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Book Synopsis The Kwaidan of the Lady of Tamiya by : James S. De Banneville
Download or read book The Kwaidan of the Lady of Tamiya written by James S. De Banneville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Kwaidan are what Lafcadio Hearn calls 'stories and studies of strange things' - eerie tales which convey the enduring mystery of traditional Japanese culture and the world of the samurai. In this volume, de Benneville's rendition of the Yotsuya Kwaidan of Shunkintei Ryuo paints a picture of life in the capital city of Edo among the samurai of the highest class, jostling for power at the court of the Shogun. At the heart of the story is the Lady of Tamiya, a daughter of the samurai who is sold by her brutal husband into the floating world of brothels, from which she escapes only in death. Thereafter, the Lady is avenged as mis-forutune relentlessly overtakes all who betrayed her, and she is still remembered today in a Tokyo shrine popular with women who seek her protection. More than any history, kwaidan reveal the inner morality of the samurai code.
Book Synopsis The Kwaidan of the Lady of Tamiya by : James S. De Banneville
Download or read book The Kwaidan of the Lady of Tamiya written by James S. De Banneville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Kwaidan are what Lafcadio Hearn calls 'stories and studies of strange things' - eerie tales which convey the enduring mystery of traditional Japanese culture and the world of the samurai. In this volume, de Benneville's rendition of the Yotsuya Kwaidan of Shunkintei Ryuo paints a picture of life in the capital city of Edo among the samurai of the highest class, jostling for power at the court of the Shogun. At the heart of the story is the Lady of Tamiya, a daughter of the samurai who is sold by her brutal husband into the floating world of brothels, from which she escapes only in death. Thereafter, the Lady is avenged as mis-forutune relentlessly overtakes all who betrayed her, and she is still remembered today in a Tokyo shrine popular with women who seek her protection. More than any history, kwaidan reveal the inner morality of the samurai code.
Book Synopsis The Yotsuya Kwaidan by : James Seguin De Benneville
Download or read book The Yotsuya Kwaidan written by James Seguin De Benneville and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Geisha written by Marion Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the challenges and experiences of an American woman who arrived in 1950's Japan. It is a timeless example of how to live abroad successfully in an increasingly global world, as well as fascinating account of everyday life in Japan in the immediate post-war years. .
Download or read book Japanese Nation written by Nitobé Inazo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important document in the history of Japanese-American relations. In 2002, President Bush spoke of the great Japanese scholar and statesman Inazo Nitobe, who envisioned a future of friendship between the two nations. This book is one of the means by which Nitobe sought to bridge the Pacific. Writing before World War I, he presents a detailed account of Japan and the Japanese in terms easily understandable to western readers, emphasising points of similarity rather than difference, often citing the work of western historians and philosophers in order to explain Japanese practices, always searching for common aims and goals. He deals with the effect of the past on the present, national characteristics, religious beliefs, morals and moral ideals, education, economic conditions, Japan as coloniser, relations between the United States and Japan, and America’s influence in the Far East, concluding with the hope that wherever else war may break out, lasting peace would reign over the Pacific. In this he was disappointed, but the fact that Nitobe is cited today as the architect of Japanese-American friendship makes this volume essential reading for the historian.
Book Synopsis Art Of Japanese Gardens by : Loraine E. Kuck
Download or read book Art Of Japanese Gardens written by Loraine E. Kuck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flowering of Far Eastern culture and philosophy as seen through the remarkable gardens they gave rise to. This classic work was one of the first to reveal the full meaning and symbolism of the gardens of China and Japan, and to treat them as serious works of art and material culture, rather than as quaint and pretty plantings. In spirit, the art of these gardens is akin to landscape painting; in form it is close to sculpture. Yet it is really quite different, a unique art based upon the choice and arrangement of natural materials in the creation of a scene that has the power to transform and inspire the viewer and gardener. Loraine E. Kuck begins her study with the naturalistic gardens of early China, progressing on to the gardens of Japan. She relates the development of gardens to the personalities who made them, to the historical background, to Eastern religion and philosophy, to the political events which shaped the culture of each period, to the arts in general and to painting, architecture and the tea ceremony in particular. Above all, her account brings alive a world in which mosses hold the warm promise of spring and hope in their velvet depths; in which the juxtaposition of pools and rocks invite meditation; where sunny slopes convey the calm of centuries and in which flowering cherry trees are viewed by moonlight, with tall lanterns throwing soft light on masses of flowers seen against the starry darkness of the sky. The work includes chapters on Heian gardens, the gardens of the Fujiwara period, the princely gardens of Tokugawa times and Zen landscapes, along with sixty-four pages of illustrations, including many rare photographs. Practical and inspirational, no other work so perfectly captures the spirituality, beauty and complex simplicity of these gardens that link heaven and earth.
Book Synopsis Traveller From Tokyo by : John Morris
Download or read book Traveller From Tokyo written by John Morris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the author's typically charming and self-effacing style, this book offers readers a fascinating insight into Japan and Japanese life at the eve of its fateful entry into the Second World War. The author tells of his struggle to teach English in a Japanese university, as well as his daily encounters with Japanese institutions and customs. Never dry or pedantic, the work is a balanced and intriguing portrait of political and social life in 1940s Japan.
Book Synopsis Religion Of The Samurai by : Kaiten Nukariya
Download or read book Religion Of The Samurai written by Kaiten Nukariya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. Zen Buddism was first introduced in Japan as the faith for the Samurai or the military class and moulded the characters of many distinguished soldiers and statesmen. The object of this work is show to how the Mahavanistic views of life and the world differ markedly from those of the Theravada, and this to explain how the religion of Buddha has adapted itself to its environment in the Far East. To this end, the author undertakes a close study of the Zen sect, selecting this group because of the great influence it has had on Japanese life and also because of the unique position it holds among the established religious systems of the world.
Book Synopsis In Far Japan: Glympses by : Frank H. Hedges
Download or read book In Far Japan: Glympses written by Frank H. Hedges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006. These unique sketches of Japan and Japanese life were written by Frank Hughes. foreign correspondent of the London Times, Christian Science Monitor and the Washington Post. Shrines, mountains, traditional drums, misty rains and the shrill wailing of Shinto music come to life in Hedges' brief, lyrical descriptions and lovers of Japan are sure to be overwhelmed by memory.
Book Synopsis Studies In Shinto & Shrines by : R. A. B. Ponsonby-Fane
Download or read book Studies In Shinto & Shrines written by R. A. B. Ponsonby-Fane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Written by one of the leading scholars on Japanese culture, this focus of this collection of papers centres on Shinto rites and festivals and shrine buildings. Among the topics covered are the imperial family and Shinto, the three great emperors, Yatagarasu, Yasoshima-No-Matsuri and Kamo Gejo Ryosha. Eleven shrines are discussed in detail, including Tatsuta Jinja, Aso Jinja and Suminoe-No-Okami. Readers will enjoy the book's fascinating subject matter, clear presentation and entertaining style.
Book Synopsis Japanese Names and How To Read Them by : Albert J. Koop
Download or read book Japanese Names and How To Read Them written by Albert J. Koop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. This concise and comprehensive guide to the reading and interpretation of Japanese proper names, dates and other formal expressions was first published in 1923. Intended for the use of art collectors and students who wish to find the identity of signatures in Japanese ideographs, the book offers instructions on counting the strokes of a character, analysing sounds, predicting consonantal and vowel changes, reading dates, and analysing signatures. Also included are listings of Emperors, personages, and provinces, an index of names, and a dictionary of characters used in names.
Download or read book Ancient Japanese Rituals written by Satow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. What is Shinto? is the key question asked by all who seek to understand Japan and the Japanese, answered in this volume by Sir Ernest Satow, the great British scholar and diplomat. Shinto is the unique and little-known religious beliefs that flourished in Japan before the introduction of Buddhism and Confucianism, but there are many versions - which is the pure form? Satow begins with a detailed study of core Shinto rituals as revealed in ancient texts, which embody the deepest and oldest traditions of Shinto belief in divinity, national destiny and, above all, Japan's special favored status as 'the country of the gods', beliefs that endure today behind the facade of Japan Inc. Shinto rites, incantations, sacred objects and symbols are described meticulously, with illustrations and translations by Karl Florenz. Satow then describes how the Ancient Way of Shinto survived centuries of foreign influence to be revived during the Meiji era, when it became the driving force behind the transformation of Japan into a world power. Unrivalled for its scholarship and elegance, this is a classic in Japanese studies.
Book Synopsis Japanese Buddhism by : Charles Eliot
Download or read book Japanese Buddhism written by Charles Eliot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. Written as a companion to Eliot's 3-volume Hinduism and Buddhism, this title begins with a brief survey of Buddhism as practiced in India and China before delving deep into the history of Buddhism in Japan. It traces the evolution of the Buddhist movement in Japan from its 'official' introduction in AD 552, through the Nara, Heian and Tokugawa periods, detailing the rises of the various Buddhist sects in Japan, including Nichiren and Zen. Thoroughly researched and well-written, it was the last work published by Eliot, one of the great scholars of Eastern religion and philosophy at the time.
Book Synopsis Learning the Sacred Way Of the Emperor by : Yukata Hibino
Download or read book Learning the Sacred Way Of the Emperor written by Yukata Hibino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. This book is by no means an abstract volume addressed to the scholarly reader. It is concerned throughout with the conceptions and ideals of the Japanese people in the early part of the twentieth century, whose clear comprehension and practice by all members of the community is essential for the healthy development of the national life. No other nation in history has passed through such radical changes so successfully in such a short period of time. Anyone interested in discovering the basis of Japan's phenomenal success will find this volume interesting.
Book Synopsis The Honorable Picnic by : Thomas Raucat
Download or read book The Honorable Picnic written by Thomas Raucat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 1924, this has been called the best novel ever written abo Penned in 1924, this has been called the best novel ever written about Japan, and its charm remains undiminished. The French author, a pilot during World War I, was sent to Japan as a flying instructor after the war, and this book is a fictionalised account with line drawings of the year he spent
Book Synopsis In the Bamboo Lands of Japan by : Katharine Schuyler Baxter
Download or read book In the Bamboo Lands of Japan written by Katharine Schuyler Baxter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well written and keenly observed, this interesting work on Japan at the turn of the nineteenth century is the work of a Canadian writer of some means and great ability. It covers the customs, the arts and manufactures, industries, ancestor worship, everyday people like farmers and ship keepers in very absorbing detail. The photographs by the author are very informative.
Book Synopsis Lafcadio Hearn's Gleanings in Buddha-fields by : Lafcadio Hearn
Download or read book Lafcadio Hearn's Gleanings in Buddha-fields written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
