiji hardship in light of twenty-first-century poverty and the global income disparity that has captured the public’s attention in recent years.
Author : James Curtis Hepburn
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Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book 和英語林集成 written by James Curtis Hepburn and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Partner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520937758
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Toshie written by Simon Partner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sakaue Toshié was born on August 14, 1925, into a family of tenant farmers and day laborers in the hamlet of Kosugi. The world she entered was one of hard labor, poverty, dirt, disease, and frequent early death. By the 1970s, that rural world had changed almost beyond recognition. Toshié is the story of that extraordinary transformation as witnessed and experienced by Toshié herself. A sweeping social history of the Japanese countryside in its twentieth-century transition from "peasant" to "consumer" society, the book is also a richly textured account of the life of one village woman and her community caught up in the inexorable march of historical events. Through the lens of Toshié's life, Simon Partner shows us the realities of rural Japanese life during the 1930s depression; daily existence under the wartime regime of "spiritual mobilization"; the land reform and its consequences during occupation; and the rapid emergence of a consumer culture against the background of agricultural mechanization during the 1950s and 1960s. In some ways representative and in other ways unique, Toshié's narrative raises questions about conventional frameworks of twentieth-century Japanese history, and about the place of individual agency and choice in an era often seen as dominated by the impersonal forces of modernity: technology, state power, and capitalism.
Author : Takenobu Yoshitarō
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Takenobu's Japanese-English Dictionary written by Takenobu Yoshitarō and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Franz Prichard
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549334
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Residual Futures written by Franz Prichard and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary and visual media took a deep interest in cities and their problems, and what this rapid change meant for the country. In Residual Futures, Franz Prichard offers a pathbreaking analysis of the works wrought from this intensive urbanization, mapping the ways in which Japanese filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other artists came to grips with the entwined ecologies of a drastic transformation. Residual Futures examines crucial works of documentary film, fiction, and photography that interrogated Japan’s urbanization and integration into the U.S.-dominated geopolitical system. Prichard discusses documentary filmmaker Tsuchimoto Noriaki’s portrait of the urban “traffic war” and the remaking of Tokyo for the 1964 Olympics, novelist Abe Kōbō’s depictions of infrastructure and urban sociality, and the radical notions of landscape that emerge from the critical and photographic work of Nakahira Takuma. His careful readings reveal the shifting relationships among urban materialities and subjectivities and the ecological, political, and aesthetic vocabularies of urban change. A novel cultural history of critical urban discourse in Japan, Residual Futures brings an interdisciplinary approach to Japanese literary and visual media studies. It provides a vital new perspective on the infrastructural aesthetics and entangled urban and media conditions of the global Cold War.
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ISBN 13 : 9781935004110
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Toshi-e written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shunjiro Kurita
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Who's who in Japan written by Shunjiro Kurita and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gilbert Rozman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400870933
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Urban Networks in Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan written by Gilbert Rozman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan were unusually urbanized premodern societies where about one half of the world's urban population lived as late as 1800. Gilbert Rozman has drawn on both sociology and history to develop original methods of illuminating the historical urbanization of China and Japan and to provide a way of relating urban patterns to other characteristics of social structure in premodern societies. The author also hopes to redirect the analysis of premodern societies into areas where China and Japan can be compared with each other and with other large scale societies. The author divides central places into seven levels and determines how many levels were present in each country century by century. Through this method he is able to demonstrate how Japan was rapidly narrowing China's lead in urbanization and show that Japan was relatively efficient in concentrating resources in high level cities. Explanations for differences in urban concentration are sought in: a general discussion of the social structure of each country; an analysis of marketing patterns; a detailed study of Chihli province and the Kantō region; an examination of regional variations; and a comparison of Peking and Edo, which were probably the world's largest cities throughout the eighteenth century. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Christoph Brumann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136485155
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto written by Christoph Brumann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the historic capital of the country and the stronghold of the nation’s most celebrated traditions, the city of Kyoto holds a unique place in the Japanese imagination. Widely praised for the beauty of its townscape and natural environments, it is both a popular destination for tourists and home to one and a half million inhabitants. There has been a sustained, lively debate about how best to develop the city, with a large number of local government officials, citizen activists, urban planners, real-estate developers, architects, builders, proprietors, academic researchers, and ordinary Kyotoites involved in discussions, forming a highly peculiar social arena that has no match elsewhere in Japan. This book, based on extensive fieldwork and interviews, provides an ethnographic study of this particular social field. It analyses how people in Kyoto deal with their most cherished traditions, such as the traditional town houses and the famous Gion matsuri festival, which calls into question several of the standard social scientific assumptions about the functions of cultural heritage for present-day societies. The book looks at the way concerned citizens, government bureaucrats, and other important players interact with each other over contentious modern buildings, often with the best intentions but constrained by set role expectations and by the superior power of national-level regulations and agencies. This book contributes to debates on the social uses of tradition and heritage, and the question of how to create sustainable, liveable urban environments.
Author : Keith Adamson
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1804250961
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book My Margaret, Your Toshie written by Keith Adamson and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel based on the intertwined lives of Margaret MacDonald & Charles Rennie Mackintosh. War has broken out and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is in self-imposed exile from his native Glasgow, painting wildflowers in watercolour in a sleepy Suffolk village. As a man from 'foreign parts', however, he falls prey to the suspicions of apprehensive villagers, even finding himself accused of spying. With tensions running high, it is his wife Margaret who comes to the rescue by engineering their escape to Chelsea. There they find themselves in a burgeoning artistic scene where old friends encourage them to seek out a completely new life in a rather different part of the world. Will this be the turning point? Can Margaret's continuing love and support be just the leverage Charles needs to reinvent himself as an artist?
Author : Atsuko Sakaki
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004306994
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature written by Atsuko Sakaki and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close reading of photography-inspired texts by Tanizaki, Abe, Horie and Kanai, The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature by Atsuko Sakaki examines the Japanese literary engagement with photography as a means of bringing forgotten subject-object dynamics to light.
