Ueki No Te Ire: the Japanese Art of Giant Bonsai

Ueki No Te Ire: the Japanese Art of Giant Bonsai
Author: Eric Mader
Publisher:
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2005
Genre: Bonsai
ISBN: 141162565X

The first comprehensive guide to ornamental pruning of Japanese-style landscape trees in the English language. Ideal for bonsai and Japanese garden enthusiasts as well as landscape designers, and professional gardeners. Includes a brief history of Asian topiary as well as step-by-step guidelines to pruning and training landscape trees in several formal Japanese styles.

Tuttle Concise Japanese Dictionary

Tuttle Concise Japanese Dictionary
Author: Samuel E. Martin
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 1080
Release: 2013-02-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1462910416

Every serious student of Japanese needs a reliable and user-friendly dictionary in their collection. Tuttle Concise Japanese Dictionary, now with 30% more content, is a completely updated dictionary designed for students and business people who are living in Japan and using the Japanese language on a daily basis. Its greatest advantage is that it contains recent idiomatic expressions which have become popular in the past several years and which are not found in other competing dictionaries. The dictionary has been fully updated with the addition of recent vocabulary relating to computers, mobile phones, social media and the Internet. Other special features that set this dictionary apart include: Over 25,000 words and expressions including idioms and slang. User-friendly layout with main entries in color. Complete Japanese-English and English-Japanese sections. Romanized forms and the Japanese script are given for all Japanese words. A guide to pronunciation helps the user to pronounce Japanese words correctly. Different senses of each word are distinguished by multiple definitions.

Creating Socialist Women in Japan

Creating Socialist Women in Japan
Author: Vera Mackie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1997-07-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521551373

This 1997 book analyses the writings of Japanese socialist women and explores the place and perspectives of women there early in the twentieth century.

Niwaki

Niwaki
Author: Jake Hobson
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2007
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0881928356

Over the years, Japanese gardeners have fine-tuned a distinctive set of pruning techniques that coax out the essential characters of their garden trees, or niwaki. In this highly practical book, Western gardeners are encouraged to draw upon the techniques and sculpt their own garden trees to unique effect. After first discussing the principles that underpin the techniques, the author offers in-depth guidelines for shaping pines, azaleas, conifers, broadleaved evergreens, bamboos and deciduous trees. Throughout the text, step-by-step illustrations accompany the instructions, while abundant photographs and anecdotes bring the ideas surrounding niwaki vividly to life.

Flowers in Salt

Flowers in Salt
Author: Sharon L. Sievers
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1983
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804713825

"This carefully researched and original monograph describes the lives and thoughts of a series of women who sought fairer economic, social and political roles for women during Japan's first half-century of modernization...It is of interest not only to students of feminism but also to anyone who wishes to understand modern Japan." [Choice].

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols)

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols)
Author: Alexander Vovin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1310
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004422811

This is the revised, updated and enlarged second edition of the first detailed descriptive grammar in English dedicated to the Western Old Japanese. The grammar is divided into two volumes, with the first volume dealing with sources, script, phonology, lexicon, nominals and adjectives. The second volume focuses on verbs, adverbs, particles, conjunctions and interjections.

Through the Last Door

Through the Last Door
Author: J. A. Jaken
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2014-12-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781987465013

When Kaori Sansa's father dies, he is forced to return home to claim the throne as the rightful heir of the country of Kazure. In the aftermath of his father's death, he learns that the country he loves is riddled with corruption, and is hovering on the brink of war. Will he be able to hold the kingdom together despite the odds that are stacked against it, and somehow unlock the buried powers of Shinja, the Sacred Beast of Kazure?

The Sex-Starved Marriage

The Sex-Starved Marriage
Author: Michele Weiner-Davis
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Limited
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004
Genre: Psychosexual disorders
ISBN: 9780743252416

'Not tonight, darling, I've got a headache...' An estimated one in three couples suffer from problems associated with one partner having a higher libido than the other. Marriage therapist Michele Weiner Davis has written THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE to help couples come to terms with this problem. Weiner Davis shows you how to address pyschological factors like depression, poor body image and communication problems that affect sexual desire. With separate chapters for the spouse that's ready for action and the spouse that's ready for sleep, THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE will help you re-spark your passion and stop you fighting about sex. Weiner Davis is renowned for her straight-talking style and here she puts it to great use to let you know you're not alone in having marital sex problems. Bitterness or complacency about ho-hum sex can ruin a marriage, breaking the emotional tie of good sex.

Harem Royale -When the Game Ends- Vol. 1

Harem Royale -When the Game Ends- Vol. 1
Author: Ryukishi07
Publisher: Sol Press, LLC.
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2019-01-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1948838060

From the mind of Ryukishi07, creator of classics such as Higurashi and Umineko, comes a heart-pounding, full-throttle Harem Royale! Kohinata Asunaro is your regular everyday high school student. He likes light novels, porn games, and fantasizing about the girls in his class. One day when walking home from school he inexplicably releases a demon from a sealed bottle. Her name is Zepafur, and she won't rest until her debt is repaid! "Now begins the Lovey Dovey Harem Royale!" cries the demon, weaving a most curious magic. As a result, Asunaro's regular high school life transforms into a love-comedy series of harem shenanigans, with four girls from his school all vying for his affection, wow! But... Unbeknownst to our dopey protagonist, the four girls are in the midst of a horrific survival game under threat of death and eternal torture. She who fails to capture Asunaro's heart will be confined to the depths of Hell and killed ad infinitum! Just who will survive? Who will thrive? And who will meet their demise?