Download or read book Neko Notoriety written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-color illustrated adventure of Japan's folklore, myth and cultural connection to one of the world's most beloved animals, cats. Neko Notoriety, introduces both recognizable figures such as the Lucky Cats, the stories and meanings behind them as well as the mysterious creatures of magic and lore, such as the twin tailed nekomata. Learn about some of Japan's most interesting tales of cats in both history and legend, from shrines to a whole island of cats, brought to life by the illustrations of Alaskan artist, Kari L. Ronning. Inspired by the love of Japanese culture and art that heavily influenced the author's artistic growth and style, comes a fun and lovely artwork collection looking into the rich tales of a country and people seeped in wonder, mystery and even some whimsy of the magic of the cat. Written for any age, this storybook is illustrated with both traditional and re-imagined styles inspired by both Japanese traditional style as well as its adorable pop culture that can be enjoyed by all.
Download or read book MaRa Dark Spirit Of The Painted Neko written by John Mills and published by John Mills. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the electrifyingly funny psychological thriller sure to rattle your bones and make you spit out your morning coffee. Full of lore and laughs, John Mills's conversational masterpiece and debut works introduces you to the world of Gaia. A supranational political eco-system co-habited by Spirits and Mortals. When the newly wed couple Ben Nevis and Liu Yang return to the United Kingdom to begin their life anew, their lives are upended upon the arrival of a mysterious celestial azure cat, heralding an elephant that falls from the sky. It's all down hill from there. Soon they are thrust into a fiendish and bizarre enigma of paranormal death, parallel realities, consequence and misfortune. At the behest of an ambassador to the Gods able to manipulate the Waters of Time, the work of an ambitious Detective Sergeant and the antagonisation from a clandestine agency, amongst a cast of zany, unforgettable characters, Ben will discover he has been harbouring an archaic entity in his home. A destructive, tormenting spirit interned within the paint of a Maneki-Neko. Able to manipulate the will of humans and create bizarre, obscene havoc of all types. With nothing but his wit, and the occasional fart up his backside, Ben will understand his place in a destiny thousands of years in the making. Hopefully before it's too late. A lesson to be learned that Divine Intervention might not always be a good thing.
Download or read book Cat Zodiac written by Maeva Considine and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystified by your cat? Look to the stars—and this whimsically illustrated guide—for answers! Whether you’ve got a brand-new kitten or a longtime feline companion, you need only look to the stars to demystify your cat’s personality and behaviors. This zodiac collection delves into the inner lives of cats, exploring each sun sign and offering character traits, lifestyle insights, and relationship inclinations to help cat owners learn to live in harmony with their unique pets. Filled with delightful illustrations, this book helps you understand your tabby Taurus or calico Capricorn—and finally unlocks the secrets of the feline mystique!
Download or read book Neko Atsume Kitty Collector Haiku Seasons of the Kitty written by , Hit Point and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku for Cat Lovers Follow the cute cartoon kitties of the Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector mobile game as they stalk through the seasons of the year, their misadventures captured in witty haiku. Have you ever wondered what the Neko Atsume kitties get up to when they’re not playing with the toys you set out for them or leaving you fish...? Turn the inventive pages of this haiku almanac and find out! Warning: Includes kitty stats, kitty bios, rare kitties, kitty shenanigans...and STICKERS! -- VIZ Media
Download or read book Neko Atsume Kitty Collector Where Am I Meow written by , Hit Point and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Neko Atsume Kitty Collector: Where Am I Meow? you can enjoy the kitties from the popular mobile game in even more ways: Find the special kitties on every page! Use stickers to set each kitty scene! Visit amazing new kitty worlds! Learn all about the kitties in the official kitty dictionary! There are so many kitties to love! Are you ready? -- VIZ Media
Download or read book CMJ New Music Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMJ New Music Monthly, the first consumer magazine to include a bound-in CD sampler, is the leading publication for the emerging music enthusiast. NMM is a monthly magazine with interviews, reviews, and special features. Each magazine comes with a CD of 15-24 songs by well-established bands, unsigned bands and everything in between. It is published by CMJ Network, Inc.
Download or read book Maneki Neko Kei The Lucky Cat Of Harajuku written by Nicole Russin-McFarland and published by Lucky Pineapple Books. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kei is a white cat whose favorite food is salmon! When Naomi's clothing store in Imado goes out of business, Kei appears with a surprise. Inspired by the Japanese legend of the lucky beckoning cat.
Download or read book Maneki Neko written by Susan Lendroth and published by Shen's Books. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese legend of Maneki Neko, the beckoning cat, who is a symbol of good luck and good fortune in many Asian countries. In a small Japanese village, a poor monk and his cat Tama live a simple life at the Kotoku Monastery. One day, a great storm passes through the village, and Tama is caught in the rain outside the temple. She waits under the eaves of a small shrine, cleaning her face and whiskers as best she can with her paw. A noble samurai is also passing through, and stops his horse under the cover of a large tree. But through the rain, what does he see? A cat with a raised paw, beckoning him forward? Curious, the samurai urges his horse forward. Just then, a bolt of lightning flashes and strikes the tree behind him, splitting it in two. The beckoning cat has saved his life. In his gratitude, the samurai brings riches to the small temple and the monk, who shares his wealth with the village. So goes the Japanese legend of Maneki Neko, the beckoning cat. And to this day, the cat with raised paw beckoning guests is a symbol of good luck and good fortune in many Asian countries.
Download or read book The Secret Art of Pressure Point Fighting written by Vince Morris and published by Ulysses Press. This book was released on 2008-05-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all new, modern looking guide to pressure point fighting--the martial art and self defense technique that allows anyone (regardless of size) to quickly immobilize an attacker by striking at the vulnerable spots on the body.
Download or read book Maneki Neko Japan s Beckoning Cats written by Mingei International Museum and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication... documents an exhibition of the same name organized and presented by Mingei International Museum, March 13, 2011-January 15, 2012"--P. iv.
Download or read book Maneki Neko written by Nicole Russin and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kei is a white cat whose favorite food is salmon! When Naomi's clothing store in Imado goes out of business, Kei appears with a surprise. Inspired by the Japanese legend of the lucky beckoning cat.
Download or read book Japan Pop Up Book written by Sam Ita and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an exciting manga pop-up journey across Japan with Chico and Neko the Cat! Pick up where Tokyo Pop-Up Book left off, as Chico and his mischievous cat Neko visit Japan's most famous landmarks. The chase is on as naughty Neko slips away yet again--this time becoming a stowaway on a Japanese bullet train! Using his phone to track his runaway cat, Chico follows Neko to some of Japan's most iconic places: Mt. Fuji and the Big Buddha at Kamakura Serene Kinkaku-ji, the Temple of the Golden Pavilion Himeji Castle, an ancient Samurai fortress with its formidable stone ramparts A sushi train restaurant, where an endless parade of fish is truly a cat's dream! The Children's Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, where Chico pauses to reflect The famous "floating" Torii gate at Itsukushima "Cat Island" (Tashirojima), where Neko finds a few new friends and the adventure comes to a happy conclusion! Educational and entertaining in equal measure, this exciting manga pop-up book will be treasured by readers of all ages.
Download or read book The Tale of the Lucky Cat written by Sunny Seki and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humble toymaker is rewarded for helping an injured cat in this story that explains the origin of the maneki neko, or lucky cat statues that are popular throughout Japan for spreading good fortune.
Download or read book Country Midwestern written by Mark Guarino and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched major figures like blues legend Muddy Waters, gospel soul icon Mavis Staples, hip-hop firebrand Kanye West, and the jazz-rock band that shares its name with the city. Far less known, however, is the vital role Chicago played in the rise of prewar country music, the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s, and the contemporary offspring of those scenes. In Country and Midwestern, veteran journalist Mark Guarino tells the epic century-long story of Chicago’s influence on sounds typically associated with regions further south. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and deep archival research, Guarino tells a forgotten story of music, migration, and the ways that rural culture infiltrated urban communities through the radio, the automobile, and the railroad. The Midwest’s biggest city was the place where rural transplants could reinvent themselves and shape their music for the new commercial possibilities the city offered. Years before Nashville emerged as the commercial and spiritual center of country music, major record labels made Chicago their home and recorded legendary figures like Bill Monroe, The Carter Family, and Gene Autry. The National Barn Dance—broadcast from the city’s South Loop starting in 1924—flourished for two decades as the premier country radio show before the Grand Ole Opry. Guarino chronicles the makeshift niche scenes like “Hillbilly Heaven” in Uptown, where thousands of relocated Southerners created their own hardscrabble honky-tonk subculture, as well as the 1960s rise of the Old Town School of Folk Music, which eventually brought national attention to local luminaries like John Prine and Steve Goodman. The story continues through the end of the twentieth century and into the present day, where artists like Jon Langford, The Handsome Family, and Wilco meld contemporary experimentation with country traditions. Featuring a foreword from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks and casting a cross-genre net that stretches from Bob Dylan to punk rock, Country and Midwestern rediscovers a history as sprawling as the Windy City—celebrating the creative spirit that modernized American folk idioms, the colorful characters who took them into new terrain, and the music itself, which is still kicking down doors even today.
Download or read book Cultural and Creative Mural Spaces written by Virginia Santamarina-Campos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book puts into context the evolution of mural art in recent years, particularly the case of the contemporary muralism in Uruguay. While the focus of this volume, revolves around Uruguay, the editors demonstrate that circumstances found in Uruguay are also reflected widely in a large number of cases worldwide. Mural art has evolved from an elite audience to a more popular objective. At the same time, it does not lose the necessity of high value artists that, not only technically but also conceptually, will be able to connect to the audience and provide a sense of identity and necessity of preservation of this art. This leads to a down-top approach, where different actors take part in the process, from the conceptualization to the conservation. Moreover, mural art has been studied as a driver of local economic development, attracting visitors and tourists can access these open-air museums easily. This book is of interest to students and researchers working in fine art, heritage and museum studies.
Download or read book Screening the Unwatchable written by A. Grønstad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.
Download or read book New Extremism in Cinema written by Tanya C Horeck and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explosive images of sex and violence in films by directors such as Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noe, Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier have attracted media attention for the ways in which they seek to shock and provoke the spectator into powerful affective and visceral responses. This first collection of essays devoted to the new extremism in contemporary European cinema critically interrogates this highly contentious body of work and demonstrates that these films and the controversies they engender are indispensable to the critical task of rethinking the terms of spectatorship. Through critical discussions of key films and directors, this book sheds new light on cutting-edge debates in Film Studies regarding sexuality, violence and spectatorship, affect and ethics, and the political dimensions of extreme cinema.Including important new work from internationally renowned scholars Martin Barker and Martine Beugnet, as well as combining a range of approaches to extreme cinema across audience research and
