Introduction to Japanese Culture, Paperback

Featuring full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, this text is a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture. The richness of Japan's hist...

Reducere. Essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. Benedict s World War ...

Reducere. For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. Th...

An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto...

Reducere. Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization is the only concise overview of Japan's phenomenal impact on world pop culture available in English. Sur...

Reducere. The decade of the 1960s encompassed a "New Wave" of films whose makers were rebels, challenging cinematic traditions and the culture at large. The ...

Reducere. Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence ...

Reducere. Japanese Fairy Tales is the first book writtten by Yei Theodora Ozaki. It is a delightful introduction to the culture of Japan. Originally publishe...

While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Bront 's novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nea...

Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns uses hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information on colors, fabrics and embellishme...

Reducere. "Transcending the narrow confines of its title, presents a unified concept of life, art and nature. Along the way exploring topics related to tea a...

The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has a rich six-hundred-year history and has had a huge influence on Japanese culture and such Western artists as E...

Reducere. Edogawa Rampo (pseudonym of Hirai Taro, 1894-1965) is the acknowledged grand master of Japan's golden age of crime and mystery fiction. He is also ...

Tokyo lives up to its reputation as a modern metropolis and, as this book shows, it is also one of the most exciting and diverse places on the plan...

Reducere. Table of Contents Introduction to Cherries Introduction Growing Cherries Budding Choosing the Right Plants Best Varieties of Cherries Maintenance o...

Reducere. Written by the foremost authority of the era on Oriental archeology and art, this extremely influential book offers a brief but concise introductio...

From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street the...

Anime: A Critical Introduction maps the genres that have thrived within Japanese animation culture, and shows how a wide range of commentators have...