The Japanese Art of War

The Japanese Art of War
Author: Thomas F. Cleary
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1991
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"Thomas Cleary shows us how well-known attributes such as the reserve and mystery of formal Japanese behavior are deeply rooted in the ancient strategies of the traditional arts of war. Citing original sources that are popular among Japanese readers today, he reveals hidden forces behind Japanese attitudes and conduct in political, business, social, and personal life."--BOOK JACKET.

Historia mínima de Japón

Historia mínima de Japón
Author: Michiko Tanaka
Publisher: El Colegio de Mexico AC
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 6074624402

Este libro presenta, a grandes rasgos, el extraordindario desarrollo político, económico, social y cultural de Japón desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días. Se trata, también, de una caracterización de los cambios y las permanencias durante el proceso de conformación de lo japonés, en contraste e interacción constante con as experiencias de otro pueblos.

The Samurai and the Cross

The Samurai and the Cross
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2022-07-05
Genre: Japan
ISBN: 0195335430

In 1614 the shogunate prohibited Christianity amidst rumors of foreign plots to conquer Japan. But more than the fear of armed invasions, it was the ideological threat--or spiritual conquest--that the Edo shogunate feared the most. This book explores the encounter of Christianity and premodern Japan in the wider context of global and intellectual history. M. Antoni J. Ucerler examines how the Jesuit missionaries sought new ways to communicate their faith in an unfamiliar linguistic, cultural, and religious environment--and how they sought to re-invent Christianity in the context of samurai Japan. They developed an original moral casuistry or cases of conscience adapted to the specific dilemmas faced by Japanese Christians. This volume situates the European missionary enterprise in East Asia within multiple geopolitical contexts: Both Ming China and Warring States Japan resisted the presence of foreigners and their beliefs. In Japan, where the Jesuits were facing persecution in the midst of civil war, they debated whether they could intervene in military conflicts to protect local communities. Others advocated for the establishment of a Christian republic or civil protectorate. Based on little-known primary sources in various languages, The Samurai and the Cross explores the moral and political debates over religion, law, and reason of state that took place on both the European and the Japanese side.

The Ways of the Samurai

The Ways of the Samurai
Author: Carol Gaskin
Publisher: iBooks
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780743486651

For more than 700 years Japan was dominated by a military caste-the samurai. To the Western mind these fearsome warriors-samurai, the masterless ronin, and the assassin ninja-have always been a source of mystery and wonder, combining the idealism of chivalry with military fanaticism. THE WAYS OF THE SAMURAI digs beneath the myth and reveals a truth even more amazing about the men who practiced a discipline drawn from Zen and Confucian ethics-bushido, the way of the warrior.

A History of Jesuit Missions in Japan

A History of Jesuit Missions in Japan
Author: Guillaume Alonge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2023-12-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1003847633

In the aftermath of the religious crisis triggered by the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church set out to conquer faithful in new territories. The first missionaries to arrive in Japan were the Jesuits who were forced to adopt a different type of evangelization, with a bottom-up rather than a top-down approach. This volume shows that Japan turned out to be a land of experimentation and development of a global Catholicism, as well as an unprecedented laboratory of encounter between political, scientific and religious cultures in the age of the first globalization. It analyzes the different conversion strategies developed by the Jesuit fathers toward various groups, including samurai, Buddhist bonzes and Japanese peasants. A key step was the appropriation of sacred space by the missionaries: first in a violent way with the construction of large crosses and the destruction of temples, pagodas and pagan idols, then through strategies more flexible and accommodating of replacing pre-existing cultural practices. To be attractive, the Jesuit fathers had to compromise with local culture and spirituality, but they were also forced, in some way, to simplify and modify their very way of understanding and living Christianity. This book also reflects on the reasons for the failure of this ambitious Catholic conversion project: the hostility of the Japanese ruling class, the irreducibility of a different culture and spirituality, but also, if not above all, the rise of internal rivalries in Catholicism between Jesuits, Franciscans and Dominicans. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the history of the Jesuits, Catholic missions and Christianity in Japan.

The Samurai's Garden

The Samurai's Garden
Author: Gail Tsukiyama
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2008-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429965142

The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama's The Samurai's Garden uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for this extraordinary story. A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.

Kagetora Ha Tojutsu I (Spanish/ Espanol)

Kagetora Ha Tojutsu I (Spanish/ Espanol)
Author: Carlos Febres
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2012-07-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1105954242

Kagetora Ha Tojutsu Volumen I La Escuela moderna de esgrima japonesa del Kagetora Ha Bujutsu Kai se dedica a la practica y el studio historico del uso de sables tanto de los samurais como de la gente comun. Esta es una introducion a las tacticas de KODACHI y del TANTO. Realmente, estas son Las Espadas del Pueblo

Historia de los samuráis

Historia de los samuráis
Author: Jonathan López Vera
Publisher: Alianza Editorial
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2021-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 8413622867

Pocas figuras del Lejano Oriente tan atractivas para el imaginario occidental (y descontando, por supuesto, el propio de Japón) como la del samurái, temible guerrero imbuido de una mística especial y provisto de una exótica indumentaria y un armamento deslumbrante. En "Historia de los samuráis", Jonathan López-Vera desentraña el fondo de este estereotipo y expone su trayectoria histórica: un recorrido tan ameno como riguroso que abarca más de mil años en los que a lo largo de siete siglos constituyeron la elite social y política del país, contribuyendo a forjar su propio mito. En esta misma colección: "Los samuráis", de Wolfgang Schwentker, "La nobleza del fracaso: Héroes trágicos de la historia de Japón", de Ivan Morris, y "Los 47 ronin: el tesoro de los leales vasallos".

Satsuma Gishiden

Satsuma Gishiden
Author: Hiroshi Hirata
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Caste
ISBN: 9781593075170

For Japan's most tenacious samurai, humility arrives in the form of a peasant's work. Confounded by demands that they work on a public project damming some of the country's most damaging rampaging rivers, the esteemed samurai of the Satsuma province must put aside their pride in order to survive and fight another day.

Los Ojos Así

Los Ojos Así
Author: Miguel Vitagliano
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1996
Genre: Music
ISBN: