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Book Collection of Auction Catalogs on Japanese Art

Download or read book Collection of Auction Catalogs on Japanese Art written by Arthur Baldwin Duel and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Reports

Download or read book Annual Reports written by Carnegie Institute and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes report of the director of fine arts, of the director of the Museum, and of the director of the Technical schools.

Book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library  the Fogg Art Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library the Fogg Art Museum written by Harvard University. Fine Arts Library and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1971 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Yankee in Meiji Japan

Download or read book A Yankee in Meiji Japan written by James L. Huffman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book portrays the evolution of Meiji Japan through the life of crusading journalist Edward H. House (1836-1901). In chapters that alternate between history and biography, James Huffman, shows how one man bridged continents--shaping American attitudes, influencing Japan's movement toward modernity, and providing a contemporary critique of imperialism. Huffman also captures the human drama of House's life: his early bohemianism, the mystical way Japan drew him, the painful struggle with gout, the joy and torment of adopting a Japanese girl, his fight for women's education, and the vicissitudes of friendship with Mark Twain. Meticulously researched, the book draws on House's voluminous writings and on hundreds of letters between House and major figures in both America and Japan, including Mark Twain, U.S. Grant, John Russell Young, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Okuma Shigenobu, and Inoue Kaoru. With its lively, accessible prose and seamless interweaving of the life of House with the history of the Meiji era, this book will be welcomed by students, scholars, and general readers interested in modern Japanese history and in America's nineteenth-century foreign relations.

Book Japanese Fashion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Toby Slade
  • Publisher : Berg
  • Release : 2009-11-01
  • ISBN : 1847887481
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Japanese Fashion written by Toby Slade and published by Berg. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Fashion examines the entire sweep of Japanese clothing history, from the sophisticated fashion systems of late-Edo period kimonos to the present day, providing possible theories of how Japan made this fashion journey and linking current theories of fashion to the Japanese example. The book is unique in that it provides the first full history of the last 200 years of Japanese clothing. It is also the first book to include Asian fashion as part of global fashion as well as fashion theory. It adds a hitherto absent continuity to the understanding of historical and current fashion in Japan, and is pioneering in offering possible theories to account for that entire history. By providing an analysis of how that entire history changes our understanding of the way fashion works, this book will be an essential text for all students of fashion and design.

Book The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe

Download or read book The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe written by Ian Nish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by the need to identify, classify and assess western technology and culture together with a desire to advance a dialogue for reviewing the so-called 'unequal treaties' - the new Meiji government of 1868 despatched a top-level ministerial team to the west which, in 1872, arrived in the United States. In all, they spent 205 days in America, 122 days in Britain and two months in France, as well as visiting other countries including Belgium, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Italy. Drawing on the papers given at the triennial conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, held in Budapest in August 1997 (the year also marking the 125th anniversary of Iwakura's arrival), this volume presents a valuable new overview of the mission as a whole, with the significance and impact of the visit to each country being separately assessed. A supplement to the book looks at several 'post-Iwakura' topics, including a review of the mission's chief chronicler, Kume Kunitake.

Book Love  Sex  and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation

Download or read book Love Sex and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation written by M. McLelland and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War.

Book Underground Escape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Masanobu Tsuji
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1952
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Underground Escape written by Masanobu Tsuji and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Japanese officer’s account of his experience as a fugitive in the years following World War II. Tsuji was an ardent Japanese nationalist and opponent of the U.S. He had planned the successful Japanese invasion of Malaya as well as the later campaign against Guadalcanal. After the Japanese defeat, he went into hiding in Thailand, assuming the guise of a Buddhist monk. From there he made his way to China, where he was aided by the Chinese Nationalists and considered an intelligence asset. He remained in China from 1945-1948, during which time some of his colleagues were tried and executed at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. He returned to Japan in 1949 and wrote about his war experiences. He was elected to the Diet in 1952 and re elected twice. In 1961 he went missing in Laos and was declared dead in 1968.

Book Beyond Bilateralism

Download or read book Beyond Bilateralism written by Ellis S. Krauss and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Bilateralism analyzes how, and to what extent, crucial global and regional security, finance, and trade transformations have altered the U.S.-Japan relationship and how that bilateral relationship has in turn influenced those global and regional trends.

Book North China Hong list

Download or read book North China Hong list written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Probabilistic Safety Assessment for Seismic Events

Download or read book Probabilistic Safety Assessment for Seismic Events written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) is considered to be an important tool for assessing the safety of nuclear installations (typically used for safety assessment of nuclear power plants) in relation to potential initiating events that can be caused by random component failure and human error, as well as internal and external hazards. The purpose of seismic PSAs performed on nuclear installations is to provide risk insights related to their seismic robustness. The methodology for seismic safety evaluations includes a combination of deterministic and probabilistic approaches. Their applications typically address the impact of beyond design basis seismic events. This publication provides a detailed methodology for seismic PSA in line with the current international practices for seismic safety assessment of nuclear installations. Taking into account recommendations provided in IAEA safety standards and information reflected in internationally recognized technical standards, it reflects the current state of practice in the area of seismic PSA.

Book Japonisme in Britain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ayako Ono
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-11-05
  • ISBN : 1136625038
  • Pages : 273 pages

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.

Book The Honorable Picnic

Download or read book The Honorable Picnic written by Thomas Raucat and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occidental in Japan arranges picnic with a girl. A Japanese merchant acts as their chaperone.

Book The Other Side of Zen

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  • Author : Duncan Ryūken Williams
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780691119281
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Other Side of Zen written by Duncan Ryūken Williams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, contemplating nothingness. This book presents the "other side of Zen," by examining the movement's explosive growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) in Japan and by shedding light on the broader Japanese religious landscape during the era. Using newly-discovered manuscripts, Duncan Ryuken Williams argues that the success of Soto Zen was due neither to what is most often associated with the sect, Zen meditation, nor to the teachings of its medieval founder, Dogen, but rather to the social benefits it conveyed." "Williams's work is based on careful examination of archival sources including temple logbooks, prayer and funerary manuals, death registries, miracle tales of popular Buddhist deities, secret initiation papers, villagers' diaries, and fundraising donor lists."--Jacket.

Book To the Ends of Japan

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  • Author : Bruce L. Batten
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2003-02-28
  • ISBN : 0824865200
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book To the Ends of Japan written by Bruce L. Batten and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Japan? Who are its people? These questions are among those addressed in Bruce Batten's ambitious study of Japan's historical development through the nineteenth century. Traditionally, Japan has been portrayed as a homogenous society formed over millennia in virtual isolation. Social historians and others have begun to question this view, emphasizing diversity and interaction, both within the Japanese archipelago and between Japan and other parts of Eurasia. Until now, however, no book has attempted to resolve these conflicting views in a comprehensive, systematic way. To the Ends of Japan tackles the "big questions" on Japan by focusing on its borders, broadly defined to include historical frontiers and boundaries within the islands themselves as well as the obvious coastlines and oceans. Batten provides compelling arguments for viewing borders not as geographic "givens," but as social constructs whose location and significance can, and do, change over time. By giving separate treatment to the historical development of political, cultural, and ethnic borders in the archipelago, he highlights the complex, multifaceted nature of Japanese society, without losing sight of the more fundamental differences that have separated Japan from its nearest neighbors in the archipelago and on the Eurasian continent.