Download or read book Ayako written by Osamu Tezuka and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered as one of Osamu Tezuka’s most political narratives, Ayako is also considered to be one of his most challenging as it defies the conventions of his manga by utilizing a completely original cast and relying solely on historical drama to drive the plot. Ayako, pulls no punches, and does not allow for gimmicks as science-fiction or fantasy may. Instead Tezuka weaves together a tale which its core simply focuses on a single family, a family that could be considered a metaphor for a rapidly developing superpower. Overflowing with imagery of the cold war seen through Japan’s eyes, Ayako is firmly set in realism taking inspiration from a number of historical events that occurred over the American occupation and the cultural-revolution which soon followed. Believed to be Tezuka’s answer to the gekiga (dramatic comics) movement of the 60’s, Ayako should be considered one of the better early examples of a seinen (young adult) narrative to be published. Initially set in the aftermath of World War II, Ayako focuses its attention on the Tenge clan, a once powerful family of landowners living in a rural community in northern Japan. From the moment readers are introduced to the extended family, it is apparent that the war and American occupation have begun to erode the fabric that binds them all together. The increasing influence of political, economic and social change begins to tear into the many Tenge siblings, while a strange marriage agreement creates resentment between the eldest son and his sire. And when the family seems to have completely fallen apart, they decide to turn their collective rage on what they believe to be the source of their troubles—the newest member of the Tenge family, the youngest sister Ayako.
Download or read book Blind Spot Volume 2 Ayako s Choice written by Guillaume Lebigot and published by Guillaume Lebigot. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayako still hesitates about her career path. What can a disabled girl like her hope for? Follow Ayako and her friends go through high school life and search for their future.
Download or read book Miracles written by Sono Ayako and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miracles, a minor classic of Japanese literature, is a major contribution to fiction in pursuit of the supernatural. Sono Ayako's searching novel centers on Polish martyr Maximilian Kolbe, the "saint of Auschwitz." She retraces the extraordinary feats of this Conventual Franciscan-from his mission to Japan to the concentration camp where Kolbe offered up his life to save a man condemned to death. Through the veil of fiction Ayako meditates on the nature of self-sacrifice and the possibility of believable miracles in a disenchanted world. In her preface to Miracles she writes: "Before he died, this priest flung a tough question like a red-hot iron rod at the dried-up soul of modern Man. The question was, 'what does it mean for us to love one another?'" Sono Ayako (b. 1931) is one of postwar Japan's most prolific writers. Her fiction was shortlisted for the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. Besides Miracles, only Watcher from the Shore and No Reason for Murder have been translated into English.
Download or read book Ayako Miyawaki the Art of Japanese Applique written by Ayako Miyawaki and published by National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 1991 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japonisme in Britain written by Ayako Ono and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan held a profound fascination for western artists in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the influence of Japonisme on western art was pervasive. Paradoxically, just as western artists were beginning to find inspiration in Japan and Japanese art, Japan was opening to the western world and beginning a process of thorough modernisation, some have said westernisation. The mastery of western art was included in the programme. This book examines the nineteenth century art world against this background and explores Japanese influences on four artists working in Britain in particular: the American James McNeill Whistler, the Australian Mortimer Menpes, and the 'Glasgow boys' George Henry and Edward Atkinson Hornel. Japonisme in Britian is richly illustrated throughout.
Download or read book No Reason for Murder written by 曽野綾子 and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Set on the rural Miura peninsula, southwest of Tokyo, the story focuses on the relationship between two very different people: Yukiko, a humble, single Christian woman with strong principles; and Fujio, an undisciplined social misfit and womanizer who loathes the social mores of his fellow human beings. Yukiko turns out to be the one woman Fujio cannot seduce, and she provides a moral lifeline for his confused psychological state as he sinks ever further into a mire of rape, murder and incarceration." "Ayako Sono, known for her concern with Japan's social problems and deteriorating moral principles, presents a rich tapestry of characters, including a smothering and indulgent mother, a high school dropout, a department store clerk, a precocious young boy; a Japanese Catholic priest, a female lawyer, lonely housewives, pestering reporters and persistent policemen." "The psychology of a serial murderer and a depiction of the workings of the Japanese police and media are topics rarely found in literature from Japan. Against that background, Ayako Sono delicately probes into the reasons behind love, hate, and even murder."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Beautiful Darkness written by Kerascoët and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of little people find themselves without a home in this horror fantasy classic Newly homeless, a group of fairies find themselves trying to adapt to their new life in the forest. As they dodge dangers from both without and within, optimistic Aurora steps forward to organize and help build a new community. Slowly, the world around them becomes more treacherous as petty rivalries and factions form. Beautiful Darkness became a bestseller and an instant classic when it was released in 2014. This paperback edition of the modern horror classic contains added material, preparatory sketches, and unused art. While Kerascoët mix gorgeous watercolors and spritely cartoon characters, Fabien Vehlmann takes the story into bleaker territory as the seasons change and the darkness descends. As with any great horror, there are moments of calm and jarring shocks while a looming dread hangs over the forest.
Download or read book Child Welfare and Development written by Sachiko Bamba and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bamba and Haight provide an in-depth understanding of the everyday experiences and perspectives of maltreated children and their substitute caregivers and teachers in Japan. Their innovative research program combines strategies from developmental psychology, ethnography and action research. Although child advocates from around the world share certain goals and challenges, there is substantial cultural variation in how child maltreatment is understood, its origins, impact on children and families, as well as societal responses deemed appropriate. The authors step outside of the Western cultural context to illustrate creative ecologically and developmentally based strategies for supporting the psychosocial well-being of maltreated children in state care, provide an alternative but complementary model to the prevalent large-scale survey strategies for conducting international research in child welfare, and provide a resource for educators to enhance the international content of human development, education, social work and child welfare courses.
Download or read book Reclaiming the Archive written by Vicki Callahan and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of film history and feminist studies will appreciate the breadth of work in this volume.
Download or read book International Noir written by Pettey Homer B. Pettey and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following World War II, film noir became the dominant cinematic expression of Cold War angst, influencing new trends in European and Asian filmmaking. International Noir examines film noir's influence on the cinematic traditions of Britain, France, Scandinavia, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and India. This book suggests that the film noir style continues to appeal on such a global scale because no other cinematic form has merged style and genre to effect a vision of the disturbing consequences of modernity. International noir has, however, adapted and adopted noir themes and aesthetic elements so that national cinemas can boast an independent and indigenous expression of the genre. Ranging from Japanese silent films and women's films to French, Hong Kong, and Nordic New Waves, this book also calls into question critical assessments of noir in international cinemas. In short, it challenges prevailing film scholarship to renegotiate the concept of noir. Ending with an examination of Hollywood's neo-noir recontextualization of the genre, and post-noir's reinvigorating critique of this aesthetic, International Noir offers Film Studies scholars an in-depth commentary on this influential global cinematic art form, further offering extensive bibliography and filmographies for recommended reading and viewing.
Download or read book The Fourth World Authors Definitive Edition written by Laurence Moroney and published by Laurence Moroney. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All new, updated and revised edition with a new afterword from the author. Buried deep below the Nevada desert, in a place often called Area 51, is a very special and ancient school where the best and brightest children come to learn the technology that will bring mankind to its next step of evolution -- a place amongst the stars. 'The Fourth World' follows four children through their entry into this school: 'Fintan Reilly' is a young, often bullied Irish boy who has a big destiny; Zach Adams, from Fresno, is his diametric opposite, and instant best friend; Ayako Katsuragi is a brilliant Japanese girl, a military brat who is as capable as she is smart and Nizhoni Benally is a Navajo from New Mexico, who is as tough as she is beautiful, and who somehow shares a secret past with Fintan. The book follows their first year in their new school, with an Alien as headmaster, and where they learn everything from Cosmic History through to how to fly a flying saucer, and comes to a shocking conclusion in a field trip to Mars where ancient secrets are uncovered.
Download or read book The Street of a Thousand Blossoms written by Gail Tsukiyama and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text
Download or read book Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition written by Zhaohong Han and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a systematic attempt to address the issue of fossilization in relation to a fundamental question in second language acquisition research, which is: why are learners, adults in particular, unable to develop the level of competence they have aspired to in spite of continuous and sustained exposure to the target language, adequate motivation to learn, and sufficient opportunity to practice?
Download or read book Dying to Be Healed written by Stefanie Cabaniss and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sitting on the couch in the hospice house and literally watching as her best friend lay dying, Stefanie Cabaniss knew in those agonizing moments that the story must be told. As with the Scriptural account of Noah, Abraham and Moses, this recollection conveys a realistic version of that manner of ‘crazy’ faith. Dying to be Healed is not a story set in a backdrop of ages past. It is a contemporary, true, bittersweet and altogether real-life narrative of the final months of earthly existence of Stefanie’s best friend, Monica. Monica battled the ravages of stage-four Melanoma but came to strongly and immovably believe that she had been miraculously healed by the power of the Great Physician. This is a story of that unshakeable faith in the midst of rampant physical contradiction. Dying to Be Healed is also homage to Monica who gave to those around her a reason for hope, and for an abiding appreciation of the abundant blessings of the Lord. If life at times overwhelms you, Dying to Be Healed will help you discover what faith in God will accomplish. From reliving the account of Monica’s relationship with the Lord, you will: • Learn of sustaining and abiding faith. • Witness a convincing demonstration of God’s power and peace! • Find resolve to have a Great Day every day regardless of circumstances! Dying to be Healed is not a story set in a backdrop of ages past. It is a contemporary, true, bittersweet and altogether real-life narrative of the final months of earthly existence of Stefanie’s best friend, Monica. Monica battled the ravages of stage-four Melanoma but came to strongly and immovably believe that she had been miraculously healed by the power of the Great Physician. This is a story of that unshakeable faith in the midst of rampant physical contradiction. Dying to Be Healed is also homage to Monica who gave to those around her a reason for hope, and for an abiding appreciation of the abundant blessings of the Lord. If life at times overwhelms you, Dying to Be Healed will help you discover what faith in God will accomplish. From reliving the account of Monica’s relationship with the Lord, you will: • Learn of sustaining and abiding faith. • Witness a convincing demonstration of God’s power and peace! • Find resolve to have a Great Day every day regardless of circumstances!
Download or read book United States Statutes at Large written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book You Like Me Not My Daughter Volume 5 Light Novel written by Kota Nozomi and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayako and Takumi are finally dating! She has a boyfriend for the first time in her thirty-[REDACTED] years of life, and he’s officially going out with the only woman he’s ever had feelings for, so they’re both pretty new at this. But wait...they’re already moving in together?! Thanks to a not-so-coincidental internship that fell into Takumi’s lap, he and Ayako end up sharing a condo in Tokyo when she goes there for a three-month business trip, and it’s just the two of them. Despite both of them being in the first month of their first relationship, now they’re already eating, bathing, and sleeping together under one roof... Can Ayako’s heart take all the excitement?
Download or read book Films in the Collection of the Pacific Film Archive written by Pacific Film Archive and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
