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| Author | : Barbara Boot |
| Publisher | : DR21 Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
A mysterious masked Samurai who is part of myth and legend is brought into reality when he gets an unexpected guest. An Empress who needs his help to save her entire family before they are subjected to the same curse that has been bestowed upon her. All the Masked Warrior can do is hope he gets to them in time.
| Author | : Rei Kimura |
| Publisher | : Booksmango |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2017-03-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 6162220125 |
This is the true story of the tragic life of Okichi Saito who became the pawn to placate Townsend Harris, the first American Consul to Japan in the turbulent mid 1800's. This poignant story takes place during a period in history when the "Black Ships" arrived in Japan and changed many lives, especially those of Okichi and her fianc and lover, Tsurumatsu. Like a butterfly, Okichi was beautiful but fragile, easily tossed about and bruised by the stronger forces of political wheeling and dealing. The story takes the readers on a journey from the wild windswept fishing village of Shimoda to the colorful world of the geishas Okichi was literally sold into, then onto the awesome stage of politics and power and finally to a lonely outcast who walked into the icy waters of the Shimoda Bay one cold grey March morning....
| Author | : Lisa Louis |
| Publisher | : Weatherhill, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Bars (Drinking Establishments) |
| ISBN | : |
Butterflies of the Night is an American woman's inside view of Japan's lively and powerful nightclub world. Includes interviews with women in both high-end clubs and the sleazy end of the business, as well as comments from customers of geisha houses as well as sex clubs.
| Author | : Nobuko Miyamoto |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2021-06-15 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0520380657 |
Intro -- Relocation, or a travelin' girl -- Don't fence me in -- A tisket, a tasket, a brown and yellow basket... -- From a broken past into the future -- Twice as good -- Shall we dance! -- School daze -- Chop suey -- We shall overcome -- Power to the people -- A single stone, many ripples -- Something about me today -- The people's beat -- A song for ourselves -- Nosotro somos Asiaticos -- Foster children of the Pepsi Generation -- A grain of sand -- Free the land -- What will people think? -- Some things live a moment -- How to mend what's broken -- Women hold up half the sky -- Our own chop suey -- What is the color of love? -- Talk story -- Yuiyo, just dance -- Float hands like clouds -- Deep is the chasm -- To all relations -- Bismillah Ir Rahman Ir Rahim -- The seed of the dandelion -- I dream a garden -- Mottainai : waste nothing -- Black Lives Matter -- Bambutsu : all things connected -- Epilogue.
| Author | : Christopher T. Keaveney |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2020-08-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1793625263 |
Using the framework of Edward Said’s Orientalism, this work examines how Western rock and pop artists—particularly during the age of album rock from the 1970s through the 1990s—perpetuated long-held stereotypes of Japan in their direct encounters with the country and in songs and music videos with Japanese content.
| Author | : Angela Davis-Gardner |
| Publisher | : Dial Press Trade Paperback |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2012-04-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385340958 |
When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji’s true identity as a child born from a liaison between an officer and a geisha—and instead tells everyone that he is an orphan. When the truth surfaces, it will splinter this family’s fragile dynamic and send Benji on the journey of a lifetime from Illinois to the Japanese settlements in Denver and San Francisco, then across the ocean to Nagasaki, where he will uncover the truth about his mother’s tragic death. Don’t miss the exclusive conversation between Angela Davis-Gardner and Jennifer Egan at the back of the book.
| Author | : Laird Koenig |
| Publisher | : Easton Studio Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2013-10-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1935212893 |
MORNING SUN LIGHTS UP THE TWO DIFFERENT AND FASCINATING WORLDS OF AMERICA AND JAPAN BEFORE PEARL HARBOR This bestselling author’s wonderfully moving adventure-love story takes us to Japan in 1913. When his US Navy officer father dies, teenage Sam Pinkerton discovers he’s the son of a Japanese mother, and follows his heart to find her. Too late. Madam Butterfly ended her life with a samurai blade. Whether American or Japanese, he’s an outcast desperately alone in the strange and dangerous lower depths of Nagasaki, struggling to stay alive. A wily criminal Japanese kid helps him avoid the law and endure to young manhood and sex in varieties gaijins know little of. A breathtaking fantasy with a geisha ends when corrupt and powerful Kodo traps the American-looking Sam into marrying his club-footed daughter. Sam feels no love, yet respects Mayumi, who bears the children he adores. Her father sends him to the States, posing as an American in a lumber deal illegal for a Japanese. Accepted among the Jazz-Age youth, he falls in love with blonde Nicola. One slip, however, will reveal his identity and mean prison for Sam. Now truly between two worlds -- Nagasaki and Mayumi waiting with his children, or America and his deep love for Nicola. Desert Mayumi the way his father betrayed Butterfly? Where does young Sam belong in the world?
| Author | : Richard Van Camp |
| Publisher | : Portage & Main Press |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2017-05-18 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1553797140 |
A Blanket of Butterflies explores the journey of Shinobu, a mysterious stranger who visits Fort Smith, NWT, to retrieve his family’s samurai suit of armor and sword from the museum. When he discovers that his grandfather’s sword has been lost in a poker game to the man they call “Benny the Bank,” he sets out to retrieve it, with the help of a young boy, Sonny, and his grandmother. Together, they face Benny and his men, Torchy, Sfen and the giant they call Flinch. This graphic novel, beautifully illustrated by Scott B. Henderson, explores the grace of family and the power of the Great Mystery. A Blanket of Butterflies is nominated for a 2016 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue/One-Shot.
| Author | : Ming-Ju Sun |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2008-04-04 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0486465578 |
Painstakingly researched, 30 accurate, detailed illustrations depict the samurai and the tools of their trade: koshozan helmets, armor of metal and leather, su-yari spears, a wall-gun, and other weaponry used on horseback, at sea, and in training.
| Author | : Jeannie Lin |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2010-10-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1426870078 |
During China's infamous Tang Dynasty, a time awash with luxury yet littered with deadly intrigues and fallen royalty, betrayed Princess Ai Li flees before her wedding. Miles from home, with only her delicate butterfly swords for defense, she enlists the reluctant protection of a blue-eyed warrior…. Battle-scarred, embittered Ryam has always held his own life at cheap value. Ai Li's innocent trust in him and honorable, stubborn nature make him desperate to protect her—which means not seducing the first woman he has ever truly wanted….
