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Author | : Bruce Feiler |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0061863599 |
Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about American culture, while they teach him everything from how to properly address an envelope to how to date a Japanese girl.
Author | : Donald Keene |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0231144415 |
"I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors, my literary tastes, or my awareness of myself as a person, has become the central element of my life." In this eloquent and wholly absorbing memoir, the renowned scholar Donald Keene shares more than half a century of his extraordinary adventures as a student of Japan. Keene begins with an account of his bittersweet childhood in New York; then he describes his initial encounters with Asia and Europe and the way in which World War II complicated that experience. He captures the sights, scents, and sounds of Japan as they first enveloped him, and talks of the unique travels and well-known intellectuals who later shaped the contours of his academic career. Keene traces the movement of his passions with delicacy and subtlety, deftly weaving his love for Japan into a larger narrative about identity and home and the circumstances that led a Westerner to find solace in a country on the opposite side of the world. Chronicles of My Life is not only a fascinating tale of two cultures colliding, but also a thrilling account of the emotions and experiences that connect us all, regardless of our individual origins.
Author | : Alexander Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Japan |
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Author | : Margi Preus |
Publisher | : Perfection Learning |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781613833773 |
Rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island in 1841, Manjiro learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
Author | : William Minor |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Jazz |
ISBN | : 9780472113453 |
One author's personal odyssey through the jazz scene in Japan
Author | : Francis L. K. Hsu |
Publisher | : Halsted Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Guilds |
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Author | : Simon May |
Publisher | : Alma Books |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2012-10-18 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1846882826 |
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Author | : Catharina Blomberg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134240333 |
Traces the development of the samurai, both in the way they regarded themselves and their role in society.
Author | : Timon Screech |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2018-10-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136866736 |
Presenting a revised edition with a new preface of this important work, previously available only in hardback. It has long been assumed that Japan's closed country policy meant that Japan was isolated from the influence of the outside, and in particular the Western, world. However, this study of 18th century Japan, using sources wholly unstudied since their writing, reveals the profound influence that the introduction of Western technology and scientific instruments including glass, lenses and mirrors had on Japanese notions of sight, and how this change in perception was reflected most clearly in popular culture. Screech goes to the core of later eighteenth century thought through popular objects and the propositions which many considered groundbreaking on the book's first publication in 1996 have yet to be substantially challenged.
Author | : Clarence Ludlow Brownell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2014-08-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317805712 |
This collection of commentaries and reflections on Japanese culture, first published in 1904, was written shortly after the return of two English aristocrats from five years spent immersed in the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’. Their intention through these anecdotes – some humorous and charming, others tragic and thought-provoking – was to offer glimpses into the "real inner spirit of the native life," and to provide insights into the remarkable idiosyncrasies of Japanese society during a period of unprecedented change. Touching on such diverse topics as sport, religion, music, censorship, drama and bathing, The Heart of Japan will be of particular interest to students of Japanese, as well as to those intrigued by cultural difference and exchange.