Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1997
ISBN 10: 477001922X ISBN 13: 9784770019226
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American. On leave after the death of his wife and a job-related injury, a police inspector returns to the force when his banker nephew's fiance+a7e suddenly vanishes, and his investigation into her disappearance reveals troubling puzzles about the woman and her background.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1974
ISBN 10: 0870112317 ISBN 13: 9780870112317
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Meat and vegetable ingredients familiar to Westerners are used in these basic recipes from China's most densely populated province.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995
ISBN 10: 156836072X ISBN 13: 9781568360720
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Rutgers professor Tiger explores the human trait of believing in hope and improvement.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1982
ISBN 10: 087011526X ISBN 13: 9780870115264
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Shows how to adapt aspects of Japanese home design: formal entranceways, alcoves, screens, partitions, and diffuse lighting, into Western style homes.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995
ISBN 10: 1568360673 ISBN 13: 9781568360676
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Conventional wisdom suggests that aesthetic experiences - those moments when the senses come to life - are important only after more basic needs have been met. In this inspiring wealth of provocative ideas, Yi-Fu Tuan demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential parts of life and society. The aesthetic is shown to be not merely one aspect of culture but its central core - both its driving force and its ultimate goal. Beginning with the individual and the physical world, the author's exploration progresses from the simple to the complex. Tuan starts by examining the building blocks of aesthetic experience - sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste - and gradually expands his analysis to include the most elaborate of human constructs, including art, architecture, literature, philosophy, music, and landscape. This leads him to the realm of politics, where he grapples with the fundamental question of the relationship between goodness and beauty, and of how the aesthetic can become a moral force within society. To guide the reader along this journey, the author describes how the aesthetic operates in four widely disparate Australian aboriginal, Chinese, medieval European, and modern American. Yi-Fu Tuan, one of our most influential and original thinkers, brilliantly conveys the profound fascination of multisensory reality, and in so doing enables us to make connections among even the most diffuse elements of our lives. While Tuan does not ignore human folly, Passing Strange and Wonderful is a celebration of the world around us, our experiences, and our creations.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1992
ISBN 10: 4770016506 ISBN 13: 9784770016508
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An account of the life and the travels of the first man known to have reached Europe describes the customs, cultures, and places Rabban Sauma encountered as he crossed two continents, witnessing volcano eruptions and the conversations of kings.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1991
ISBN 10: 4770015518 ISBN 13: 9784770015518
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Presents the true story of Yoshima Ishikawa, a Japanese-American who immigrated as a teenager to California in 1965, searching for the American Dream.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1994
ISBN 10: 1568360452 ISBN 13: 9781568360454
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Softcover. Condition: used. In the bestselling tradition of A Brief History of Time, a dazzling account of the age-old quest to unravel the riddle of the universe, which eludes us ever more craftily the closer we think we've come to it--or as the Jewish proverb says, "Man thinks, God laughs".
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1991
ISBN 10: 0870119532 ISBN 13: 9780870119538
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Aims to help expand vocabulary and improve reading comprehension by modifying the reader's existing lexicon. The Power Japanese series presents a selection of guides to difficult or confusing aspects of the Japanese language. The student can find a quick reference to particles, a guide to the myriad levels of politeness, books of idioms, vocabulary builders, emotive expressions and turns of speech - all with natural examples.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1992
ISBN 10: 477001659X ISBN 13: 9784770016591
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. In 1869 a half-blind Greek-Irish teenager named Lafcadio Hearn came to Cincinnati, Ohio, and by the age of twenty-four became the city's most famous newspaper reporter on the strength of his lurid crime stories and bizarre explorations of the city's dark underside.Fired in 1877 for his brief marriage to a black woman, he wandered from New Orleans to New York to the Caribbean before finally settling in Japan where, in a unique act of self-transformation, he became a Japanese patriot and patriarch.Full of excerpts from Hearn's writing, Jonathan Cott's insightful portrayal of an extraordinary life recovers for a Western audience a unique figure of the nineteenth century.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1994
ISBN 10: 1568360541 ISBN 13: 9781568360546
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An insightful and recondite chronicle of a journey through Chinese Turkestan retracing the ancient routes that were once essential to world trade offers a rich and revealing portrait of one of the world's most unfamiliar and fascinating areas. Reprint.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1990
ISBN 10: 0870119834 ISBN 13: 9780870119835
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Hardcover. Condition: used. First Edition. In this strikingly beautiful and revolutionary work, Toshiro Kawase introduces a fresh approach to flower arrangement, demonstrating through breathtaking color photographs his universally appealing style of bringing nature into home and heart.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1991
ISBN 10: 4770015321 ISBN 13: 9784770015327
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. English (translation)Original Japanese.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1988
ISBN 10: 0870119028 ISBN 13: 9780870119026
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This work is an exploration of the role of the individual in Japan and Japanese concepts of self-awareness, communication and relationships.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1992
ISBN 10: 4770015399 ISBN 13: 9784770015396
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Yonekawa, Akihiko.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1974
ISBN 10: 0870112228 ISBN 13: 9780870112225
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Softcover. Condition: used. First Edition. Japanese.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1984
ISBN 10: 0870116533 ISBN 13: 9780870116537
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Hardcover. Condition: used. First Edition. This illustrated guide covers all the reader needs to know about Japan's national drink. The text explains the history, production, customs, utensils and language of sake, and identifies the best brands and the tastiest side dishes.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1985
ISBN 10: 0870116983 ISBN 13: 9780870116988
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. Book by O'Neill, P. G.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1989
ISBN 10: 0870118919 ISBN 13: 9780870118913
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. <b> A Stranger in Tibet</b><p> To reach the "forbidden city" of Lhasa was the dream of generations of Western explorers. But until 1900 when Kawaguchi Ekai, a young Zen monk, donned a disguise and walked all the way there, few foreigners had ever done so. Clinging staunchly to his chastity; leaving a trail of broken hearts across the Himalayas; oppressed by the cultural impossibility of bathing, yet frequently almost drowned in river crossings; often lost and on the verge of starving or freezing to death; robbed by highwaymen, and taken for a spy; speaking fluently the language of a people he preferred not to understand. This brave, bigoted, and enterprising traveler was eventually to cross Tibet from west to east, study in one of the country's greatest monasteries, and keep his secret there for over a year.<p> His first full length biography is based on memories and the information gathered by the author.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1998
ISBN 10: 4770021259 ISBN 13: 9784770021250
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Revised, Subsequent. The architecture, utensils, etiquette, and physical movements associated with the ritual are described in light of the Japanese people's aesthetic traditions and Zen philosophies.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1991
ISBN 10: 4770015372 ISBN 13: 9784770015372
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 0. A seven-year-old child experiences the American invasion of Okinawa.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870113623 ISBN 13: 9780870113628
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Softcover. Condition: used. First Paperback Edition. Tells the story of a young man's passage through a sequence of disturbing experiences to a hard-worn truce with the destructive forces within himself.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1981
ISBN 10: 087011395X ISBN 13: 9780870113956
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Hardcover. Condition: used. First Edition. The art of Japan is at once an expression of the relative unity of Far Eastern culture and a sophisticated metamorphosis of native aesthetic canons that has produced an international style as distinctive as the Rococo and the Islamic. In a brilliant crystallization of the essence of Japanese design, Dr. Sherman Lee, one of the foremost authorities in the field, recalls the supremacy of Chinese civilization in Asian culture, and reveals, first, how the Far Eastern situation differed from that of the Western world, and then, in light of this, how the Japanese came to assert their own aesthetic inclinations. Dr. Lee's lucid analysis, substantiated by the finest examples of Japanese art (32 color plates, 800 black-and-white plates, including 17 pages of Japanese mon, or family crests), offers a stimulating discussion of how Japanese art differs from Chinese, going beyond mere generalities to the quintessence of Japanese aesthetic design.According to Dr. Lee, the Japanese eye delights in asymmetry, intuitive placement, subtle shades and combinations of colors, as compared to the Chinese proclivity toward balance, rational sequence, and purity and separation of colors. The vocabulary of Japanese design is distinguished by the dominance of asymmetric composition, the dominance of the material over the carefully reticent hand of the artist, the dominance of pattern and of motif, often traditional and with literary overtones.More than an essay about art divorced from culture, Dr. Lee's sensitive introductory text acknowledges the role of the natural and social environment upon the Japanese psyche. His chronological treatment examines the maturation of a sumptuous decorative style that finds its antecedents in Yamato-e of the Fujiwara Period (897-1185). Enhanced by the tea taste of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615), this culminated in the splendid Rimpa style which today still colors the aesthetic sense of modern Japanese. In addition, he discusses the place of ukiyo-e and garden art to present a full consideration of the distinctive vocabulary and singular spirit of Japanese design.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1998
ISBN 10: 4889960414 ISBN 13: 9784889960419
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Fuse, Tomoko.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995
ISBN 10: 4770018908 ISBN 13: 9784770018908
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Kodansha International.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1992
ISBN 10: 4770016980 ISBN 13: 9784770016980
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The Acoma pueblo is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in North America. This Indian community, which probably dates back over a millennium, was home to one of America's most talented and innovative potters-Lucy M. Lewis (d. 1992).<br /><br /><p><br /><br />Born around the turn of the century, Lewis rose from humble origins to become one of the most important craftspersons of this century. As mother, matriarch, and artist, she made a monumental statement about her own society. She absorbed the work of her Indian ancestors, and from their ancient designs fashioned a modern sensibility that brought Indian pottery into the twentieth century.<br /><br /></p><p><br /><br />She began making pots at an early age, teaching herself from shards she found around her home. With age, practice, and a keen eye came perfection, and eventually admirers. Her pieces are now in the collections of prominent museums in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, as well as throughout the Southwest.<br /><br /></p><p><br /><br />Susan Peterson's intimate biography is a major accomplishment. It captures the essence of this inspirational woman with candor and affection. Over 220 color plates (and 120 black-and-white photos) convey the life and work of Lucy and her family. Lucy M. Lewis: American Indian Potter not only offers insights into the sources and milieu of Lewis' vast talent, but documents the achievements of one of America's greatest native craftswomen.</p>
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1998
ISBN 10: 1568362463 ISBN 13: 9781568362465
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. During the final year of the Tokugawa regime, Yoshinobu overhauls the military system, reorganizes civil administration, and expands foreign intercourse with the aim of creating a unified Japan.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1991
ISBN 10: 4770009569 ISBN 13: 9784770009562
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Book by Keene, Donald.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1998
ISBN 10: 156836217X ISBN 13: 9781568362175
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Hardcover. Condition: used. First Edition. Tokugawa Yoshinobu, born in 1837, came to power thirty years later as the fifteenth successor to the Tokugawa shogunate. Though his ancestral claim and his will to become a shogun were never as powerful as those of his enemies, he far outclassed them. Coming to power just as the Tokugawa regime was suffering the worst military defeat in its history, Yoshinobu strongly suspected that the rule of the Tokugawa -- the third and longest lived of Japan's three warrior governments -- was swiftly becoming an anachronism. During a year of frenetic activity, he overhauled the military systems, reorganized the civil administration, promoted industrial development, and expanded foreign intercourse, all with the farsighted aim of creating a unified Japan, Pro-imperial interests, alarmed by these reforms, moved against him, precipitating the Boshin Civil War and the final defeat of the shogunal armies. To the surprise of his enemies, he capitulated, retiring to Mito to live quietly for the rest of his life studying the new art of photography. 1200.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995
ISBN 10: 4770020201 ISBN 13: 9784770020208
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Book by Ohno, Noriko.