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Bollingen Series #0064: Zen and Japanese Culture
by Daisetz T Suzuki  Review As one turns the pages of this delightful book, one seems to catch intimations of how and why certain aspects of the "spirit of Zen' are making themselves felt in America today. . . ....
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Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
by William E Deal Publisher Comments andbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan spans the beginning of the Kamakura period in 1185 through the end of the Edo (Tokugawa) period in 1868. The medieval and early modern eras in Japan were largely shaped by the rise of the warrior class...
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Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan
by Junichi Saga 
Publisher Comments Over 50 reminiscences of pre-modern Japan — illustrations of a way of life that has virtually disappeared. Voted "Best Book of the Year" by Japan's foreign press. This is a collective biography, based on interviews taped by a small-town doctor...
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Japan Its History & Culture 4TH Edition
by W Scott Morton Publisher Comments Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods,Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces inrecent years. Social changes and departures from tradition arebecoming more common in this conservative country. Therevised edition of the...
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Harvard East Asian Monographs #297: Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Oyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan
by Barbara Ambros Publisher Comments Towering over the Kanto Plain, the sacred mountain oyama (literally, andldquo;Big Mountainandrdquo;) has loomed large over the religious landscape of early modern Japan. By the Edo period (1600andndash;1868), the revered peak had undergone a...
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Kyoto: A Cultural History (Cityscapes)
by John Dougill Publisher Comments Kyoto, the ancient former capital of Japan, breathes history and mystery. Its temples, gardens and palaces are testimony to many centuries of aristocratic and religious grandeur. Under the veneer of modernity, the city remains filled with countless...
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A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
by Donald Richie Publisher Comments This provocative book is a tractate-a treatise-on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu,a free-ranging assortment of ideas that "follow the brush"wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn...
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Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha
by Lesley Downer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-280) and index....
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Made in Japan
by Reed Darmon Publisher Comments Made in Japan—these three simple words conjure playful wit, a delight in detail, formal elegance, and graphic energy. Author of Made in China, Reed Darmon has collected hundreds of images of everyday Japanese design and pop culture ephemera from the...
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Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un)
by Andrew Bernstein Publisher Comments What to do with the dead? In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question meant relying on age-old solutions. Funerals, burials, and other mortuary rites had developed over the centuries with the aim of...
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Bushido: The Spirit of the Samurai (Shambhala Library)
by Inazo Nitobe Synopsis There are eight virtues of Bushido, the code of the samurai: justice, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty, and self-control. These virtues comprise the essence of Japanese cultural beliefs, which are still present today. Inazo...
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The Ideals of the East
by Kakuzo Okakura Publisher Comments Written at the turn of the century, when there was a strong tendency of accepting Western culture as enlightenment, the author counter-suggests an appreciation of Japanese sense of beauty, values and way of thinking by introducing the history of Japanese...
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Ideals of the East: The Spirit of Japanese Art
by Kakuzo Okakura Publisher Comments First published in 1883 and written by the foremost authority of the era, this extremely influential book offers a brief but concise introduction to Asian art. One of its major themes, the connections between spirituality and the evolution of Asian art...
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Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family
by Gail Lee Bernstein Publisher Comments In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book...
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Culture of Copying in Japan Critical &
by Rupert Cox Publisher Comments Offering theoretical perspectives through a variety of different historical examples, this book discusses the idea, persistent in the Western imagination, that there is a culture of copying in Japan....
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Family Crests of Japan
by Stone Bridge Press Publisher Comments 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 "family"has changed in modern Japan, but the crests'high-contrast motifs and simple geometries are right at home...
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Getting Wet: Adventures in the Japanese Bath
by Eric Talmadge Publisher Comments Eric Talmadge takes a joyful, first-person plunge into the depths of Japan's bathing culture-joining the millions of Japanese who not only bathe every day, but find it a must to travel the country on a search for the perfect bathing experience. From...
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Okinawa: The History of an Island People
by George Kerr Publisher Comments Few people can point to Okinawa on a map, yet this tiny island sitting between China and Japan was and continues to be one of the most crucial Asian nerve centers in all U.S. strategic defense. Ninety percent of all U.S. military forces in Japan are...
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Geisha
by Liza Crihfiel Dalby Synopsis "Liza Dalby knows more about the subject than I'll ever know, and she writes about it with grace and eloquence."--Arthur Golden, author of "Memoirs of a Geisha...
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Travellers History of Japan 3RD Edition
by Richard Tames Synopsis With everything from bonzai to zazen, this brisk story of a formidable country includes a concise history of its eras, dynasties, cuisine, wars and religions. Includes modern-day government, industry and best sites to see. Maps and line drawings....
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