New York: Dover Publications, 2006. — 142 p. Introduction. Mon construction. Animal Mon. Hokusai as designer. Rattern construction. Acknowledgements. New materials, like the enormous range of multi-purpose plastics, and new techniques in handling materials long known to us, such as the use, for example, of engraved glass paels as an element in construction décor have presented...
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017. — 288 p. ; 14 b&w illus. The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th...
Routledge, 2003. — 144 p. For more than a millennium, the fox has been a ubiquitous figure at the margins of the Japanese collective imagination. In the writings of the nobility and the motifs of popular literature, the fox is known as a shapeshifter, able to assume various forms in order to deceive others. Focusing on recurring themes of transformation and duplicity in...
Routledge, 2001. — 288 p. — (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies). Globalizing Japan explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on an everyday basis. Both consciously and unconsciously, we regularly come into contact with Japan's industrial and cultural globalization, from...
Boston, Mass: Houghton-Mifflin Trade and Reference, 1946. — 137 p. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture is a 1946 study of Japan by American anthropologist Ruth Benedict. It was written at the invitation of the U.S. Office of War Information, in order to understand and predict the behavior of the Japanese in World War II by reference to a series of...
Tuttle, 2013. — 144 p. — ISBN: 978-9625937823. Traditional Japanese design imbues objects with a sense of history and artistry that easily reaches across cultural boundaries. In Things Japanese: Everyday Objects of Extraordinary Beauty and Significance, author Nicholas Bornoff and photographer Michael Freeman examine over 60 traditional objects that are uniquely Japanese,...
Translated from French by Anne Dickerson. — London, U.K.: eLand Publishing, 2019. — 205 p. Author of the classic travelogue “The Way of the World,” Nicolas Bouvier was also a photographer, whose grainy images add texture to this series of essays published in 1989. A travel writer who used the genre as a medium for political and cultural inquiry, Bouvier was both investigative...
Routledge, 2011. - 240 p. ISBN10: 0415673674, 0415413141 This book examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan, investigating the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions are ascribed public recognition and political significance. Through detailed ethnographic and historical case studies, it analyses the social, economic, and even global political...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 122 p. The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century. Art, Ivory and the...
Routledge, 1992. — 209 p. — (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies). The numerical paradox Numbers in the written and spoken language Alternative number systems The culture of numbers What's in a Japanese name? Fortune-telling Time The spatial world of numbers The Japanese abacus Games : ancient and modern The ecology of numbers : past and present
Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — 263 p. The bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990s shook the very foundation of the post-war economic 'miracle' and marked the beginning of a gradual shift in the environmental consciousness of the Japanese. Yet, it by no means removed consumption from the pivotal position it occupied within Japanese society. Consuming Life in...
Tuttle Publishing, 2016. — 99 p. — ISBN10: 4805311630. — ISBN13: 978-4805311639 Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a detailed and thoroughly researched journey through Japan's cultural history. This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy...
Tuttle, 2002. — vii, 204 p. — ISBN: 0-8048-3295-1. In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored: aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon others' benevolence), amakudari (the...
New York, NY : Broadway Books, 2001. — 304 p. Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, by geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini's Madama Butterfly to Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. The reality of the geisha's existence, though, whether today or in...
New York, NY : Broadway Books, 2001. — 304 p. Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, by geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini's Madama Butterfly to Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. The reality of the geisha's existence, though, whether today or in...
ARCH 232. - Spring 2011. - Dumas / Wortham - Galvin. - 13 p. (In English) Spiritual Cleansing Guest Entrance Utensils Wabi-Sabi Tea House Residential Hot New Tea House The Future
Routledge, 2012. — 216 p. — (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies). Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical...
New York: Weatherhill, 1974. Photographs of tearoom, ancient pottery, and garden architecture illustrate an account of the traditions, history, religious and social significance, and charm of the tea ceremony.
University of Hawai‘i Press, 1997. - 573 p. ISBN: 0824818822 "No institution did more to create a modern citizenry than the newspaper press of the Meiji period (1868-1912). Here was a collection of highly diverse, private voices that provided increasing numbers of readers - many millions by the end of the period - with both its fresh picture of the world and a changing sense of...
Bonanza Books — 1963 — 128 p. — ISBN10: 111144868X / ISBN13: 978-1111448684 Basic elements of the Japanese house, and all the variations, showing how they can be adapted for American use.
Routledge, n.d. — 131 p. Japanese Cuisine and Identity in Contemporary Japan. Women and Work in Modern Japan. What is the Rashomon Effect? Religion as Moral Infrastructure. Towards a New Literary Trend. Making Sense of the Lost Decades.
Tuttle Publishing, 2003. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 0804834822 / ISBN13: 978-0804834827. Developed out of the aesthetic philosophy of cha-no-yu (the tea ceremony) in fifteenth-century Japan, wabi sabi is an aesthetic that finds beauty in things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to less is more, and sabi, which means attentive...
2nd ed. — Museyon, 2018. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1940842226 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1938450976 (EPUB), ISBN: 978-1938450983 (epdf). Written by local expert Sumiko Kajiyama, Cool Japan explores the heart of Japanese culture and must-see places from a uniquely Japanese perspective. First, visit Kyoto, where you will discover 1,000 years of history, from the ancient love story the...
Museyon, 2013. — 288 p. —ISBN: 0984633456 Cool Japan: A Guide to Tokyo, Kyoto, Tohoku and Japanese Culture Past and Present. Explore the heart of Japanese culture with this three-part travel guide. First, visit Kyoto, where you will discover one thousand years of history from the ancient love story the Tale of Genji to the traditional tea ceremony. Then head to Tokyo to...
LA ALAMEDA PRESS. - 2004. - 78 p. (In English). Addressed to a western audience, it was originally written in English and is one of the great English Tea classics. Okakura had been taught at a young age to speak English and was proficient at communicating his thoughts to the Western mind. In his book, he discusses such topics as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of...
Lexington, KY : The University Press of Kentucky, 2005. — 416 p., photos, illus, maps. The ancient civilization of Japan, with its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, is also closely associated with all that is new and modern. Looking outward, Japan sees what it has become since Hiroshima: the world's second-largest economy, a source of fury and wonder, a power without arms....
Tuttle Publishing, 1990. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-0804816113. In this best seller, available for the first time in paperback, Amy Sylvester Katoh introduces stunning interior designs that have successfully blended East and West, traditional and modern. With over 300 color photographs by Shin Kimura, this tour of exquisite homes in the Tokyo area offers new ideas for decorating the...
Kobe University joint research: collection of papers. — Venezia : Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2017. — 184 p. — ISBN: 978-88-6969-153-9. This book contains the contributions of the joint-research project conducted by the programme entitled Innovative Japanese Studies through International Cooperation: The Fostering of Young Researchers by Cooperation with Overseas Institutes of...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. — 290 p. Keen Donald. Frog in the Well: Watanabe Kazan and His Images of Japan, 1793-1841. (In English) Dutch Studies in Japan Before 1793. Japan in 1793: Kazan’s Early Years. Genre Paintings and Early Portraits. Travels and Career. The Early 1830s. Foreign Influence and Major Portraits. The Meeting of East and West. Danger from...
Global Oriental, 2013. — 765 p. — ISBN: 9004250093, 978-9004250093 Samuel L. Leiter's Kabuki at the Crossroads: Years of Crisis, 1952-1965 is the first detailed account of Japan's kabuki theatre in the years immediately following the end of the Occupation. It examines every aspect of this traditional theatre as it struggled to maintain its position in a rapidly changing postwar...
Routledge, 1995. — 284 p. — (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies). Japan is one of the most urbanised and industrialised countries in the world. Yet the Japanese continue to practice a variety of religious rituals and ceremonies despite the high-tech, highly regimented nature of Japanese society. Ceremony and Ritual in Japan focuses on the traditional and religious...
Stanford University Press, 1989. — 348 p. This is the fourth volume of a projected five dealing with warrior government and warrior institutions in japan's Kamakura age (1180-1333). In the first three volumes, I examined the emergence of the regime itself (the Kamakura Bakufu), its vassal officers in the field (shugo and jito) , its interaction with the traditional...
Intercultural Press, 2002. — 336 p. In The New Japan, David Matsumoto sets out to describe the anxiety and unrest that plague current Japanese society: the rift between the older and more traditional generations and the younger, more cosmopolitan and Westernized generations. He draws upon a wealth of Japanese and Western sources to compile a thorough exploration of both classic...
Routledge, 1989. — 278 p. — (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies). The page for this book has melded two titles. One is the Robert Matthew book on science fiction, the other, mine (Samuel Coleman's) on Japanese science--the real stuff. I wrote to Amazon some months ago to correct this easily discernible error, but my message was an e-mail so I suppose it went to that...
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2019. — 134 p., illus. The Japan expert and business consultant Rita Menge knows Japan for more than 20 years. In her fourth book about the land of the rising sun, she devotes herself now to numerous hard to understand curiosities and invites you to join in the discussion. Japan fascinates many people. Sushi, Manga and Karaoke are well known...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 246 p. With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ushered in were widespread social and cultural changes. Newspapers, novels, poems, and plays from the Western world were soon adapted and translated...
Routledge, 1995. — 265 p. — (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies). The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature explores the dark side of Japanese Literature where modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface. A close analysis of fantasy, fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivilance felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the...
Milano: Orientai Press, 2003. — 117 p. — Scan, OCR. Apparso per la prima volta nel 1899 in lingua inglese, "Bushidò. L'anima del Giappone" divenne immediatamente un classico, avendo un tale successo da conoscere dieci edizioni nel giro di pochi anni, un'edizione ampliata nel 1905 e traduzioni in quasi tutte le lingue occidentali. Il libro prende spunto dal tentativo di...
Milano: Orientai Press, 2003. — 117 p. Apparso per la prima volta nel 1899 in lingua inglese, "Bushidò. L'anima del Giappone" divenne immediatamente un classico, avendo un tale successo da conoscere dieci edizioni nel giro di pochi anni, un'edizione ampliata nel 1905 e traduzioni in quasi tutte le lingue occidentali. Il libro prende spunto dal tentativo di rispondere alla...
Illustrations by Akiko Saito. — North Clarendon, VT: Tuttle Publishing, 2012. — 192 p., over 40 color illustrations. The unexpected gift of a favored bottle of shiraz from her husband leads to the adventure of a lifetime for Karen Pond and her family — moving from rural Maine to the largest city in the world: Tokyo, Japan. Getting Genki in Japan is a collection of illustrated...
Éditions Tallandier, 2013. — 1346 p. Au Japon, mégapoles surpeuplées, transports saturés, violences des rapports sociaux côtoient créativité, solidarité nationale, perfectionnisme et politesse. Terre de contrastes, l’Archipel s’enorgueillit de marier technologies de pointe et coutumes ancestrales. Témoin alerte et passionnée, Karyn Poupée scrute la vie quotidienne des Nippons...
Tuttle, 2006. — 248 p. The private collections of longtime Japan resident Donald Richie capture the personalities of certain Japanese people–some famous, some unknown–with insight and humor. Richie, who considers himself a foreigner despite living in Japan for over 53 years, is a keen observer of human nature. In Japanese Portraits, he provides an elegant and perceptive vision...
Routledge, 2006. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0415479266 / ISBN13: 978-0415479264. This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization and...
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. — 256 p. Presenting a vivid social history of the new woman who emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, The New Japanese Woman shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle class, and explosion of consumerism resulting from the postwar economic boom,...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0-2311-5280-9. Elegant representations of nature, explicitly the four seasons, fill a wide range of Japanese genres and media — from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and annual observances. Haruo Shirane shows, for the first time, how, when, and why this occurred and explicates the richly...
Bellona, 2010. — 312 s. Photo scan. Japonia fascynuje Europejczyków od setek lat. A mogli ją poznawać głównie dzięki przedmiotom jakie były przesyłane do Europy już w XVI wieku. Poradnik zawiera ponad 140 haseł i oczywiście wybór nie wyczerpuje listy obiektów uważanych za japońskie antyki czy opisów tradycyjnych ceremonii. To jedynie zachęta, by pogłębiać wiedzę i...
Tuttle Publishing, 2014. — 107 p. Featuring full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, this text is a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture. The richness of Japan’s history is renowned worldwide. The heritage of culture that its society has produced and passed on to future generations is one of Japan’s greatest accomplishments. In Introduction to Japanese Culture,...
Stanford University Press, 2013. — 272 p. The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a...
Adelphi, 2014. — 453 p. «Che cos’è lo Zen? … Non capisco rispose un maestro. Che cos’è lo Zen?. Il ventaglio di seta basta a farmi aria rispose un altro maestro. Che cos’è lo Zen?. Lo Zen rispose un terzo maestro». Memore di questo ineffabile scambio (mondō), Daisetz T. Suzuki, massima autorità giapponese nel campo del buddhismo zen, dà avvio nel 1936 a una serie di conferenze...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. — 248 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8047-6197-0 Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early to mid-twentieth century. As a literary and cultural history of love and female identity, Becoming Modern Women...
Tazawa Yutaka, Matsubara Saburo, Okuda Shunsuke, Nagahata Yasunori. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych, Japonia, 1987. — 124 s. Bogato ilustrowana historia kultury japońskie. Według prastarej legendy, Japonia została założona w 660 roku p.n.e. przez Jimmu- uważanego za potomka bogini słońca Ninigi. Także według tradycji, Jimmu miał być pierwszym cesarzem Japonii. Od niego właśnie...
University of Hawaii Press, 2000. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0824821521 / ISBN13: 978-0824821524. For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition includes expanded sections on...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. — ISBN: 0-333-71109-2. This is not a book of jokes. It is about how people make rules about humour: rules about what humour is, what it is not, what it should and should not be, when it should and should not be used, what type of humour is permissible and what type forbidden, what is good and bad about humour, what should be considered funny and what...
Lublin: Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, 2005. — 114 s. Obcy, czyli inny, odmienny, obok, daleki – orientalny. Właściwie Japonia w naszej wyobraźni nadal cieszy się statusem „krainy (Kraina Kwitnącej Wiśni, Kraina Wschodzącego Słońca) raczej niż „kraju. Jest przede wszystkim miejscem mitycznym, a nie geograficznym czy politycznym: odległym i ekscytującym....
White Lion Publishing, 2018. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1781317617 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1781318478 (ebook). With nearly 60 per cent of us living in cities, the mega-city of Tokyo, through centuries of raze and rebuild, is surely the guiding light for how we can live together amicably in an ever-urbanising world. Not only is Japan the mother of all metropolis’ but with two thirds of...
Bridgeway Press, 1966. — 200 p. Okinawa Prefecture (Japanese: 沖縄県 Hepburn: Okinawa-ken?, Okinawan: ウチナーチン Uchinaa-chin) is the southernmost prefecture of Japan. It comprises hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) long. The Ryukyus extend southwest from Kyushu (the southwesternmost of Japan's main four islands) to Taiwan. The Okinawa Prefecture...
Bernardinum, 2012. — 280 s. Japonia - domy o papierowych ścianach i pociągi bez maszynistów. Zielona herbata i sushi. Gejsze i samuraje. Taką Japonię znają ludzie Zachodu, którzy przeglądają kolorowe magazyny wyłożone w poczekalni. Jeśli jednak ktoś pojedzie do Japonii na dłużej, pomieszka wśród tubylców, poobserwuje ich życie codzienne, zobaczy zupełnie inny kraj – Japonię w...
Murata, circa 1750 – 1799 – 10 p. Hana no sodegasa (Floral sleeves as the woven hats) is a kurohon kusazoshi that was published in the second half of the 18th century. Kusazoshi is a type of small book printed by woodblock containing many illustrations. It was popular from the latter half of the 17th century to the end of the 19th century. The pictures sprawl across the pages...
Murata, circa 1750 – 1799 – 10 p. Hana no sodegasa (Floral sleeves as the woven hats) is a kurohon kusazoshi that was published in the second half of the 18th century. Kusazoshi is a type of small book printed by woodblock containing many illustrations. It was popular from the latter half of the 17th century to the end of the 19th century. The pictures sprawl across the pages...
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