Download or read book Irezumi written by Willem R. van Gulik and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1982 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Margin written by Nai'an Shi and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Suikoden III Volume 1 written by Aki Shimizu and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Lightfellow knows the horror of war - her father succumbed in the flames of battle when she was a little girl. Now, wanting to become a soldier like him, she enters a military school and becomes a knight after graduating.
Download or read book Suikoden V written by BradyGames and published by Bradygames. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BradyGames' Suikoden V Official Strategy Guide includes the following: A comprehensive walkthrough of the entire game. Detailed area maps pinpointing the location of every item to be discovered. In-depth listing of 108 Stars of Destiny. Expert boss strategies. Extensive enemy data. Platform: PlayStation 2 Genre: Role-Playing Game This product is available for sale in North America only.
Download or read book Suikoden III Volume 4 written by Aki Shimizu and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the forest, Chris and Nash venture to the village of the Alma Kinan clan. Once there, Chris meets the spirit medium Yun, who is about to be sacrificed by the Alma Kinan in order to open a sacred seal. Will Chris be able to discover what lies ahead before her past is sealed for good?
Download or read book Breath of Fire written by Capcom and published by Udon Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic Breath of Fire series stands out as Capcom's most acclaimed foray into the fantasy RPG genre. Now, gamers can revisit the many worlds and characters of this beloved franchise through it's wonderful characters and visuals. Breath of Fire: Official Complete Works collects the artwork of all five games in the the series, including character designs, rough sketches, game covers, pinups, character profiles, creator commentary, and more!
Download or read book Of Brigands and Bravery written by Inge Klompmakers and published by Brill Hotei. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st monograph in English on the stunning series of woodblock prints 'One hundres & eight heroes of the Suikoden'. Many of the designs were and still are a source of inspriation in Japanese tatooing and supplementary information on this subject is also included in the book.
Download or read book Suikoden III Volume 2 written by Aki Shimizu and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2004-07-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a young girl, Chris Lightfellow lost her father to the flames of war. Following in his footsteps, Chris entered military school and trained to become a knight. But when Chris' commanding officer is killed in battle, will Chris come into her own as a knight ... or follow her father's path to the grave?"--Cover, P. [4].
Download or read book Suikoden written by Ian Osborne and published by Prima Games. This book was released on 1997 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get all the devastating strategies and powerful magic you need to vanquish the legions of the evil Imperial Army! Assemble unbeatable battle formations Win one-on-one and in army vs. army mode Recruit the best volunteers for the Liberation Army Keep the Soul Eater rune from the clutches of the evil Emperor's magician Construct an impenetrable castle fortress to house your army The saga of the Scarlet Moon Empire is written in blood. Don't let it be written in yours!About the Author Prima Creative Services is a team of gaming experts that has produced over 60 strategy guides for Prima Publishing, and collectively has two decades of experience in the gaming magazine field.
Download or read book The Japanese Period Film written by S.A. Thornton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the history of the Japanese period film and proposes that a powerful relationship exists between the past and present in Japan's narrative tradition. The first section of the book analyzes the form and function of the Japanese period film, describing the unique iconography and characteristics of films set in the past. The author also examines how the period film has allowed Japanese filmmakers to circumvent government censorship by serving as a rhetorical device with which they can explore contemporary concerns through a criticism of the past. The final section of the book contains chapters that focus on the narrative in Japanese epic, religion, theater, and modern popular literature. A complete filmography and bibliography are included.
Download or read book Irezumi written by Willem R. van Gulik and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1982 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction written by William C. Hedberg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into Japan in the early seventeenth century, it became a ubiquitous source of inspiration for translations, adaptations, parodies, and illustrated woodblock prints. There is no work of Chinese fiction more important to both the development of early modern Japanese literature and the Japanese imagination of China than The Water Margin. In The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction, William C. Hedberg investigates the reception of The Water Margin in a variety of early modern and modern Japanese contexts, from eighteenth-century Confucian scholarship and literary exegesis to early twentieth-century colonial ethnography. He examines the ways Japanese interest in Chinese texts contributed to new ideas about literary canons and national character. By constructing an account of Japanese literature through the lens of The Water Margin’s literary afterlives, Hedberg offers an alternative history of East Asian textual culture: one that focuses on the transregional dimensions of Japanese literary history and helps us rethink the definition and boundaries of Japanese literature itself.
Download or read book Suikoden Tactics written by BradyGames (Firm) and published by Bradygames. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BradyGames' Suikoden Tactics Official Strategy Guide includes the following: A comprehensive walkthrough of the entire game. Detailed listing of the over 80 controllable characters, weapons and items. Expert boss strategies to defeat even the toughest boss. In-depth bestiary. Game secrets revealed! Platform: PlayStation 2 Genre: Role-Playing GameThis product is available for sale in North America only.
Download or read book Super Power Spoony Bards and Silverware written by Dominic Arsenault and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look at how the Super Nintendo Entertainment System—and a resistance to innovation—took Nintendo from industry leadership to the margins of videogaming. This is a book about the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that is not celebratory or self-congratulatory. Most other accounts declare the Super NES the undisputed victor of the “16-bit console wars” of 1989–1995. In this book, Dominic Arsenault reminds us that although the SNES was a strong platform filled with high-quality games, it was also the product of a short-sighted corporate vision focused on maintaining Nintendo’s market share and business model. This led the firm to fall from a dominant position during its golden age (dubbed by Arsenault the “ReNESsance”) with the NES to the margins of the industry with the Nintendo 64 and GameCube consoles. Arsenault argues that Nintendo’s conservative business strategies and resistance to innovation during the SNES years explain its market defeat by Sony’s PlayStation. Extending the notion of “platform” to include the marketing forces that shape and constrain creative work, Arsenault draws not only on game studies and histories but on game magazines, boxes, manuals, and advertisements to identify the technological discourses and business models that formed Nintendo’s Super Power. He also describes the cultural changes in video games during the 1990s that slowly eroded the love of gamer enthusiasts for the SNES as the Nintendo generation matured. Finally, he chronicles the many technological changes that occurred through the SNES's lifetime, including full-motion video, CD-ROM storage, and the shift to 3D graphics. Because of the SNES platform’s architecture, Arsenault explains, Nintendo resisted these changes and continued to focus on traditional gameplay genres.
Download or read book The Yakuza in Popular Media written by Frank Jacob and published by Büchner-Verlag. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The yakuza, Japan's traditional gangsters, are famous, especially outside Japan, where the country's criminal underworld ranks next to sushi or Godzilla when it comes to their respective fame and popularity. However, in popular media the images of the Japanese gangster vary, ranging from chivalrous Robin Hood-like characters, to violent mobsters without honor and dignity. The present volume addresses these differences, i.e. the way yakuza are presented in Japanese and Western popular media. Films and autobiographical novels, inspired by historical events or personal experiences, but also by existent and sometimes even expected stereotypes, therefore often already represent a specific image of the Japanese mafia that is more like an artificial construct than actual reality. The contributions in this book consequently intend to discuss the images of the Japanese yakuza in popular media to offer a first insight into a very important yet so far understudied topic related to the history of and existent narratives within Japan's popular culture.
Download or read book Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context written by Nana Sato-Rossberg and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expands the range and depth of translation studies scholarship by looking at the Japanese culture of translation, from the pre-Meiji era to the modern day.
Download or read book Ape Escape 2 Official Strategy Guide written by Tim Bogenn and published by Bradygames. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BradyGames' Ape Escape 2 Official Strategy Guidefeatures a step-by-step walkthrough to guide players through every environment. Coverage of each delinquent monkey, and all mini-games. Expert boss tactics, plus complete item and vehicle lists. Game secrets revealed, and more!
