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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1974
ISBN 10: 0870112317ISBN 13: 9780870112317
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Meat and vegetable ingredients familiar to Westerners are used in these basic recipes from China's most densely populated province.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995
ISBN 10: 156836072XISBN 13: 9781568360720
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Rutgers professor Tiger explores the human trait of believing in hope and improvement.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1993
ISBN 10: 4770014953ISBN 13: 9784770014955
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Shiratori, Yoshio (illustrator). First Edition. Looks at Japanese designs for compact housing, suggests a variety of storage options, and describes design strategies for making small spaces seem larger.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1996
ISBN 10: 4770019866ISBN 13: 9784770019868
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. After suffering a series of personal tragedies including the loss of her two sons, Marie Kuraki leaves her home in Japan searching for a way to understand her life and finds herself venerated as a saint in a remote Mexican village.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1982
ISBN 10: 087011526XISBN 13: 9780870115264
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Shows how to adapt aspects of Japanese home design: formal entranceways, alcoves, screens, partitions, and diffuse lighting, into Western style homes.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1991
ISBN 10: 0870119532ISBN 13: 9780870119538
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Aims to help expand vocabulary and improve reading comprehension by modifying the reader's existing lexicon. The Power Japanese series presents a selection of guides to difficult or confusing aspects of the Japanese language. The student can find a quick reference to particles, a guide to the myriad levels of politeness, books of idioms, vocabulary builders, emotive expressions and turns of speech - all with natural examples.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1994
ISBN 10: 1568360452ISBN 13: 9781568360454
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Softcover. Condition: Good. In the bestselling tradition of A Brief History of Time, a dazzling account of the age-old quest to unravel the riddle of the universe, which eludes us ever more craftily the closer we think we've come to it--or as the Jewish proverb says, "Man thinks, God laughs".
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1994
ISBN 10: 1568360185ISBN 13: 9781568360188
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The U.S. debut of Japan's most provocative woman author offers a frank look at American urban life, focusing on Koko, a New York woman who struggles with an older black boyfriend, a young son, and a fast-paced downtown crowd.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1990
ISBN 10: 0870119834ISBN 13: 9780870119835
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In this strikingly beautiful and revolutionary work, Toshiro Kawase introduces a fresh approach to flower arrangement, demonstrating through breathtaking color photographs his universally appealing style of bringing nature into home and heart.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha America, Inc, 1969
ISBN 10: 0870110853ISBN 13: 9780870110856
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Great pocket guide.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1992
ISBN 10: 4770015399ISBN 13: 9784770015396
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Yonekawa, Akihiko.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1991
ISBN 10: 4770015771ISBN 13: 9784770015778
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Internationally known designer Fumi Kimura marries the refined simplicity and natural beauty of Japanese taste to the classic elegance of the Western table, to achieve a mixture of motifs and styles suitable for any occasion, formal or casual. 100 color photographs.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1984
ISBN 10: 0870116533ISBN 13: 9780870116537
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. This illustrated guide covers all the reader needs to know about Japan's national drink. The text explains the history, production, customs, utensils and language of sake, and identifies the best brands and the tastiest side dishes.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1992
ISBN 10: 477001659XISBN 13: 9784770016591
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. In 1869 a half-blind Greek-Irish teenager named Lafcadio Hearn came to Cincinnati, Ohio, and by the age of twenty-four became the city's most famous newspaper reporter on the strength of his lurid crime stories and bizarre explorations of the city's dark underside.Fired in 1877 for his brief marriage to a black woman, he wandered from New Orleans to New York to the Caribbean before finally settling in Japan where, in a unique act of self-transformation, he became a Japanese patriot and patriarch.Full of excerpts from Hearn's writing, Jonathan Cott's insightful portrayal of an extraordinary life recovers for a Western audience a unique figure of the nineteenth century.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1994
ISBN 10: 1568360541ISBN 13: 9781568360546
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An insightful and recondite chronicle of a journey through Chinese Turkestan retracing the ancient routes that were once essential to world trade offers a rich and revealing portrait of one of the world's most unfamiliar and fascinating areas. Reprint.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1985
ISBN 10: 0870116983ISBN 13: 9780870116988
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. Book by O'Neill, P. G.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995
ISBN 10: 1568360673ISBN 13: 9781568360676
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Conventional wisdom suggests that aesthetic experiences - those moments when the senses come to life - are important only after more basic needs have been met. In this inspiring wealth of provocative ideas, Yi-Fu Tuan demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential parts of life and society. The aesthetic is shown to be not merely one aspect of culture but its central core - both its driving force and its ultimate goal. Beginning with the individual and the physical world, the author's exploration progresses from the simple to the complex. Tuan starts by examining the building blocks of aesthetic experience - sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste - and gradually expands his analysis to include the most elaborate of human constructs, including art, architecture, literature, philosophy, music, and landscape. This leads him to the realm of politics, where he grapples with the fundamental question of the relationship between goodness and beauty, and of how the aesthetic can become a moral force within society. To guide the reader along this journey, the author describes how the aesthetic operates in four widely disparate Australian aboriginal, Chinese, medieval European, and modern American. Yi-Fu Tuan, one of our most influential and original thinkers, brilliantly conveys the profound fascination of multisensory reality, and in so doing enables us to make connections among even the most diffuse elements of our lives. While Tuan does not ignore human folly, Passing Strange and Wonderful is a celebration of the world around us, our experiences, and our creations.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1988
ISBN 10: 0870119028ISBN 13: 9780870119026
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This work is an exploration of the role of the individual in Japan and Japanese concepts of self-awareness, communication and relationships.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1991
ISBN 10: 4770015518ISBN 13: 9784770015518
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Presents the true story of Yoshima Ishikawa, a Japanese-American who immigrated as a teenager to California in 1965, searching for the American Dream.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1994
ISBN 10: 1568360061ISBN 13: 9781568360065
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Looks at the life and career of the Japanese literature specialist, including his time in World War II as a language officer at Pearl Harbor, his stint as a Chinese war-crimes investigator, and his eventual return trip to Japan.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1984
ISBN 10: 0870116363ISBN 13: 9780870116360
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Looks at the works of a modern Japanese textile designer who incorporates sixteenth century dyeing techniques into his luxurious kimonos.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1989
ISBN 10: 0870118919ISBN 13: 9780870118913
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. <b> A Stranger in Tibet</b><p> To reach the "forbidden city" of Lhasa was the dream of generations of Western explorers. But until 1900 when Kawaguchi Ekai, a young Zen monk, donned a disguise and walked all the way there, few foreigners had ever done so. Clinging staunchly to his chastity; leaving a trail of broken hearts across the Himalayas; oppressed by the cultural impossibility of bathing, yet frequently almost drowned in river crossings; often lost and on the verge of starving or freezing to death; robbed by highwaymen, and taken for a spy; speaking fluently the language of a people he preferred not to understand. This brave, bigoted, and enterprising traveler was eventually to cross Tibet from west to east, study in one of the country's greatest monasteries, and keep his secret there for over a year.<p> His first full length biography is based on memories and the information gathered by the author.
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Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1997
ISBN 10: 477001922XISBN 13: 9784770019226
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American. On leave after the death of his wife and a job-related injury, a police inspector returns to the force when his banker nephew's fiance+a7e suddenly vanishes, and his investigation into her disappearance reveals troubling puzzles about the woman and her background.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1981
ISBN 10: 087011395XISBN 13: 9780870113956
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The art of Japan is at once an expression of the relative unity of Far Eastern culture and a sophisticated metamorphosis of native aesthetic canons that has produced an international style as distinctive as the Rococo and the Islamic. In a brilliant crystallization of the essence of Japanese design, Dr. Sherman Lee, one of the foremost authorities in the field, recalls the supremacy of Chinese civilization in Asian culture, and reveals, first, how the Far Eastern situation differed from that of the Western world, and then, in light of this, how the Japanese came to assert their own aesthetic inclinations. Dr. Lee's lucid analysis, substantiated by the finest examples of Japanese art (32 color plates, 800 black-and-white plates, including 17 pages of Japanese mon, or family crests), offers a stimulating discussion of how Japanese art differs from Chinese, going beyond mere generalities to the quintessence of Japanese aesthetic design.According to Dr. Lee, the Japanese eye delights in asymmetry, intuitive placement, subtle shades and combinations of colors, as compared to the Chinese proclivity toward balance, rational sequence, and purity and separation of colors. The vocabulary of Japanese design is distinguished by the dominance of asymmetric composition, the dominance of the material over the carefully reticent hand of the artist, the dominance of pattern and of motif, often traditional and with literary overtones.More than an essay about art divorced from culture, Dr. Lee's sensitive introductory text acknowledges the role of the natural and social environment upon the Japanese psyche. His chronological treatment examines the maturation of a sumptuous decorative style that finds its antecedents in Yamato-e of the Fujiwara Period (897-1185). Enhanced by the tea taste of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615), this culminated in the splendid Rimpa style which today still colors the aesthetic sense of modern Japanese. In addition, he discusses the place of ukiyo-e and garden art to present a full consideration of the distinctive vocabulary and singular spirit of Japanese design.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1998
ISBN 10: 4889960414ISBN 13: 9784889960419
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 0. Book by Fuse, Tomoko.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1984
ISBN 10: 087011641XISBN 13: 9780870116414
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Articles and essays probe and comment on contemporary Japanese cultural, social, and political life as well as exploring various aspects of Japanese literature.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1991
ISBN 10: 4770009569ISBN 13: 9784770009562
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Book by Keene, Donald.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1998
ISBN 10: 1568362463ISBN 13: 9781568362465
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. During the final year of the Tokugawa regime, Yoshinobu overhauls the military system, reorganizes civil administration, and expands foreign intercourse with the aim of creating a unified Japan.
Published by Brand: Kodansha America, Inc, 1977
ISBN 10: 0870112759ISBN 13: 9780870112751
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Seven men climbed the thirteen steps to the gallows that day in 1948. The setting was Tokyos bleak Sugamo prison, and six of the seven men were members of Japans once-powerful military clique. The seventh man was different. His name was Hirota Koki, and he was a civilian---a former career diplomat who had risen to be both foreign minister and prime minister. No one who knew Hirota could ever have foreseen that this unassuming, rather schoolmasterish figure would one day be charged as a war criminal, much less that he would be singled out as a leader of a conspiracy to wage a war of aggression. In recounting this tragedy of an ordinary man caught up in the cogs of fate, the author skillfully interweaves it with the broad stream of events and the careers of Hirotas contemporaries. ---from the dust jacket.
Published by Brand: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1992
ISBN 10: 4770016506ISBN 13: 9784770016508
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An account of the life and the travels of the first man known to have reached Europe describes the customs, cultures, and places Rabban Sauma encountered as he crossed two continents, witnessing volcano eruptions and the conversations of kings.
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