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"Harmony in a Bowl" takes readers on a captivating journey through the rich tapestry of the Japanese tea ceremony. From its ancient origins to its modern echoes, the book explores the historical, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of this revered ritual. Through vivid storytelling and insightful analysis, readers will gain a deep appreciation for the harmony, mindfulness, and timeless beauty encapsulated in the art of tea. Whether a novice or...
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"Threads of Tradition" invites readers to unravel the rich tapestry of the Japanese kimono, exploring its origins, symbolism, and enduring legacy. From its ancient roots to contemporary expressions, the book navigates the cultural, seasonal, and personal dimensions of this iconic garment. Through vivid storytelling and cultural insights, readers gain a deep appreciation for the artistry, symbolism, and cultural significance that define the Japanese...
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"Harmony in Combat" provides a comprehensive exploration of the origins and traditions of Japanese martial arts. From their historical roots to the philosophies that guide practitioners, the book navigates the cultural, ethical, and technical dimensions of these disciplines. Through vivid storytelling and insightful analysis, readers gain a deep appreciation for the rich legacy and enduring principles that define Japanese martial arts as both a physical...
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The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and they express their devotion to the gods through fire walking, tongue-piercing, hanging on hooks, and trance-induced prophesying.
The increasing popularity of these ecstatics poses a challenge not...
6) Mythologie japonaise pour débutants Vivez les légendes passionnantes du Japon et découvrez pas à pas
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D'un point de vue occidental européen, beaucoup de choses liées à l'État du Japon, y compris son histoire, sa culture et ses habitants, semblent non seulement étranges, mais aussi, dans une certaine mesure, inaccessibles et incompréhensibles. Ceux qui ne s'y intéressent pas explicitement n'ont souvent aucun lien avec le Japon. Cela vaut bien sûr aussi pour la mythologie japonaise. Contrairement à la mythologie gréco-romaine ou nordique-germanique,...
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"Petals of Joy" offers readers an enchanting journey into the heart of Hanami, the cherished Japanese tradition of cherry blossom viewing. From the delicate beauty of sakura to the vibrant tapestry of festivals, the book captures the essence of this cultural practice. Through vivid storytelling and cultural insights, readers gain a deep appreciation for the rich history, artistic expressions, and global resonance of Hanami, celebrating the fleeting...
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Tokio es el centro mundial de la cultura otaku. Esta reputación innegable es el resultado de la creatividad constante, tanto en el sector del manga como del anime y videojuego. Cada año en Tokio, estas tres industrias del entretenimiento se esfuerzan por mantener sus leadership organizando varios eventos promocionales, reuniendo a millones de fans de todo el mundo.La cultura otaku es omnipresente en Tokio y la multitud de tiendas especializadas...
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In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals of crushing "superstition" and establishing a socialist society, the story of human evolution was the first lesson in Marxist philosophy offered to...
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In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women-mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army-endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory...
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Coming home from a holiday they never wanted to take Yogan Baum and his wife have to confront a terror you can't smell, can't hear, can't see. Life has its demands however and people near Fukushima Dai-ichi either leave or try to cope with their fear.Extraordinary efforts are made to somehow go back to life as it was before the triple disaster of 3/11. TEPCO lie through their teeth about causes and effects of the meltdowns and the political establishment...
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When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra-someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper-and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of Japan's musical history, however, no such role existed-composition and performance were deeply intertwined. Only when Japan began to embrace Western culture in the late nineteenth century did the role of the composer emerge. In Composing...
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February 1945.
World War Two is entering its sixth year. In Europe, Germany is on its knees, its shattered cities in ruins, battered by clouds of bombers attacking day and night. In the Pacific, the war has been raging for just over three years-the island battles producing rivers of blood-but only a handful of bombs have fallen on Japan.
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the most sophisticated airplane in the world, was the only airplane that...
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Utagawa Hiroshige's two Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, 1852 and 1858, are both a copy act and in themselves innovative artistic endeavors.Katsushika Hokusai published his famous series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji in 1830-1832 and it influenced Hiroshige tremendously to do his own series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series 1852, and 1858, which we deal with here.Hiroshige shifted to the vertical portrait format with novel and interesting...
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In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a courtly culture that was already preoccupied with honor and secrecy, European poets, romance writers, and lovers devised a vision of love as something quite different from desire. Romantic love was thus...
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The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten works, the non-literary as well as the literary, and pays special attention to the Japanese state's hand in shaping literature throughout the country's nineteenth-century industrialization, a half-century...
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Hokusai's 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō 1805-1806 is something completely different!It is different from his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji, which are sublime artistic expressions distilling a long life's work.It is different from much of Hokusai's other well known work, like his 100 Views of Mt Fuji. But in that series Hokusai still retained a lot of the humor and the caricature found here.It is different from the many other well known 53 Stations of...
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After half a decade in Japan, Garett Wilson thought that nothing could shock him anymore...until he started a new job and a new life at a high school in downtown Tokyo. Here he discovered the real Japan, not the version sold to tourists, and realized that it was far more thrilling, heartbreaking, and beautiful than anything he had ever experienced. Over the course of one year in Tokyo, Garett navigates the perilous waters of 21st-century Japan, where...
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Explores the surprisingly rich early history of US-China trade and its unexpected impact on the developing republic.
The economic and geographic development of the early United States is usually thought of in trans-Atlantic terms, defined by entanglements with Europe and Africa. In Trading Freedom, Dael A. Norwood recasts these common conceptions by looking to Asia, making clear that from its earliest days, the United States has been closely...
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Japanese baseball, the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) has published the two-volume set, Nichibei Yakyu: US Tours of Japan, Volumes I and II. Over 100 baseball teams from the United States and Hawaii have crossed the Pacific to play baseball in Japan since 1906. Nichibei Yakyu Volumes I and II are the first works in English that focuses on these international tours and volume 2 focuses on the latter...
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