Download or read book Samurai Lovers Ghosts written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CANNON BOOKS PRESENTS: Samurai, Lovers, Ghosts -- Selected stories from the works of A. B. Mitford and Lafcadio Hearn. Edited by Ron D'Alena. Discover ancient adventures and ghost stories that blend folklore and history during feudal Japan-an era of daimyo factions, wandering priests, revenge, and the SAMURAI, with their challenges of living and dying through Honor, Loyalty, Bravery, Discipline, Tradition and the Sword. A. B. MITFORD (1837 - 1916) SELECTED STORIES FROM: "Tales of Old Japan" The Forty-Seven Rônins, The Loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki, Kazuma's Revenge, A Story of the Otokodaté of Yedo, The Wonderful Adventures of Funakoshi Jiuyémon, The Eta Maiden and the Hatamoto The Ghost of Sakura. LAFCADIO HEARN (1850 - 1904) SELECTED STORIES FROM: "Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things" The Story of Mimi-Nashi Hoichi, Rokuro-Kubi, Jikininki, The Story of Aoyagi, Diplomacy. SELECTED STORIES FROM: "Shadowings" The Screen-Maiden, The Gratitude of the Samébito, The Reconciliation.
Download or read book Samurai Lovers Ghosts Illustrated Edition written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CANNON BOOKS PRESENTS: Samurai, Lovers, Ghosts (Illustrated Edition) Selected stories from the works of A. B. Mitford and Lafcadio Hearn. Edited by Ron D'Alena. THIS EDITION OF "SAMURAI, LOVERS, GHOSTS INCLUDES" 21 ILLUSTRATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH STORIES BY A. B. MITFORD THAT ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN "TALES OF OLD JAPAN" (1871), AND WHICH WERE DRAWN BY ÔDAKÉ AND CUT ON WOOD BY A WOOD-ENGRAVER FROM YEDO (TOKYO). - Discover ancient adventures that blend folklore and history during feudal Japan--an era of daimyo factions, wandering priests, revenge, and the SAMURAI, with their challenges of living and dying through Honor, Loyalty, Bravery, Discipline, Tradition and the Sword. A. B. MITFORD (1837 - 1916) SELECTED STORIES FROM: "Tales of Old Japan" The Forty-Seven Rônins, The Loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki, Kazuma's Revenge, A Story of the Otokodaté of Yedo, The Wonderful Adventures of Funakoshi Jiuyémon, The Eta Maiden and the Hatamoto The Ghost of Sakura. LAFCADIO HEARN (1850 - 1904) SELECTED STORIES FROM: "Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things" The Story of Mimi-Nashi Hoichi, Rokuro-Kubi, Jikininki, The Story of Aoyagi, Diplomacy. SELECTED STORIES FROM: "Shadowings" The Screen-Maiden, The Gratitude of the Samébito, The Reconciliation.
Download or read book Samurai Ghosts and Lovers written by Peter Doebler and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalogue accompanying the Dayton Art Institute's special exhibition by the same name (February 22-May 3, 2020). It includes images of all prints from the series in the DAI's collection, along with brief descriptions of each. Director and Curator's comments introduce the volume.
Download or read book How Sex Got Screwed Up The Ghosts that Haunt Our Sexual Pleasure Book One written by Jon Knowles and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 1077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghosts that haunt our sexual pleasure were born in the Stone Age. Sex and gender taboos were used by tribes to differentiate themselves from one another. These taboos filtered into the lives of Bronze and Iron Age men and women who lived in city-states and empires. For the early Christians, all sex play was turned into sin, instilled with guilt, and punished severely. With the invention of sin came the construction of women as subordinate beings to men. Despite the birth of romance in the late middle ages, Renaissance churches held inquisitions to seek out and destroy sex sinners, all of whom it saw as heretics. The Age of Reason saw the demise of these inquisitions. But, it was doctors who would take over the roles of priests and ministers as sex became defined by discourses of crime, degeneracy, and sickness. The middle of the 20th century saw these medical and religious teachings challenged for the first time as activists, such as Alfred Kinsey and Margaret Sanger, sought to carve out a place for sexual freedom in society. However, strong opposition to their beliefs and the growing exploitation of sex by the media at the close of the century would ultimately shape 21st century sexual ambivalence. Volume I of this two-part publication traces the history of sex from the Stone Age to the Enlightenment. Interspersed with ‘personal hauntings’ from his own life and the lives of friends and relatives, Knowles reveals how historical discourses of sex continue to haunt us today. This book is a page-turner in simple and plain language about ‘how sex got screwed up’ for millennia. For Knowles, if we know the history of sex, we can get over it.
Download or read book Isabellae Volume 1 written by Raule and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of feudal Japan, Isabellae Ashiwara, the fiercely independent daughter of a Celtic witch and a samurai master, roams the countryside with her father's ghost at her side, earning her living as a highly-skilled bounty hunter while searching for her long-lost sister, Siuko. Acquiring a misfit crew along the way, Isabellae battles against evil both worldly and supernatural, inching ever closer to discovering the truth of her haunted past and embracing her destiny. From the brilliant minds of Raule and Gabor, Dark Horse Books is thrilled to present the first volume of Isabellae, collecting the first three French volumes in one compendium and offered in English print-format for the first time. Collects French volumes 1-3
Download or read book Holy Ghosts written by Rebecca Suter and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians are a tiny minority in Japan, less than one percent of the total population. Yet Christianity is ubiquitous in Japanese popular culture. From the giant mutant “angels” of the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise to the Jesus-themed cocktails enjoyed by customers in Tokyo’s Christon café, Japanese popular culture appropriates Christianity in both humorous and unsettling ways. By treating the Western religion as an exotic cultural practice, Japanese demonstrate the reversibility of cultural stereotypes and force us to reconsider common views of global cultural flows and East-West relations. Of particular interest is the repeated reappearance in modern fiction of the so-called “Christian century” of Japan (1549–1638), the period between the arrival of the Jesuit missionaries and the last Christian revolt before the final ban on the foreign religion. Literary authors as different as Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, Endō Shūsaku, Yamada Fūtarō, and Takemoto Novala, as well as film directors, manga and anime authors, and videogame producers have all expressed their fascination with the lives and works of Catholic missionaries and Japanese converts and produced imaginative reinterpretations of the period. In Holy Ghosts, Rebecca Suter explores the reasons behind the popularity of the Christian century in modern Japanese fiction and reflects on the role of cross-cultural representations in Japan. Since the opening of the ports in the Meiji period, Japan’s relationship with Euro-American culture has oscillated between a drive towards Westernization and an antithetical urge to “return to Asia.” Exploring the twentieth-century’s fascination with the Christian Century enables Suter to reflect on modern Japan’s complex combination of Orientalism, self-Orientalism, and Occidentalism. By looking back at a time when the Japanese interacted with Europeans in ways that were both similar to and different from modern dealings, fictional representations of the Christian century offer an opportunity to reflect critically not only on cross-cultural negotiation but also more broadly on both Japanese and Western social and political formations. The ghosts of the Christian century that haunt modern Japanese fiction thus prompt us to rethink conventional notions of East-West exchanges, mutual representations, and power relations, complicating our understanding of global modernity.
Download or read book Blossom of the Samurai written by Sedonia Guillone and published by Ai Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The samurai’s only true master is his heart…. For seven years while training for his life as a samurai, Toho Morimasa has been away from Aoki, the beautiful actor who helped him to heal from the trauma of his parents’ brutal murders. Now, nightmares that Aoki is in trouble plague Toho’s sleep, and he makes the journey back from Edo to Kai, no longer wanting to be away from Aoki’s side. Once there, Toho meets the very real source of his nightmares and vows to honor and protect Aoki. When his beloved Aoki is brutally assaulted, will Aoki survive long enough to understand that the love Toho has for him is the love he too has been craving his whole life but doesn’t feel he deserves?
Download or read book The Samurai s Lover written by Alix Nichols and published by Keepers of Xereill. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's pious. She's wicked. He despises her more than he wants her... ...or is it the other way around? Samurai Iyatt Martenn is a devout man with a history of violence. His painful past has shaped his present. Iyatt leads an ascetic life of a martial arts teacher and fights his demons as best he can. Haysi, a belly dancer, is a shameless hedonist if Iyatt ever saw one. When she isn't swaying her hips for strangers, she can be found in her shop, inking tattoos on harlots. Worse, she even enjoys their company. Under normal circumstances, Iyatt would've never spoken to a woman like her. But Haysi has a gift-she can talk to spirits. For Iyatt, she channels his deceased fiancée, who asks for their help in a delicate matter. Forced to work together, Iyatt and Haysi soon find themselves drawn to each other... resisting their attraction... yielding to it. But that doesn't change what Iyatt thinks of Haysi's job or her views. He knows he can fight his sinful passion by denying his body. The question is, can he deny his heart? THE SAMURAI'S LOVER is Book 4 in the Keepers of Xereill paranormal romance / romantic science fiction series. Each novel in this series focuses on a different couple's journey to love. But it also builds on past events and fits into a broader story arc. You will enjoy the series more (and avoid spoilers!) if you start with the prequel, THE CYBORG'S LADY. Recommended reading order: 0.5. The Cyborg's Lady (prequel novella) 1. The Traitor's Bride 2. The Commander's Captive 3. The Dragon's Woman ✦ A Night of Amity (newsletter-exclusive companion novelette) 4. The Samurai's Lover 5. The Vestal's Steward (coming this spring) ➜ Get THE SAMURAI'S LOVER now!
Download or read book Manga Yokai Stories written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers of yokai stories! These classic Japanese ghost stories are based on those written by famed author Lafcadio Hearn between 1890 and 1904. Here, they are retold by award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson, who has garnered a worldwide fan base for his manga adaptations of works of Japanese literature, including such classics as The Book of Five Rings and The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts. Manga Yokai Stories includes: Nuke-kubi: A masterless samurai is trapped in a house haunted by headless goblins The Screen Maiden: A young man develops an obsession with a woman in a painting that almost kills him Corpse Rider: A woman's unburied corpse cannot rest until she has taken her revenge on the man who divorced her A Dead Secret: A young mother terrifies her family when she returns as a ghost, unable to find peace until she puts to rest a shocking secret she has left behind Wilson's skillful adaptation of Hearn's ghostly tales--along with superb manga illustrations from UK-based Japanese artist Inko Ai Takita--make these fascinating stories come to life. This book is in traditional Japanese reading order--from back to front--so that fans and manga lovers can enjoy an authentic reading experience.
Download or read book The Samurai s Secret written by Rei Kimura and published by Riverdale Avenue Books LLC. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a Japanese samurai of impeccable lineage in Edo period Japan get away with being gay? Can he break all the rules of society and get away with it? It all started when an aging samurai took an eccentric interest in a teenage peasant boy who had the unusual gift of writing. One day he brought his son, Lord Okimoto to the peasant’s house. Immediately when their gazes met, the samurai’s son and the teenage peasant, a forbidden love affair formed, an affair which broke all the rules of Japan’s Edo period society and a feudal class so sharply defined that it could cut like a knife. Four centuries later, an ancestor of Lord Okimoto finds a diary written by his peasant lover unfolding the anguished tale of a forbidden life went wrong, leaving behind a trail of broken hearts, shattered dreams and destroyed lives. The tale of the gay samurai who put duty and obligations above his poignant love travels one whole circle to arrive to the 21st century in a final twist to this intriguing story of how two young men dared to break all the rules in conservative unforgiving 18th century Japan.
Download or read book Japanese Ghost Stories written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore - including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. Edited with an introduction by Paul Murray
Download or read book In Ghostly Japan written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Ghostly Japan written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was instrumental in introducing Western readers to Japanese culture and literature. Raised in Dublin and a longtime resident of the United States, the writer, translator, and teacher arrived in Japan in 1890 and spent the rest of his life there. His writings from Japan became his most popular works, and he was famed not only as an interpreter of Japanese myths but also as a teller of strange and macabre tales. This volume offers an eerie collection of Hearn's memorable depictions of the folklore, superstitions, and traditions of old Japan. Its chilling tales of the spirit world are interwoven with nonfiction reflections on the country's idioms, Buddhist proverbs, translations of haiku, and the ritual uses of incense. The spooky stories are populated by a pilgrim who attempts to climb a mountain of skulls, a dying wife who bequeaths her rival a sinister legacy, a ghostly beauty who leaves the world of the dead to revisit her samurai lover, and other mysterious characters from Japanese folklore.
Download or read book Ghosts of the Tsunami written by Richard Lloyd Parry and published by MCD. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Guardian, NPR, GQ, The Economist, Bookforum, Amazon, and Lit Hub The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than eighteen thousand people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan’s greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. There he encountered stories of ghosts and hauntings, and met a priest who exorcised the spirits of the dead. And he found himself drawn back again and again to a village that had suffered the greatest loss of all, a community tormented by unbearable mysteries of its own. What really happened to the local children as they waited in the schoolyard in the moments before the tsunami? Why did their teachers not evacuate them to safety? And why was the unbearable truth being so stubbornly covered up? Ghosts of the Tsunami is a soon-to-be classic intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the accounts of those who lived through it. It tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the struggle to find consolation in the ruins.
Download or read book Samurai Game written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world so dark and seductive, expect nothing less than a triple-cross in this explosive Ghostwalker novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan… In an underground club, a high-ranking public official spends his secret nights indulging in fantasies as exciting as they are depraved. For a seductive employee of the Dungeon, it’s her job to fulfill them. But she’s playing a far more dangerous game—one of blackmail, politics, and murder that reaches into the shadow world of the Ghostwalkers, and the creation of a spectacular, one-of-a-kind new weapon of defense. But when a dictator makes his own catastrophic moves, the Ghostwalkers have no choice but to bring in two major players—a man and woman both driven by passion and revenge. Both expendable. Both with nothing left to lose.
Download or read book Ero Samurai written by David Duff and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ero-Samurai, noted Kyoto raconteur and expatriate David Duff relates his personal experiences with that most exotic and mysterious of creatures, the Japanese woman.
Download or read book Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts written by Ann C. Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about the belief systems of their original audiences and the conditions of theatrical production. As illusions of illusions, they foreground many dramatic themes common to a wide variety of periods and cultures. Arranged chronologically, this collection examines how ghosts represent political change in Athenian culture in three plays by Aeschylus; their function in traditional Japanese drama; the staging of the supernatural in the dramatic liturgy of the early Middle Ages; ghosts within the dramatic works of Middleton, George Peele, and Christopher Marlowe, and the technologies employed in the 18th and 19th centuries to represent the supernatural on stage. Coverage of the dramatic representation of ghosts in the 20th and 21st centuries includes studies of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, plays by Sam Shepard, David Mamet, and Sarah Ruhl, Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog, and the spectral imprint of Shakespeare's ghosts in the Irish drama of Marina Carr, Martin McDonagh, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett. The volume closes by examining three contemporary American indigenous plays by Anishinaabe author, Alanis King.
