Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 089346984X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
“Richie should be designated a living national treasure.”—Library Journal "Wonderfully evocative and full of humor... honest, introspective, and often poignant."—New York Times "No one has written with more concentration about the peculiar quality of exile enjoyed by the gaijin, the foreigner in Japan."—London Review of Books "To read [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any part of them and you will surely find treasures about the cinema, literature, traveling, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and often profound."—Japanese Language and Literature Donald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived on New Year’s Eve, 1946. Detailing his life, his lovers, and his ideas on matters high and low, The Japan Journals is a record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility. As Japan modernizes and as the author ages, the tone grows elegiac, and The Japan Journals—now in paperback after the critically acclaimed hardcover edition—becomes a bittersweet chronicle of a complicated life well lived and captivatingly told. Donald Richie, the eminent film historian, novelist, and essayist, still lives in Tokyo.
The Japan Journals
Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 089346984X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
“Richie should be designated a living national treasure.”—Library Journal "Wonderfully evocative and full of humor... honest, introspective, and often poignant."—New York Times "No one has written with more concentration about the peculiar quality of exile enjoyed by the gaijin, the foreigner in Japan."—London Review of Books "To read [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any part of them and you will surely find treasures about the cinema, literature, traveling, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and often profound."—Japanese Language and Literature Donald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived on New Year’s Eve, 1946. Detailing his life, his lovers, and his ideas on matters high and low, The Japan Journals is a record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility. As Japan modernizes and as the author ages, the tone grows elegiac, and The Japan Journals—now in paperback after the critically acclaimed hardcover edition—becomes a bittersweet chronicle of a complicated life well lived and captivatingly told. Donald Richie, the eminent film historian, novelist, and essayist, still lives in Tokyo.
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 089346984X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
“Richie should be designated a living national treasure.”—Library Journal "Wonderfully evocative and full of humor... honest, introspective, and often poignant."—New York Times "No one has written with more concentration about the peculiar quality of exile enjoyed by the gaijin, the foreigner in Japan."—London Review of Books "To read [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any part of them and you will surely find treasures about the cinema, literature, traveling, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and often profound."—Japanese Language and Literature Donald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived on New Year’s Eve, 1946. Detailing his life, his lovers, and his ideas on matters high and low, The Japan Journals is a record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility. As Japan modernizes and as the author ages, the tone grows elegiac, and The Japan Journals—now in paperback after the critically acclaimed hardcover edition—becomes a bittersweet chronicle of a complicated life well lived and captivatingly told. Donald Richie, the eminent film historian, novelist, and essayist, still lives in Tokyo.
Sake & Satori
Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781577312369
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A previously unpublished sequel to Baksheesh and Brahman reports on the author's travels through east Asia and his five-month stay in Japan in the 1950s, during which he experienced local culture and witnessed the area's struggles with Cold War tensions and western values. 20,000 first printing.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781577312369
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A previously unpublished sequel to Baksheesh and Brahman reports on the author's travels through east Asia and his five-month stay in Japan in the 1950s, during which he experienced local culture and witnessed the area's struggles with Cold War tensions and western values. 20,000 first printing.
Japan Travel Journal
Author: Lana Barce
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515397274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This Travel journal has 160 pages, in which more than half of the book contains pages to write thoughts, and others to fill in with favorite restaurants, landscapes, photos and more. The blank pages are perfect for those who want to make their own notes and not be governed 100%.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515397274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This Travel journal has 160 pages, in which more than half of the book contains pages to write thoughts, and others to fill in with favorite restaurants, landscapes, photos and more. The blank pages are perfect for those who want to make their own notes and not be governed 100%.
Strange Big Moon
Author: Joanne Kyger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556433375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Hungry to explore Zen and make the discoveries that would shape a lifetime of poetry, Joanne Kyger left for Japan in her twenties and returned four years later ready to carve out a substantial niche in San Francisco's Beat poetry movement. Whether she is studying under Zen teacher Ruth Fuller Sakaki or meeting with the Dalai Lama (who at 27 "lounged on a velvet couch like a gawky adolescent in red robes"), her journals are witty, amusing, and intelligent, in this fascinating look at the art of poetry and portrait of the counterculture abroad.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556433375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Hungry to explore Zen and make the discoveries that would shape a lifetime of poetry, Joanne Kyger left for Japan in her twenties and returned four years later ready to carve out a substantial niche in San Francisco's Beat poetry movement. Whether she is studying under Zen teacher Ruth Fuller Sakaki or meeting with the Dalai Lama (who at 27 "lounged on a velvet couch like a gawky adolescent in red robes"), her journals are witty, amusing, and intelligent, in this fascinating look at the art of poetry and portrait of the counterculture abroad.
Asian Journals
Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: Collected Works of Joseph Camp
ISBN: 9781608685042
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A tour of the Far East, narrated by the world's preeminent mythologist
Publisher: Collected Works of Joseph Camp
ISBN: 9781608685042
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A tour of the Far East, narrated by the world's preeminent mythologist
Precarious Japan
Author: Anne Allison
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377241
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting many Japanese, not only in the literal sense but also in the figurative sense of not belonging. Until the collapse of Japan's economic bubble in 1991, lifelong employment and a secure income were within reach of most Japanese men, enabling them to maintain their families in a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. Now, as fewer and fewer people are able to find full-time work, hope turns to hopelessness and security gives way to a pervasive unease. Yet some Japanese are getting by, partly by reconceiving notions of home, family, and togetherness.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377241
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting many Japanese, not only in the literal sense but also in the figurative sense of not belonging. Until the collapse of Japan's economic bubble in 1991, lifelong employment and a secure income were within reach of most Japanese men, enabling them to maintain their families in a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. Now, as fewer and fewer people are able to find full-time work, hope turns to hopelessness and security gives way to a pervasive unease. Yet some Japanese are getting by, partly by reconceiving notions of home, family, and togetherness.
A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist
Author: Marie Carmichael Stopes
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
'A Journal from Japan' is an intimate and honest account of life in Japan, written by the pioneering female scientist, Marie Carmichael Stopes. Originally intended only for friends and acquaintances, the journal provides a unique perspective on a rapidly changing country through the eyes of a Westerner with a deep interest in the East. From her encounters with the Japanese people and their traditions, to her scientific work and personal experiences, Stopes offers a vivid and unfiltered picture of Japan, as seen by a curious and open-minded outsider.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
'A Journal from Japan' is an intimate and honest account of life in Japan, written by the pioneering female scientist, Marie Carmichael Stopes. Originally intended only for friends and acquaintances, the journal provides a unique perspective on a rapidly changing country through the eyes of a Westerner with a deep interest in the East. From her encounters with the Japanese people and their traditions, to her scientific work and personal experiences, Stopes offers a vivid and unfiltered picture of Japan, as seen by a curious and open-minded outsider.
Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination
Author: Atsuko Watanabe
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030043991
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book is the first attempt to comprehensively introduce Japanese geopolitics. Europe’s role in disseminating knowledge globally to shape the world according to its standards is an unchallenged premise in world politics. In this story, Japan is regarded as an enthusiastic importer of the knowledge. The book challenges this ground by examining how European geopolitics, the theory of the modern state, traveled to Japan in the first half of the last century, and demonstrates that the same theory can invoke diverged imaginations of the world by examining a range of historical, political, and literary texts. Focusing on the transformation of power, knowledge, and subjectivity in time and space, Watanabe provides a detailed account to reconsider the formation of contemporary world order of the modern territorial states.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030043991
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book is the first attempt to comprehensively introduce Japanese geopolitics. Europe’s role in disseminating knowledge globally to shape the world according to its standards is an unchallenged premise in world politics. In this story, Japan is regarded as an enthusiastic importer of the knowledge. The book challenges this ground by examining how European geopolitics, the theory of the modern state, traveled to Japan in the first half of the last century, and demonstrates that the same theory can invoke diverged imaginations of the world by examining a range of historical, political, and literary texts. Focusing on the transformation of power, knowledge, and subjectivity in time and space, Watanabe provides a detailed account to reconsider the formation of contemporary world order of the modern territorial states.
The Log-book of William Adams, 1614-19
Author: William Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Japan, China
Author: Nikos 1885-1957 Kazantzakes
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014211958
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014211958
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.