Taro: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan, Paperback - Blue Spruell

Reducere. Author Blue Spruell reimagines TARO - Legendary Boy Samurai - in an historical fantasy adventure of warlords, swords, and magical beasts from old J...

Reducere. Winner of a Caldecott Honor A shy Japanese boy having difficulty adjusting to school is misjudged by his classmates. Chibi has been an outcast sinc...

Reducere. A shy mountain boy in Japan leaves his home at dawn and returns at sunset to go to the village school. Pictures and text of moving and harmonious s...

Reducere. After fleeing a disastrous teaching job (and a bad gambling habit) in Boston, Lindsey starts teaching English in Hime, a small fishing town in Japa...

Reducere. DescriptionRecollections of Japan is a personal account of living in Tokugawa Japan in the beginning of the nineteenth century, from a European's p...

The Spirit of Japan (1916) is a speech by Rabindranath Tagore. Published after he received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Spirit of Japan ...

Bold, iconic designs have been used to symbolize family names in Japan from the time of the court nobles in the twelfth century. The sense of "fami...

Reducere. In shops, shrines, homes and gardens throughout Japan, at noisy festivals and in the most serene teahouses, you are likely to encounter the plump, ...

Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, BostonAuthor(s): Anne Nishimura (Curator of Japanese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) MorseIllustration(s): ...

Reducere. Description Once brewed throughout Asia, sake has come to be inextricably linked with Japanese culture, tradition and society. In Sake and the wine...

Reducere. Japan boasts the second largest economy in the world and almost two thousand years of history. Yet, its first modern constitution, the Meiji Consti...

Experience the flavour of Japan by using the delicious recipes in this book! As well as being able to make food such as soba noodle soup and vegeta...

The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English. The classic Japanese plays can be read for their great literary me...

Reducere. The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan, Paperback

Japan's impact on the modern world has been enormous. It occupies just one 300th of the planet's land area, yet came to wield one sixth of the worl...

Reducere. "Highly recommended." -- Library Journal. One of the most comprehensive handbooks available on Kabuki theatre provides readers with all the informa...

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To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and wh...

In Kansai Cool anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Christal Whelan offers profound insights in the only collection of essays to focus on Kansai, J...

Reducere. Bushido: The Soul of Japan is, along with the classic text Hagakure by Tsunetomo Yamamoto (1659-1719), a study of the way of the samurai. A best-se...

Reducere. DescriptionA century ago, when Japan was transforming itself from an isolated feudal society into a modern nation, a Japanese educator queried abou...

An internationally-renowned cartoonist and reluctant war vet details Japan's involvement in World War II. Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan conti...

A sweeping yet intimate portrait of World War II s legacy in Japan.Publisher: Drawn and QuarterlyAuthor(s): Shigeru MizukiIllustration(s): Black-an...

The final, Eisner Award-winning chapter of a legendary cartoonist s history of Japan.Publisher: Drawn and QuarterlyAuthor(s): Shigeru MizukiIllustr...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Grace LaveryIllustration(s): 14 b/w illus.Number of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155...

Reducere. In Japanese, the word for "foreign country" means "outnation." But to many Americans and Japanese, it is Japan itself, despite its increasing influ...

Reducere. In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled represe...

Reducere. Kamikaze: A Novel of the Mongol Invasions of Japan is an action-packed historical romance set against Kublai Khan's bloody thirteenth-century attem...

Reducere. Evolved amid the incessant warfare of medieval Japan, bujutsu, or "martial arts, " provided the warrior with the technical and psychological traini...

Reducere. Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between Ame...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Danny ChaplinJapan's Sengoku jidai ('Warring States Period') was a time of crisis and upheaval, a chaotic epoch when the re...

DescriptionThe Shinto faith fascinates and mystifies the entire world. Shinto is Japanese for

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Reducere. "A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life." --The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and...

Publisher: Image ComicsAuthor(s): Tri VuongNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 227 x 153 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softbackRede...

Reducere. "I couldn't help laughing aloud a few times reading Tony's stories of his experiences in Japan, mirroring so well our lives as missionaries in this...

Reducere. The rescue of a literary manuscript results in a war of words over the interpretation of 107 haiku about New York's Central Park. In the battle of ...

These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimatel...

Reducere. This book examines the haunting, sad, and lively depths of the Japanese soul by interpreting some of major themes in fairy tales. A Japanese Jungia...

In the town of Superopolis, everyone has a superpower. Everyone, that is, except Ordinary Boy. But things are not so super in Superopolis these day...