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Author | : Dorothy Hoobler |
Publisher | : Putnam Juvenile |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780698119710 |
The beautiful, mysterious women of Japan are being killed one by one. The famous samurai Judge Ooka knows he will need help to solve the crimes, so he turns to his newly adopted son, fourteen-year-old Seikei. Determined to prove his worth as a samurai, Seikei goes undercover as a teahouse attendant in the exotic "floating city" of Yoshiwara, where demons lurk among the pleasure seekers and no one is safe-not even a samurai. "Rousing adventure and suspense." ( School Library Journal)
Author | : Dorothy Hoobler |
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Release | : 2001-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780847974122 |
Author | : Dorothy Hoobler |
Publisher | : Puffin |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780142403662 |
In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai.
Author | : Mark R. E. Meulenbeld |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2015-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0824838459 |
Revealing the fundamental continuities that exist between vernacular fiction and exorcist, martial rituals in the vernacular language, Mark Meulenbeld argues that a specific type of Daoist exorcism helped shape vernacular novels in the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Focusing on the once famous novel Fengshen yanyi ("Canonization of the Gods"), the author maps out the general ritual structure and divine protagonists that it borrows from much older systems of Daoist exorcism. By exploring how the novel reflects the specific concerns of communities associated with Fengshen yanyi and its ideology, Meulenbeld is able to reconstruct the cultural sphere in which Daoist exorcist rituals informed late imperial "novels." He first looks at temple networks and their religious festivals. Organized by local communities for territorial protection, these networks featured martial narratives about the powerful and heroic deeds of the gods. He then shows that it is by means of dramatic practices like ritual, theatre, and temple processions that divine acts were embodied and brought to life. Much attention is given to local militias who embodied "demon soldiers" as part of their defensive strategies. Various Ming emperors actively sought the support of these local religious networks and even continued to invite Daoist ritualists so as to efficiently marshal the forces of local gods with their local demon soldiers into the official, imperial reserves of military power. This unusual book establishes once and for all the importance of understanding the idealized realities of literary texts within a larger context of cultural practice and socio-political history. Of particular importance is the ongoing dialog with religious ideology that informs these different discourses. Meulenbeld's book makes a convincing case for the need to debunk the retrospective reading of China through the modern, secular Western categories of "literature," "society," and "politics." He shows that this disregard of religious dynamics has distorted our understanding of China and that "religion" cannot be conveniently isolated from scholarly analysis.
Author | : Dorothy Hoobler |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2008-10-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0142412082 |
When he returns home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with smugglers, Seikei, now a samurai, becomes involved in murder at a local puppet theater and saving the life of his sister's accused boyfriend.
Author | : Gerald A. Figal |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822324188 |
Discusses the representation/role of the supernatural or the "fantastic" in the construction of Japanese modernism in late 19th and early 20th century Japan.
Author | : Jeannie Lin |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1459230566 |
The USA Today–bestselling author of The Dragon and the Pearl “combines wit, seduction, skill, and intelligence in a tantalizing take on ‘My Fair Lady’” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Yan Ling tries hard to be servile—it’s what’s expected of a girl of her class. Being intelligent and strong-minded, she finds it a constant battle. Proud Fei Long is unimpressed by her spirit—until he realizes she’s the answer to his problems. He has to deliver the emperor a “princess.” In two months can he train a tea girl to pass as a noblewoman? Yet it’s hard to teach good etiquette when all Fei Long wants to do is break it, by taking this tea girl for his own . . . “Lin has a gift for bringing the wondrous and colorful world of ancient China to readers. The history and culture of the era are beautifully bound together with a classic romance theme. Those yearning for new worlds and age-old adventures will savor Lin’s novel.” —Romantic Times
Author | : Dorothy Hoobler |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780399246104 |
Samurai Seikei and Judge Ooka, his foster-father, seek seven men who have seven maps on their backs in order to locate a cache of dangerous weapons before they fall into the wrong hands.
Author | : Courtney Alameda |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-01-28 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062570838 |
This thrilling YA retelling of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai features a girl tasked with saving the world from eternal darkness. Perfect for fans of Six of Crows and Marie Lu. Seventeen-year-old Kira Fujikawa has never had it easy. She’s bullied by the popular girls in school. Her parents ignore her. And she’s also plagued with a secret: She can see yokai, the ghosts and demons that haunt the streets of Kyoto. But things accelerate from bad to worse when she learns that Shuten-doji, the demon king, will rise at the next blood moon to hunt down an ancient relic and bring the world to a catastrophic end. Not exactly skilled at fighting anything, much less the dead, Kira enlists the aid of seven powerful death gods to help her slay Shuten-doji. They include Shiro, a kitsune with boy-band looks who is more flirtatious than helpful, and O-bei, a regal demon courtier with reasons of her own for getting involved. As the confrontation with Shuten-doji draws nearer, the fate of Japan hangs in the balance. Can Kira save humankind? Or will the demon king succeed in bringing eternal darkness upon the world?
Author | : Dorothy Hoobler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494770891 |
Adopted samurai Seikei goes to the shogun's palace to view a demonstration of European medicine. Instead, he sees a murder as one of the foreigners dies of poisoning. Another of the foreigners wants to take away the young nephew of the dead man, but the boy is reluctant. He does not speak Japanese, so to keep him out of harm's way, Seikei's foster father tells Seikei to take him to the foreigners' base at Nagasaki. What seems like a simple task soon turns into a dangerous one, for many people seem to want the boy for their own peculiar purposes. Seikei has to use all his ingenuity and daring to carry out his mission and find the murderer as well.