Urban Culture in Pre-War Japan, Adam Thorin Croft

Автор: Gordon, Andrew
Название: A Modern History of Japan, International Edition
ISBN: 0199930163 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199930166
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The bestselling textbook on Modern Japan, extensively revised to cover Japan`s tumultuous recent history, including the events of 3-11.

Автор: Joyce, James Flynn, Catherine (university Of Calif
Название: Cambridge centenary ulysses: the 1922 text with essays and notes
ISBN: 131651594X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316515945
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book offers accessible support and lively discussions of Joyce`s novel to curious general readers as well as students. Its eighteen essays by leading Joyce scholars on the eighteen chapters of the book are also of interest to scholars.

Автор: Katoh Amy
Название: Otafuku: Joy of Japan
ISBN: 4805313129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9784805313121
Издательство: Tuttle
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Описание: In shops, shrines, homes and gardens throughout Japan, at noisy festivals and in the most serene teahouses, you are likely to encounter the plump, smiling image of Otafuku--a mythic figure from Japan's distant past. With her twinkling eyes and rosy lips, she appears in countless incarnations: on banners, cups and bowls, and in craft, furniture, painting and sculpture. Who is this warm, wonderful lady, whose gentle and calming presence is felt everywhere in Japan?In Otafuku, renowned author Amy Katoh explores in her own inimitable way the colorful world of Otafuku.

Katoh traces Otafuku's roots and folk beginnings, showing her many delightful identities, and providing a magical glimpse into this charming and little-known corner of Japanese culture. With a mixture of poems, photographs, anecdotes and stories, she presents a veritable jewel box of surprises that is sure to enchant readers. Today Otafuku is Japan's most influential female icon and is attributed with having many bestowing powers including health, pleasure, success, and the granting of wishes.

Автор: Strecher Matthew Carl
Название: The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 0816691983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816691982
Издательство: Wiley
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In an "other world" composed of language--it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest--a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami's characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts--people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking machines that traverse the dark psychic underworld of this writer's extraordinary fiction.

Fervently acclaimed worldwide, Murakami's wildly imaginative work in many ways remains a mystery, its worlds within worlds uncharted territory. Finally in this book readers will find a map to the strange realm that grounds virtually every aspect of Murakami's writing. A journey through the enigmatic and baffling innermost mind, a metaphysical dimension where Murakami's most bizarre scenes and characters lurk, The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami exposes the psychological and mythological underpinnings of this other world. Matthew Carl Strecher shows how these considerations color Murakami's depictions of the individual and collective soul, which constantly shift between the tangible and intangible but in this literary landscape are undeniably real.

Through these otherworldly depths The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami also charts the writer's vivid "inner world," whether unconscious or underworld (what some Japanese critics call achiragawa, or "over there"), and its connectivity to language. Strecher covers all of Murakami's work--including his efforts as a literary journalist--and concludes with the first full-length close reading of the writer's newest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

Автор: Stephen Turnbull
Название: Fighting Ships of the Far East (2)
ISBN: 1841764787 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841764788
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: Over the centuries, naval relations between Japan and Korea appear to have alternated between peaceful trade and outright hostility. This work covers East Asia`s most famous warship - the legendary turtle ship, which is described here in full technical detail.

Автор: , Tsuji Nobuo
Название: History of Art in Japan
ISBN: 0231193416 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231193412
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In this book the leading authority on Japanese art history sheds light on how Japan has nurtured distinctive aesthetics, prominent artists, and movements that have achieved global influence and popularity. The History of Art in Japan discusses works ranging from earthenware figurines in 13,000 BCE to manga, anime, and modern subcultures.

Автор: Turnbull Stephen
Название: Samurai Vs Ashigaru: Japan 1543-75
ISBN: 1472832434 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472832436
Издательство: Osprey
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Featuring full-color artwork and expert analysis, this book assesses the status and abilities of two groups of warriors who fought one another during the civil wars of Japan's Age of Warring States.

During the 16th century, Japan underwent a military revolution, characterized by the deployment of large armies, the introduction of firearms, and an eventual shift towards fighting on foot. This study encapsulates these great changes through an exploration of the experience at the ground of three key battles, Uedahara (1548), Mikata ga Hara (1573), and Nagashino (1575), in which two very different types of warrior were pitted against each other. On one side were samurai, the elite aristocratic knights whose status was proclaimed by the possession and use of a horse. On the other side were the foot soldiers known as ashigaru, lower-class warriors who were initially attendants to the samurai but who joined the armies in increasing numbers, attracted by loot and glory. These two types of warrior battled for dominance across the period, changing and adapting their tactics as time went on.

In this title, the development of the conflicts between samurai and ashigaru is explored across three key battles, where highly trained elite mounted samurai of the Takeda clan faced ashigaru at very different stages in their development. The profound and irreversible changes that took place as the conflicts progressed are analyzed in detail, culminating in the eventual incorporation of the ashigaru as the lowest ranks of the samurai class in within the standing army of Tokugawa Japan.

Автор: Oates
Название: Populist Nationalism in Pre-War Japan
ISBN: 0415588693 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415588690
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Nakano has received little attention in works in English on the relevant period, as his approaches to effective power were limited while his career also lacks the violent drama associated with movements resorting to terrorism. This book uses material from the few biographies available in conjunction with some short sketches of Nakano by others.

Автор: Xiong, Victor Cunrui
Название: Capital cities and urban form in pre-modern china
ISBN: 1138543322 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138543324
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Luoyang, situated in present-day Henan province, was one of the great urban centres of pre-Qin and early imperial China, the favoured site for dynastic capitals for almost two millennia. This book, the first in any Western language on the subject, traces the rise and fall of the six different capital cities in the region which served eleven different dynasties from the Western Zhou dynasty, when the first capital city made its appearance in Luoyang, to the great Tang dynasty, when Luoyang experienced a golden age. It examines the political histories of these cities, explores continuity and change in urban form with a particular focus on city layouts and landmark buildings, and discusses the roles of religions, especially Buddhism, and illustrious city residents. Overall the book provides an accessible survey of a broad sweep of premodern Chinese urban history.

Автор: Croft Adam
Название: Urban Culture in Pre-War Japan
ISBN: 0367728613 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367728618
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In 1910s and 1920s Japan there was economic instability, political assassinations, and violent military interventions. This book explores the literature of the period, focusing on the Tatsukawa Library. It discusses how the books helped inculcate the generation that fought for Japan`s emerging empire with admiration for marital violence.

Автор: Hein
Название: Rebuilding Urban Japan After 1945
ISBN: 0333659627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333659625
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Examining the reconstruction of Japan`s bombed cities after World War II, this volume presents five case studies framed by broader essays on the evolution of Japanese planning and architecture, Japan`s urban policies in Manchuria and comparisons between Japanese and European reconstruction.

Автор: Pitelka Morgan
Название: Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan
ISBN: 1316513068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316513064
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
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Описание: Drawing on rich archaeological evidence uncovered at Ichijodani, Pitelka proposes a new understanding of late medieval Japanese society. Exploring the city`s layout, residents` possessions, politics, war, religion, and cultural networks, he argues that provincial centers could be dynamic and vibrant nodes of entrepreneurship and sophistication.