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Book Synopsis Under The Sakura Blossoms Where I First Met You by : Damian Hottendorf
Download or read book Under The Sakura Blossoms Where I First Met You written by Damian Hottendorf and published by Damian Hottendorf. This book was released on with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to my first ever book! This is a ROMANCE/DRAMA/SLICE OF LIFE novel. Go on a trip with Haru Sato as he experiences life in his new home of Tokyo. Haru is now 17 years old and he wants to make a change to his life, which is... blending in with society! He experiences family drama, and romance along the way. But he figures out what he needed most in life. Love. Embark on a journey with the trio friends, Haru Sato, Hikaru Abe, and Akasuki Ito as we see whatʻs ahead of their future! Book Specs: 91 Pages, 28k Words, 16 Chapters, 350 Average Words per. Page Thereʻs guaranteed to have lots of typos, but I will continue to update this book.
Download or read book Under the Cherry Blossom Tree written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cherry tree growing from the top of the wicked landlord's head is the beginning of his misfortunes and a better life for the poor villagers.
Download or read book The Sakura Obsession written by Naoko Abe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, the flowering of cherry blossoms marks the beginning of spring. But if it weren’t for the pioneering work of an English eccentric, Collingwood “Cherry” Ingram, Japan’s beloved cherry blossoms could have gone extinct. Ingram first fell in love with the sakura, or cherry tree, when he visited Japan on his honeymoon in 1907 and was so taken with the plant that he brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England. Years later, upon learning that the Great White Cherry had virtually disappeared from Japan, he buried a living cutting from his own collection in a potato and repatriated it via the Trans-Siberian Express. In the years that followed, Ingram sent more than 100 varieties of cherry tree to new homes around the globe. As much a history of the cherry blossom in Japan as it is the story of one remarkable man, The Sakura Obsession follows the flower from its significance as a symbol of the imperial court, through the dark days of the Second World War, and up to the present-day worldwide fascination with this iconic blossom.
Book Synopsis Sakura's Cherry Blossoms by : Robert Paul Weston
Download or read book Sakura's Cherry Blossoms written by Robert Paul Weston and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm, gorgeous exploration of a little girl's experience immigrating to a new country and missing her home and her grandmother, who still lives far away. Sakura's dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees, under which she and her grandmother used to play and picnic. She wonders how she'll ever feel at home in this new place, with its unfamiliar language and landscape. One day, she meets her neighbor, a boy named Luke, and begins to feel a little more settled. When her grandmother becomes ill, though, her family takes a trip back to Japan. Sakura is sad when she returns to the States and once again reflects on all she misses. Luke does his best to cheer her up -- and tells her about a surprise he knows she'll love, but she'll have to wait till spring. In the meantime, Sakura and Luke's friendship blooms and finally, when spring comes, Luke takes her to see the cherry blossom trees flowering right there in her new neighborhood. Sakura's Cherry Blossoms captures the beauty of the healing power of friendship through Weston's Japanese poetry-inspired text and Saburi's breathtaking illustrations.
Book Synopsis I Met You After the End of the World (Light Novel) Volume 3 by : Oniisanbomber
Download or read book I Met You After the End of the World (Light Novel) Volume 3 written by Oniisanbomber and published by Oniisanbomber. This book was released on with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third-part of the [Salaryman x JK] post-apocalypse series! "We have all lost something precious somewhere down the long road of time." A virus has wiped out most of humanity. The world humanity built is slowly fading away, sinking into the ground, returning to the soil. Yamada Daisuke and Fujiwara Sayaka begin to figure out how to survive in a world without any modern comforts. Neither of them has any experience with farming, so they have to learn as they go. Sayaka knows it is best to stay in Kagoshima, but there is one more journey she needs to make. In the future, Sayaka goes on a journey with her daughter, Hana, retracing the steps she once took with Yamada Daisuke, while trying her best to raise Hana in a world that shows no mercy to the unprepared. The long road of time is filled with bittersweet memories. Will they find what they are looking for?
Download or read book Literary Mischief written by James Dorsey and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a writer who thrived on iconoclasm and agitation. He remains one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of twentieth-century Japan. Ango was catapulted into the public consciousness in the months immediately following Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945. The energy and iconoclasm of his writings were matched by the outrageous and outsized antics of his life. Behind that life, and in the midst of those tumultuous times, Ango spoke with a cutting clarity. The essays and translations included in Literary Mischief probe some of the most volatile issues of culture, ideology, and philosophy of postwar Japan. Represented among the essayists are some of Japan's most important contemporary critics (e.g., Karatani K?jin and Ogino Anna). Many of Ango's works were produced during Japan's wars in China and the Pacific, a context in which words and ideas carried dire consequences for both writers and readers. All of the contributions to this volume consider this dimension of Ango's legacy, and it forms one of the thematic threads tying the volume together. The essays use Ango's writings to situate his accomplishment and contribute to our understanding of the potentials and limitations of radical thought in times of cultural nationalism, war, violence, and repression. This collection of essays and translations takes advantage of current interest in Sakaguchi Ango's work and makes available to the English-reading audience translations and critical work heretofore unavailable. As a result, the reader will come away with a coherent sense of Ango the individual and the writer, a critical apparatus for evaluating Ango, and access to new translations of key texts.
Book Synopsis Cherry Blossom Time in Japan by : Lee Friedlander
Download or read book Cherry Blossom Time in Japan written by Lee Friedlander and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Taiwan Army Weapon Systems Handbook
Book Synopsis The Magic of Japan by : Hector Garcia
Download or read book The Magic of Japan written by Hector Garcia and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming collection of quirky insights into Japanese culture. The Magic of Japan is writer Hector Garcia's intensely personal account of his fifteen years in Japan. A self-professed "otaku" or Japanese anime geek since childhood, Garcia has worked for a Japanese software company, mastered the language, and become one of Japan's most popular bloggers. This book is the culmination of his experiences and showcases Garcia's unique ability to delve beneath the surface of Japanese culture to describe its quirky and deep spiritual underpinnings. This collection of essays and beautiful photographs will appeal to his worldwide fan base--including those who devoured his previous bestsellers, A Geek in Japan and Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life--Japanophiles, armchair travelers and anyone with an interest in cultural and travel memoirs. The Magic of Japan features Garcia's keen observations on a wide variety of cultural topics: Japanese behavioral traits, including non-verbal communication, hansei (self-reflection), heijoshin (a calm mind) and shoshin (childlike openness) How Japan's geography and history have shaped its culture--its natural disasters, scarce resources, centuries of isolation and its feudal past Japanese idiosyncrasies, ranging from food traditions and absurd jobs to a love of queues The Japanese spirit, as evidenced in traditional art, manga and attitudes to women Shintoism and Buddhism, looking at temples, festivals, rituals and how religious beliefs pervade popular culture, as seen for example in Studio Ghibli's movie Spirited Away Japan's dark side, including crime, the yakuza, adultery, bullying and suicide The book ends with a gloriously random selection of all things Garcia considers especially magical about Japan--from izakaya to shiitake mushrooms, summer fireworks and green tea!
Book Synopsis A Spoken Views Production by : Spoken Views
Download or read book A Spoken Views Production written by Spoken Views and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry with Satisfaction Guaranteed
Book Synopsis Mr. Kurihara's Return by : Mary-Jo Balman
Download or read book Mr. Kurihara's Return written by Mary-Jo Balman and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yomimasu Kurihara is at it again. In this, his latest escapade, the master criminal and master of disguise is being pursued throughout Japan for one of the most brilliant crimes of his lucrative career. While this personable and charming anti-hero wins the enjoyment and admiration of all those who follow his exploits, his hapless victims, in light of their avaricious natures, are far from appreciative of his talents. Mr. Kurihara's intellect, imagination and sense of humor, coupled with no small degree of good fortune, serve him well. But, even Mr. Kurihara, whom most women find irresistable, surprisingly discovers that when it counts, he is not that fortunate in matters of the heart.
Download or read book Urban Forests written by Jill Jonnes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction “Jonnes extols the many contributions that trees make to city life and celebrates the men and women who stood up for America’s city trees over the past two centuries. . . . An authoritative account.” —Gerard Helferich, The Wall Street Journal “We all know that trees can make streets look prettier. But in her new book Urban Forests, Jill Jonnes explains how they make them safer as well.” —Sara Begley, Time Magazine A celebration of urban trees and the Americans—presidents, plant explorers, visionaries, citizen activists, scientists, nurserymen, and tree nerds—whose arboreal passions have shaped and ornamented the nation’s cities, from Jefferson’s day to the present As nature’s largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cities; they are living landmarks that define space, cool the air, soothe our psyches, and connect us to nature and our past. Today, four-fifths of Americans live in or near urban areas, surrounded by millions of trees of hundreds of different species. Despite their ubiquity and familiarity, most of us take trees for granted and know little of their fascinating natural history or remarkable civic virtues. Jill Jonnes’s Urban Forests tells the captivating stories of the founding mothers and fathers of urban forestry, in addition to those arboreal advocates presently using the latest technologies to illuminate the value of trees to public health and to our urban infrastructure. The book examines such questions as the character of American urban forests and the effect that tree-rich landscaping might have on commerce, crime, and human well-being. For amateur botanists, urbanists, environmentalists, and policymakers, Urban Forests will be a revelation of one of the greatest, most productive, and most beautiful of our natural resources.
Book Synopsis Cherry Blossom Epiphany -- The Poetry and Philosophy of a Flowering Tree by : Robin D. Gill
Download or read book Cherry Blossom Epiphany -- The Poetry and Philosophy of a Flowering Tree written by Robin D. Gill and published by Paraverse Press. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cherry Blossom Epiphany - the poetry and philosophy of a flowering tree - a selection, translation and lengthy explication of 3000 haiku, waka, senryû and kyôka about a major theme from I.P.O.O.H. (In Praise Of Olde Haiku)by robin d. gill 1. Haiku -Translation from Japanese to English 2. Japanese poetry - 8c-20c - waka, haiku and senryû 3. Natural History - flowering cherries 4. Japan - Culture - Edo Era 5. Nonfiction - Literature 6. Translation - applied 7. You tell me! If the solemn yet happy New Year's is the most important celebration of Japanese (Yamato) ethnic culture, and the quiet aesthetic practice of Moon-viewing in the fall the most elegant expression of Pan-Asian Buddhism=religion, the subject of this book, Blossom-viewing - which generally means sitting down together in vast crowds to drink, dance, sing and otherwise enjoy the flowering cherry in full-bloom - is less a rite than a riot (a word originally meaning an 'uproar'). The major carnival of the year, it is unusual for being held on a date that is not determined by astronomy, astrology or the accidents of history as most such events are in literate cultures. It takes place whenever the cherry trees are good and ready. Enjoyed in the flesh, the blossom-viewing, or hanami, is also of the mind, so much so, in fact, that poetry is often credited with the spread of the practice over the centuries from the Imperial courts to the maids of Edo. Nobles enjoyed link-verse contests presided over by famous poet-judges. Hermits hung poems feting this flower of flowers (to say the generic "flower" = hana in Japanese connotes "cherry!") on strips of paper from the branches of lone trees where only the wind would read them. In the Occident, too, flowers embody beauty and serve as reminders of mortality, but there is no flower that, like the cherry blossom, stands for all flowers. Even the rose, by any name, cannot compare with the sakura in depth and breadth of poetic trope or viewing practice. In Cherry Blossom Epiphany, Robin D. Gill hopes to help readers experience, metaphysically, some of this alternative world. Haiku is a hyper-short (17-syllabet or 7-beat) Japanese poem directly or indirectly touching upon seasonal phenomena, natural or cultural. Literally millions of these ku have been written, some, perhaps, many times, about the flowering cherry (sakura), and the human activity associated with it, blossom-viewing (hanami). As the most popular theme in traditional haiku (haikai), cherry-blossom ku tend to be overlooked by modern critics more interested in creativity expressed with fresh subjects; but this embarrassment of riches has much to offer the poet who is pushed to come up with something, anything, different from the rest and allows the editor to select from what is, for all practical purposes, an infinite number of ku. Literary critics, take note: Like Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! (2003) and Fly-ku! (2004), this book not only explores new ways to anthologize poetry but demonstrates the practice of multiple readings (an average of two per ku) as part of a composite translation turned into an object of art by innovative clustering. Book-collectors might further note that while Cherry Blossom Epiphany may not be hardback, it takes advantage of the many symbols included with Japanese font to introduce design ornamentation (the circle within the circle, the reverse (Buddhist) swastika, etc.) hitherto not found in English language print. It is a one-of-a-kind work of design by the author.
Download or read book Transitions written by Jesikah Sundin and published by Forest Tales Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Secrets are foolish creatures, I have learned. No longer do I wish to play with fools..." Five weeks after the Great Fire, the village square in New Eden Township bustles with rebuilding activities. Hope begins to flicker as a new future rises from the ashes of deception. Yet for three newly appointed Elements--Ember Watson, Skylar Kane, and Rain Daniels--the many transitions to Project Phase Two expose dark secrets that demand sacrifices. Sacrifices, they discover, that may still destroy the very community they vowed to protect and serve. Beyond the dome walls, Mackenzie Ferguson and Lynden Nichols refuse to feel powerless as Fillion Nichols stands trial. But, under constant surveillance, control and privacy seem as elusive as hope. Then Mack schemes an outrageous idea to help his friend reclaim ground by using the law to create an opportunity. The very same law, Lynden learns, that places her and Coal Hansen at risk of being forever separated. Embark on a journey with Ember, Skylar, Rain, Mack, and Lynden as they untangle truth from lies and rebuild hope after betrayal.
Book Synopsis I’ll Never Set Foot in That House Again! Volume 5 by : Milli-gram
Download or read book I’ll Never Set Foot in That House Again! Volume 5 written by Milli-gram and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight months after using her [Seed Creation] Skill to reverse the Martec Republic’s mana drought, it’s time for a special occasion: Chelsea’s fifteenth birthday! Experiencing her birthday with others for the first time, Chelsea’s huge coming-of-age celebration also marks a turning point in her life—being officially recognized as an adult in Chronowize. And as luck would have it, she receives an important request the very next day: visiting the Holy Country of Celesark as the foreign observer for the trial to choose their next Grand Saintess! Chelsea heads north to the Holy Country with her maids and Micah, for tea parties and adventure!
Download or read book Reading Portland written by John Trombold and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. This single volume gives voice to women and men; the colonizers and the colonized; white, Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Indian storytellers; and lower, middle, and upper classes. In his introduction, John Trombold considers the history of writing about a place that has nourished a provocative and errant literary tradition for over 150 years. In the preface, Peter Donahue considers the influence of region--particularly Portland's urbanity and its hybrid population--on literature. Included here are the voices of Carl Abbott, Kathryn Hall Bogle, Beverly Cleary, Robin Cody, Lawson Fusao Inada, Rudyard Kipling, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joaquin Miller, Sandy Polishuk, Gary Snyder, Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Woody, and many more.
Download or read book On Scattered Shores written by Yaja and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sea is a harsh mistress, forever testing the worthiness of those she holds close to her breast lest they become complacent and fall in her estimation. The men who hear that calling and respond to it seldom sway from it, for soon it is in their blood; but for the unfortunate few that err in their choice, she is quick to condemn them to the backwaters of seafaring history. On Scattered Shores is a collection of six sea stories. Each story is different, and together, they sketch the many moods and colours of a life at sea. From the perils of the unpredictable elements that test one’s courage and character, to the battles within, of loneliness and despair. From fleeting love and its lasting memories, to love betrayed and its terrible consequences. Of mystical bonds that can only happen when man is one with the universe, far removed from the clutter of life ashore, these stories tell of the men who sail these ships, and the unique world they inhabit. Sail away on a voyage of romance and adventure, and feel the taste of salt and the whip of the wind in each of these tales.
Book Synopsis I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 1 (light novel) by : Syuichi Tsukishima
Download or read book I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 1 (light novel) written by Syuichi Tsukishima and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BUTTON MASH TO VICTORY On the verge of flunking out of Grand Swordcraft Academy due to his total lack of talent, Allen Rodol’s life goes from bad to worse when the class prodigy challenges him to a duel where it’s win or face expulsion. However, the night before his hopeless bout, a mysterious hermit grants Allen a button that will give him one hundred million years to train in an alternate reality when pressed. Allen not only gladly accepts the offer but also goes back for seconds, thirds, tenths even! With over a billion years of straight practice under his belt, the world is about to see what the “Reject Swordsman” can really do!
