Download or read book Sayo written by Sherry Derr-Wille and published by Rogue Phoenix Press. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an untried priest, Sayo learns he is to be like no other priest before him. His man god father, Zandar, he learns the new language of writing. He also learns he will find the joy of his heart and know of the love that surpasses any others. Noya is but a child when her parents die and she is forced into a life of servitude as a slave to the high priestess, Dostra. At the urging of the man god, Zandar, she becomes part of miracle changing Sayo’s body from boy to man. From that moment on, she relies on him to become her protector and teacher in the art of healing.
Download or read book Autobiography of a Geisha written by Sayo Masuda and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glamorous world of Kyoto's geisha is familiar to many readers but Sayo Masuda's tale tells a different story, one that bears little resemblance to the elegant geisha quarters frequented by illustrious patrons. Masuda was a geisha at a rural hot-spring
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Download or read book Seeing with Music written by Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Simon Ottenberg and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of his ongoing study of the aesthetic world of the Limba of Sierra Leone, anthropologist Simon Ottenberg met three men from Wara Wara Bafodea chiefdom who played an instrument called the kututeng, known elsewhere in Africa as the mbira and sometimes in the West as the thumb piano. Each of the three was blind, poor, unmarried, and childless in a society where children bring status and where musicianship is not a standard role for the blind. Each man's life experiences had influenced the way he performed Kututeng, a traditional but changing form of music. In this book, Ottenberg approaches Limba Kututeng music through the lives of these three musicians--Sayo Kamara, Muctaru Mansaray, and Marehu Mansaray. He looks at their different styles of performance, the social settings in which they play, the meanings of their song texts, and the relationships between their musical form and other Limba arts. Ottenberg filters his analysis through the concepts of personhood and agency: he is concerned with the actions and experiences of individuals within a larger cultural structure, with the way people act to maintain or re-create their culture and society as they go about their everyday business. By examining the lives and music of these three men, he is able to show how each one has been an agent for either innovation or stability in Kututeng music in this Limba chiefdom. Throughout the book, Ottenberg attempts to let the musicians' voices and personalities be heard and seen. He believes that looking at music and performance through their eyes, rather than solely through the anthropologist's organized categories, offers a useful alternative way of understanding how music is practiced, responded to, and changed by individuals. At the same time, Ottenberg makes readers aware of his own agency--the effects his presence, personality, and life experiences had on his fieldwork. Kututeng music is not an ancient tradition in Limba country, or in Sierra Leone in general, but dates to the early twentieth century. In recent years it has begun to change in response to the popularity of other musical forms in Sierra Leone. Ottenberg shows effectively how these three men have helped reformulate the nature of Kututeng in the chiefdom capital town, giving it a new vitality that is consistent with the aesthetic values of the Limba world.
Download or read book Seirei Gensouki Spirit Chronicles Volume 3 written by Yuri Kitayama and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Â The secret of Rio's birth is revealed in his parents' hometown! Â After bidding farewell to his comfortable life in the village of the spirit folk, Rio finally reaches his destination: his parents' homeland, the Yagumo region. He arrives in a small village in the country of Karasuki, where he has a fateful encounter with his paternal grandmother, Yuba, and his older cousin, Ruri. After being told that his parents' past cannot be revealed until just the right moment, Rio decides to remain in the village for the time being, and spends his time devising ways to improve the village's quality of life!
Download or read book A Gathering of Spirits Japan s Ghost Story Tradition written by Patrick Drazen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prepare for a sampling of Japanese ghosts and spirits, from sources that include the worlds oldest novel, the urban legends of contemporary Japanese schoolchildren, movies both classic and modern, anime, manga, and more." For hundreds of years Japan has lived in a reality consisting of the real world and the spirit world; sometimes the wall between the two worlds gets thin enough for spirits to cross over. In such a reality, ghost stories have been popular for centuries. Patrick Drazen, author of "Anime Explosion", looks at these stories: old and new, scary or funny or sad, looking at common themes and the reasons for their popularity. This book uses one Japanese ghost story tradition: the "hyaku monogatari" (hundred stories). In the old tradition, people tell each other one hundred ghost stories in one sitting. These hundred tales run from folklore to cartoons, but all are designed to send chills up the spine ...
Download or read book The Ledgend Of Fire Horse Woman written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2004-10-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of Sayo, born under the disastrous sign of the Fire Horse, who comes to America for an arranged marriage and years later is imprisoned with her family in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Download or read book Department of the Army Pamphlet written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Round Tree written by Sherry Derr-Wille and published by Rogue Phoenix Press. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Anthropology professor, Jocelyn Grant, Jaycee to her friends, meets her idol, Dr. Evan Clark, she knows she’s going to support his archaeological dig both financially and by volunteering to work it for a summer. Even though she gets flack from the head of the university, her mind is made up. Jaycee confuses Evan. She’s a college professor, living in student housing, and yet she can make a large donation to his floundering archaeological dig. She also plans to spend the summer working with him. Something seems off to him. When Jaycee arrives, Evan is immediately taken with her. When she starts hearing voices and having visions, he knows she can be important to him in more ways than one.
Download or read book Pamphlet Dept of the Army written by United States Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Divorce in Japan written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social, legal, and intellectual history of divorce in Japan over the last four centuries, during much of which Japan had one of the highest divorce rates in the world.
Download or read book Harima Fudoki written by Edwina Palmer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harima Fudoki, dated to 714CE, is one of Japan’s earliest extant written records. It is a rich account of the people, places, natural resources and stories in the Harima region of western Japan. Produced by the government as a tool for Japan’s early state formation, Harima Fudoki includes important myths of places and gods from a different perspective to the contemporaneous ‘national’ chronicles. This document is an essential primary source for all who are interested in ancient Japan. In this new critical edition, Palmer draws upon recent research into the archaeology, history, orality and literature of ancient Japan to reinterpret this hitherto little-known document. Palmer’s insightful commentary contextualizes the Harima tales for the first time in English.
Download or read book Rebel Skies written by Ann Sei Lin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Sei Lin's enchanting and action-packed debut, first in a series, will sweep readers away to an aerial world of magic, danger and political intrigue. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Lim, Kalynn Bayron and the films of Studio Ghibli. Kurara has never known any other life than being a servant onboard the Midori, a flying ship serving the military elite of the Mikoshiman Empire, a vast realm of floating cities. Kurara also has a secret — she can make folded paper figures come to life with a flick of her finger. But when the Midori is attacked and Kurara's secret turns out to be a power treasured across the empire, a gut-wrenching escape leads her to the gruff Himura, who takes her under his wing. Under Himura's tutelage, and with the grudging support and friendship of his crew, Kurara learns to hunt shikigami — wild paper spirits sought after by the Princess of Mikoshima. But what does the princess really want with the shikigami? Are they merely enchanted figures without will or thought, or are they beings with souls and minds of their own? As fractures begin to appear both across the empire and within Kurara's understanding of herself, Kurara will have to decide who she can trust. Her fate, and the fate of her friends — and even the world — may rest on her choice. And time is running out.
Download or read book The Love of A Silver Fox written by and published by Seki City Board of Education. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of Seki City folktales called “The Love of a Silver Fox” became very popular in Seki when originally published in Japanese. Readership and popularity has since spread. This collection was created by local writers who have studied the legends, old tales and fairy tales about and relating to Seki. The writers wrote down the stories which have passed from generation to generation orally in Seki since long ago. This time, in order to help educate our children who live in an international society, a five-volume series of the “Love of Silver Fox” collection has been published in English… To make this five-volume series, Mr. Darvin Babiuk, who worked for Seki City Hall as an Assistant English Teacher (AET) from 1991-1994, tackled the problem of writing an English verstion that Japanese students of English could understand…
Download or read book Three Days in the Life of an African Christian Villager written by Jim Harries and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Days in the Life of an African Christian Villager While sitting reflectively watching the smoke emerging from his wife’s kitchen, this African villager recounts his thoughts and observations on just three days of village life. On Friday, his boss tries to deal with a fall in profit margins of the company he works for. Saturday’s account explains some of the intrigues surrounding just another village funeral. Village Christianity becomes the focus of Sunday. Read this intriguing little diary, a close literal translation from an original in Dholuo (of western Kenya), to begin to acquire fascinating insights into contemporary village life as an African Christian man. This book is suitable to be used as a part of courses on missions, African Christianity and culture, development and intercultural communication at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Download or read book NOVA written by Adrian Rose and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian grew up in Greendale, Wisconsin. She graduated from Greendale High School in 2013. Growing up was tough for her, both at school and at home. She was always a quiet and shy girl, who didn’t have a lot of friends growing up. She tended to distance herself from others and kept her thoughts to herself. She started writing in her Sophomore year of high school, which became her outlet to let her thoughts be free. She now resides in Minnesota with her partner, who has become her biggest support and influence. Nova is her first book, which is influenced highly on her interest in dragons. She is a fan of Japanese anime and manga, which has influenced in Japan being the main setting of Nova.
Download or read book Cebuano for Beginners written by Maria V. R. Bunye and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philippines series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.
