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Essential for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. The World War II-era study by the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict paints an illuminating contrast between the people of Japan and those of the United States. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a revealing look at how and why our societies differ, making it the perfect introduction to Japanese history and customs.
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English
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In Japanese, the word for "foreign country" means "outnation." But to many Americans and Japanese, it is Japan itself, despite its increasing influence in world affairs, that is the outsider-the outnation: a country, as some have said, in the world but not of it.
How different is this industrial superpower? Why did its fast climb to the pinnacle of the global economy also contain the causes of its subsequent fall? And what can we all-Americans and...
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Heibonsha survey of Japanese art volume 30
Publisher
Weatherhill
Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
177 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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English
10) Early Japan
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Series
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Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1968
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191 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps.
Language
English
Series
What life was like volume 13
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 7
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144 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 26 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
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4 DVDs (720 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
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English
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Lecturer Mark J. Ravina presents a series of 24 30-minute lectures on the culture of Japan, from prehistoric through contemporary times. DVD format.
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Abbeville Press Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
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2208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
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English
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"A visual journey through Zen's influence on Japanese life, from calligraphy to the martial arts Formed by a convergence of the Buddha's teachings with Taoism and local tradition, Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. As a philosophy, Zen promotes a recognition of emptiness and impermanence. As an aesthetic, it is marked by striking simplicity and a reverence for space. It operates on the principle of wabi-sabi, the harmony...
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Picador
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"The Bells of Old Tokyo is a remarkable literary debut by Anna Sherman that is an elegant and insightful tour of Tokyo and its residents, as well as a meditation on Japanese culture and society. The book is structured around Anna's search for the eight lost bells that once surrounded the city. These bells marked the city's neighborhoods and kept time for its inhabitants before the introduction of Western-style clocks. The bells are tangible vestiges...
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