My Asakusa

Author : Sadako Sawamura
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462901891
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Asakusa written by Sadako Sawamura and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written near the end of Sadako Sawamura's remarkable life, My Asakusa (Watashi co Asakusa) is a charming collection of autobiographical essays by a truly self-made woman. Recalling Japan at a time of great political turmoil and rapid cultural change, Sawamura shares with us her vignettes of growing up in Asakusa—one of the last of the old downtown Shitamachi neighborhoods of incessantly modernizing Tokyo—and her keen insight into the characters of those who populated her world. Author Sadako Sawamura (1908-1996) was by turns a diligent youth who worked her way through a private secondary school as a tutor, a radical university scholarship student, a Communist youth league worker, a prisoner of conscience, and a star of Japanese theater, cinema, and television. She was beloved in Japan for her forthright convictions and her rare independence, which she expressed in interviews and essays. She is also the author of Kai-no-Uta (The Song of a Shell), which was subsequently produced as a television play.

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Total Pages : 1312 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japan Daily Mail written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book My Asakusa written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written near the end of Sadako Sawamura's remarkable life, My Asakusa (Watashi co Asakusa) is a charming collection of autobiographical essays by a truly self-made woman. Recalling Japan at a time of great political turmoil and rapid cultural change, Sawamura shares with us her vignettes of growing up in Asakusa-one of the last of the old downtown Shitamachi neighborhoods of incessantly modernizing Tokyo-and her keen insight into the characters of those who populated her world.

Author : Norman Tolman
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462903746
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collecting Modern Japanese Prints written by Norman Tolman and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Modern Japanese Prints is an authoritative guide to the contemporary Japanese art form of printmaking Authors, Mary and Norman Tolman have been involved with modern Japanese prints on every level for the past thirty years. They number among their close friends a great many contemporary Japanese printmakers. This Japanese print book contains several bodies of information. An introductory essay puts Japanese prints into historical perspective and gives a brief outline of techniques. All of the prints are in full color, in as large a format as possible, so that the art lover can savor the details of each work.

Author : Samuel E. Martin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082484386X
Total Pages : 1202 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reference Grammar of Japanese written by Samuel E. Martin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered about a Japanese sentence your textbook fails to explain? Do you feel unsure about the use of "wa," "ga," and "mo?" Or what the rules and meanings of words in their literary forms are? If so, you will find your answers in A Reference Grammar of Japanese, the most comprehensive and reliable reference source available. With an extensive 105-page index, the reader will quickly find explanations for particles such as wa, ga, mo, ni, and de; difficult nouns such as mono, koto, tokoro, wake, hazu, and tame; sentence extensions such as ne, yo, sa, yara,and nari; verb tenses, literary forms, negative forms--in short, everything concerned with the Japanese language. For the serious student, this book is indispensable for clearing up the ambiguities of puzzling Japanese sentences.

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136901019
Total Pages : 2560 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RLE: Japan Mini-Set C: Language and Literature (8 vols) written by Various Authors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 2560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mini-set C: Language & Literature re-issues a century of publishing in 8 volumes originally published between 1896 and 1989 and covers phonetics, grammar and syntax of the Japanese language as well as some of its most iconic literature and drama. For institutional purchases for e-book sets please contact [email protected] (customers in the UK, Europe and Rest of World)

Author : Angela Kimi Coaldrake
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415165334
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Gidayū and the Japanese Theatre Tradition written by Angela Kimi Coaldrake and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English on women's gidayu and introduces the performers, their music and the politics of their survival within the male-dominated world of Japanese theatre tradition. It explores the intricate web of interrelationships of personality, organization of performance in women's gidayu in contemporary Japan. Kimi Coaldrake's book is a pioneering study of a traditional and dynamic area of Japanese cultural life that has previously been little understood in the West. It will be of particular interest to those studying Japanese theatre and its music as well as those seeking insights into the contribution of women to Japanese theatre history. The CD which accompanies the book provides immediate access to rare historical recordings of the Living National Treasure Takemoto Tosahiro (1897-1992) and other famous women performers, bringing to life the popular tales of gidayu discussed in the text.

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Author : David Peace
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307276503
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Year Zero written by David Peace and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history, Tokyo Year Zero is a “brilliant, perplexing, claustrophobic … exhilarating” crime novel (The New York Times Book Review). It's August 1946—one year after the Japanese surrender—and women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police—irreverent, angry, despairing—goes on the hunt for a killer known as the Japanese Bluebeard—a decorated former Imperial soldier who raped and murdered at least ten women amidst the turmoil of post-war Tokyo. As he undertakes the case, Minami is haunted by his own memories of atrocities that he can no longer explain or forgive.

Author : Edogawa Rampo
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462900615
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination written by Edogawa Rampo and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to readers outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders; and the bizarre tale of a chair-maker who buries himself inside an armchair and enjoys the sordid "loves" of the women who sit on his handiwork. Lucid and packed with suspense, Edogawa Rampo's stories found in Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination have enthralled Japanese readers for over half a century. Mystery stories include: The Human Chair The Caterpillar Two Crippled Men The Traveler with the Pasted Rag Picture