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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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, 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.