Download or read book Kuma Miko Volume 2 written by Masume Yoshimoto and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machi is 14 years old and has spent her whole life in the Touhoku Mountains as a miko. Raised alongside a talking bear, Natsu, she knows nothing of modern life. But, she's enthralled with its mysteries and determined to figure them out. Natsu attempts to prepare her for the trials and tribulations she will face entering the fast-paced city in this comical coming of age story of a backwoods girl in Japan.
Download or read book Kuma Miko Volume 4 written by Masume Yoshimoto and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a day just like any other, a corpse washes up in the river that separates Kumade from Tamura Village. The victim was a resident of Tamura, so the detectives, considering the long history of antagonism between the villages, suspect someone from Kumade. The detectives look around the village for suspicious characters, and soon their hunt leads them straight to Kumade Shrine!
Download or read book Kuma Miko Volume 7 written by Masume Yoshimoto and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machi starts a new life in a town by the sea. But what happened to her dreams of moving to the big city? She hasn't made it through those big city trials yet and the first semester of school is already over. Now summer break is already here! Summer is the most important time for a student to prepare for entrance exams, but how will Machi spend her time?
Download or read book Kuma Miko Volume 1 written by Masume Yoshimoto and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machi is 14 years old and has spent her whole life in the Touhoku Mountains as a miko. Raised alongside a talking bear, Natsu, she knows nothing of modern life. But, she's enthralled with its mysteries and determined to figure them out. Natsu attempts to prepare her for the trials and tribulations she will face entering the fast-paced city in this comical coming of age story of a backwoods girl in Japan.
Download or read book Kuma Miko Volume 6 written by Masume Yoshimoto and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natsu's childhood friend makes an appearance–and it's another wild bear! Natsu plays the role of a spirit to bless Yoshio and Hibiki's relationship! And, Machi faces new trials on her path to the city! The calm of the village is shattered in Volume 6, a time of upheaval!
Download or read book Kuma Miko Volume 5 written by Masume Yoshimoto and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a detective from outside the village sees Natsu talking, Yoshio quickly explains that the bear is the village mascot. To cover his tracks, Natsu-chan has to come up with a marketing plan for himself. What will happen when he makes his debut on the national stage?
Download or read book Kuma Miko Volume 8 written by Masume Yoshimoto and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy Machi's age arrives from the city, and there's trouble brewing! Meanwhile, a guest from outside the village takes up residence in Kumade for the summer. Right from the start he sees Natsu talking, and Machi is too shy to even talk to him. How will Machi survive her last summer vacation of middle school?
Download or read book Kuma Miko Volume 3 written by Masume Yoshimoto and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While he works at the village hall, Yoshi has a premonition of his fate: To promote tourism to Kumade village! But Kumade only produces bland vegetables, so what is he to do? Machi, and even Hibiki, get drawn into his big project in Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear Volume 3!
Download or read book I Hear the Sunspot written by Yuki Fumino and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of a hearing disability, Kohei is often misunderstood and has trouble integrating into life on campus, so he learns to keep his distance. That is until he meets the outspoken and cheerful Taichi. He tells Kohei that his hearing loss is not his fault. Taichi's words cut through Kohei's usual defense mechanisms and open his heart. More than friends, less than lovers, their relationship changes Kohei forever.
Download or read book Civilization and Empire written by Shogo Suzuki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International Society as a progressive, linear process, this book contends that imperialism – along with an ideology premised on ‘civilising’ ‘barbarous’ peoples – played a central role in its historic development. Considering how these elements of International Society affected China and Japan’s entry into it, Shogo Suzuki contends that such states envisaged a Janus-faced International Society, which simultaneously aimed for cooperative relations among its ‘civilized’ members and for the introduction of ‘civilization’ towards non-European polities, often by coercive means. By examining the complex process by which China and Japan engaged with this dualism, this book highlights a darker side of China and Japan’s socialization into International Society which previous studies have failed to acknowledge. Drawing on Chinese and Japanese primary sources seldom utilized in International Relations, this book makes a compelling case for revising our understandings of International Society and its expansion. This book will be of strong interest to students and researcher of international relations, international history, European studies and Asian Studies.
Download or read book Yuri Bear Storm Volume 3 written by Ikunigomakinako and published by TOKYOPOP. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lulu decides to bring Yuriika and Kale with her to Japan to meet with Sumika, the two discover memories of how they both came to love the same woman -- only for her to end up married to a man she had just met. Their relationship was the start of everything... and then, tragedy struck. What will Kureha do when she discovers the truth?
Download or read book A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese 2 vols written by Alexander Vovin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the revised, updated and enlarged second edition of the first detailed descriptive grammar in English (indeed, in any language other than Japanese and more complete than even any grammar in Japanese) dedicated to the Western Old Japanese, which was spoken in the Kansai region of Japan during the seventh and eighth centuries. The grammar is divided into two volumes, with the first volume dealing with sources, script, phonology, lexicon, nominals and adjectives. The second volume focuses on verbs, adverbs, particles, conjunctions and interjections. In addition to descriptive data, the grammar also includes comparisons between Western Old Japanese and Eastern Old Japanese and Ryukyuan, occasionally with a critical analysis of various external parallels.
Download or read book The Power of Denial written by Bernard Faure and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innumerable studies have appeared in recent decades about practically every aspect of women's lives in Western societies. The few such works on Buddhism have been quite limited in scope. In The Power of Denial, Bernard Faure takes an important step toward redressing this situation by boldly asking: does Buddhism offer women liberation or limitation? Continuing the innovative exploration of sexuality in Buddhism he began in The Red Thread, here he moves from his earlier focus on male monastic sexuality to Buddhist conceptions of women and constructions of gender. Faure argues that Buddhism is neither as sexist nor as egalitarian as is usually thought. Above all, he asserts, the study of Buddhism through the gender lens leads us to question what we uncritically call Buddhism, in the singular. Faure challenges the conventional view that the history of women in Buddhism is a linear narrative of progress from oppression to liberation. Examining Buddhist discourse on gender in traditions such as that of Japan, he shows that patriarchy--indeed, misogyny--has long been central to Buddhism. But women were not always silent, passive victims. Faure points to the central role not only of nuns and mothers (and wives) of monks but of female mediums and courtesans, whose colorful relations with Buddhist monks he considers in particular. Ultimately, Faure concludes that while Buddhism is, in practice, relentlessly misogynist, as far as misogynist discourses go it is one of the most flexible and open to contradiction. And, he suggests, unyielding in-depth examination can help revitalize Buddhism's deeper, more ancient egalitarianism and thus subvert its existing gender hierarchy. This groundbreaking book offers a fresh, comprehensive understanding of what Buddhism has to say about gender, and of what this really says about Buddhism, singular or plural.
Download or read book The Number Concept Its Origin and Development written by Levi L. Conant and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development" by Levi L. Conant. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Pandemonium and Parade written by Michael Dylan Foster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters known as yōkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese imagination over three centuries.
Download or read book Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 Volume 4 written by Miya Kazuki and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring is the season when love blooms! Rozemyne's retainers are bursting with energy as they make clothes, attend their debuts, and shine in the new season. The improved printing press is finally completed in the temple workshop, and the variety of available books is steadily beginning to expand. Picture books, collections of sheet music, knight stories—all are now being sold. Their first aim is to further develop the paper-making industry in preparation for the spread of printing across the entire duchy. To this end, Rozemyne's party travels to Illgner, hoping to teach them how to make paper while also researching new materials to use. As the environment around Rozemyne slowly improves, the archduke's older sister arrives for a visit, shrouding Ehrenfest in an air of unease. Everything changes in this volume of this biblio-fantasy as nobles emotionally clash and the conclusion of Part 3 approaches! Including two newly written short stories and a four-panel manga drawn by You Shiina!
Download or read book Velvet Kiss written by Chihiro Harumi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the volatile relationship between Shin and Kano perseveres, the debt-ridden businessman and child of privilege begin to see each other in a different light. Though Kano grows closer to Shin, he's pulled away from her by a trio of beautiful and enigmatic women - Kano's elegant stepmother Yoriko, the kind-hearted office worker Rumi, and the no-nonsense journalist Mitsumi. Shin faces a crisis - can he choose between what he must do and what he really wants?
