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Maiden Voyage
Japanese from varied domains, as well as shogunal officials, Nagasaki merchants, and an assortment of deck hands, made the voyage along with a British crew, spending a total of ten weeks observing and interacting with the Chinese and with a handful of Westerners. Roughly a dozen Japanese narratives of the voyage were produced at the time, recounting personal impressions and experiences in Shanghai. The Japanese emissaries had the distinct advantage of being able to communicate with their Chinese hosts by means of the "brush conversation" (written exchanges in literary Chinese). For their part, the Chinese authorities also created a paper trail of reports and memorials concerning the Japanese visitors, which worked its way up and down the bureaucratic chain of command. This was the first official meeting of Chinese and Japanese in several centuries.
Talk Japanese Enhanced eBook (with audio) - Learn Japanese with BBC Active
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Akasaka Tanko Roku
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Shadow Shoguns
This is a vivid account of the corrupt and improbable political machine that ran Japanese politics for twenty years, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, the period during which Japan became the world's second-largest economy. Reviews "Washington lobbyists, Moscow mafiosi, and Beijing party bosses stand back! . . . Here is one of the longest running big-time political sleaze serials of the past quarter-century. . . . This was a book waiting to be written, and not only has Schlesinger done it, but he has also produced a fine job of political reporting." --New York Times Book Review "In a rollicking style, Schlesinger . . . demolishes the popular misconception that politicians are boring. ...
The Genera of Fishes and A Classification of Fishes
A Stanford University Press classic.
The Eternal Present of the Past
Drawing together illustration, theater, and literature, this study examines a late Ming conception of the stage as a mystical space for temporal conflation that allowed the past to be reborn in the present and to uphold the continuity of the cultural tradition
古狂歌 ご笑納ください
An explanation in Japanese follows, as the book is written in Japanese. “FuruKyouka GoShounou Kudasai”, subtitled “Manyoushuu made Kubikari ni Ittekimashita” has more than 2,000 pre-modern poems, both waka and kyouka that cover the seasons, love, travel, religion etc to give a comprehensive sampling of what hitherto neglected old kyouka (the free-thinking, free-wording B-side of waka) were about. This is bringing owls back to Athens, but these wise and witty poems are not just the proverbial bird, they are a whole family of owls that never were properly appreciated in their home. In other words, this is a book to change the history of poetry in Japan by introducing the brave, free and funny side of it. (If you cannot read Japanese, check out Mad In Translation. However, the more recent English translations in the Japanese series is, on the whole, better.)『古狂歌 ご笑納ください』の副題は「万葉集まで首狩に行ってきました」。約二千首（＋約一千英訳）以上の歌例は、四季と恋の大なる歌部を始めに、旅、神祇、釈教など古狂歌本にある歌部の総合紹介です。
The Ideologies of Japanese Tea
This provoking study of the Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu) examines the ideological foundation of its place in history and the broader context of Japanese cultural values where it has emerged as a so-called ‘quintessential’ component of the culture. Sen Soshitsu Xl argued that tea be viewed as the expression of the moral universe of the nation.
Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan
This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan’s rapid modernization. Originally published in Japanese, Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan looks at the approach toward object-based research across the late Tokugawa and early Meiji periods, which were typically kept separate, and elucidates the intellectual continuities between these eras. Focusing on the top-down effects of the professionalizing of academia in the political landscape of Meiji Japan, which had advanced by attacking earlier modes of scholarship by antiquarians, Suzuki shows how those outside the government responded, retracted, or challenged new public rules and values. He ex...
