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The Feast of Wolves
Anthony Aja-Daniels was raised with high ideals. He grew up in a poor, rough neighborhood in Southern Sahara, a resources rich third world country. Despite the difficult environment, he carried his morality and honor into adulthood. He had pride in his family and his country, known for its extensive hydrocarbon resources. Then, as time passed, his eyes were opened. The immense wealth of Anthony’s nation only lined the private pockets of the powerful ruling class and their associates. There was little hope for an honest, young man, starting on his own. He still tried. He set out to make a way for himself free of the corruption that surrounded him, but Anthony failed. He realized—painfully—if you can’t beat them, join them. His noble approach was futile, so he learned that fortune could be found either through crime or by affiliation with persons in power. In a ruthless, calculated manner, Anthony achieves his every dream, but nothing built on burnt bridges can last forever. As he reaches the pinnacle of success, his past transgressions catch up with him, and his fall will be long and hard.
A Year in Seventeenth-Century Kyoto
Before the twentieth century, Japanese religious and cultural life was shaped by a variety of yearly ceremonies, festivals, and customs. These annual events (nenju gyoji) included Shinto festivals in which participants danced through the night to boisterous music and Buddhist temple practices that honored deities, great priests, or temple founders with solemn rituals and prayers—and sometimes, when the Buddha was invoked, raucous dancing. Temples also hosted popular fairs, where holy objects and artwork were displayed to the faithful and curious. Countless other celebrations were held annually at the residences of the nobility and military elite and at commoner domiciles. Kyoto, the imperi...
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature
This book examines the literature of Shiga Naoya, who is highly regarded in modern Japan for his unique style and methods of describing his personal experiences and emotions. Contributing new findings to the field of scholarship on Shiga, this study focuses in particular on Shiga’s nature-inspired writings and discusses how he created some vivid images of nature that became famous and still linger in Japanese people’s minds. Shiga’s remarkable sensitivity toward nature and the influences he received from earlier writers in Japan and abroad is examined. The complexity and depth of his understanding of nature is further revealed in his fascination with the supernatural, which also contributed to the creation of his literary style.
The Power of Memory in Modern Japan
Due to their symbolic and iconographic meanings, expressions of ‘collective memory’ constitute the mental topography of a society and make a powerful contribution to its cultural, political and social identity. In Japan, the subject of ‘memory’ has prompted a huge response in recent years. Indeed, it has been and continues to be debated at many levels of Japan’s political, social, economic and cultural life. For the historian and social scientist the opportunity to access recorded memories is invariably welcomed as a valuable building block in research and a determinant in establishing balance and perspective. This volume brings together a selection of the most significant research on memory relating to modern Japan. Thematically structured (Politics and International Relations; Memorials, Museums, National Heroes; Popular and Intellectual Representations of Memory; Realms of Memory: Centre and Periphery) the subjects treated include the Nanjing massacre, comfort women, the fate of war monuments, the political use of national memory in post-war Japan and remembering the atomic bomb.
The Willow in Autumn
In early 19th-century Japan - the silver age of Edo-period literature - Ryutei Tanehiko was a well-known author of popular illustrated fiction. This account of his life and works covers his early yomihon (lengthy romances of improbable perils and adventures) and his gokan (intricately plotted stories in simple language intended for a general audience).
Sopravvissuto alla bomba atomica
Dimenticare sarebbe inconcepibile. Per lui, impossibile Una storia vera Il drammatico racconto dell’uomo che si salvò dalla tragedia di Hiroshima Giappone, 6 agosto 1945. Una qualsiasi mattina a Hiroshima. Shinji Mikamo ha diciannove anni e sta aiutando il padre a preparare la loro casa che deve essere demolita, quando un lampo accecante li sorprende. Prima che Shinji possa comprendere ciò che sta accadendo, una palla di fuoco colossale divampa e poi spegne tutto. Una bomba atomica, a un chilometro circa di distanza, ha appena distrutto Hiroshima. Questo libro è la storia dell’uomo che sopravvisse miracolosamente alla prima bomba atomica. 70 anni dopo sua figlia Akiko ha dato voce all...
Bulgarian Horizons;
No. 6- include separately paged literary supplements, with articles in English, French, German and Russian.
Giappone
Con mappa estraibile. Lo spettacolo incantevole della fioritura dei ciliegi, l’atmosfera unica dei giardini Zen, il fascino di una storia e di una cultura remote e millenarie... ma non solo! Il Giappone è una terra dalle molte sfaccettature, capace di offrire ai viaggiatori le straordinarie suggestioni della tradizione accanto ai panorami mozzafiato della vetta innevata del Monte Fuji o dei parchi nazionali di Akan e Kushiro-Shitsugen, fino alle acque cristalline degli atolli tropicali o al frenetico e brulicante movimento delle metropoli futuristiche di Tokyo e Kyoto. Una guida ricchissima e completa per muoversi tra le otto isole principali dell’arcipelago e i differenti territori, alla scoperta di un paese affascinante quanto complesso.
Collected Writings of R.P. Dore
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan, published under the Japan Library imprint, brings together landmark writings by R.P. Dore, on Japanese society, politics and economics.
