Download or read book The Spell of Japan Classic Reprint written by Isabel Anderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Spell of Japan The book therefore is rightly entitled to carry the title of Spell, for it shows Japan at its very best; it makes one understand the glamour which the courteous manners, the elab orate customs, the harmonious costumes, the perfect Art everywhere displayed, cast over all those who have been fortunate enough to visit the Land of the Rising Sun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Spell of Japan The Original Classic Edition written by Isabel Anderson and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Spell of Japan. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Isabel Anderson, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Spell of Japan in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Spell of Japan: Look inside the book: Anderson's book cannot fail to serve as a new and important tie of friendship between the United States and Japan; it will be hailed as an eminently fair presentation of Japanese ideals, and will from its authoritative accuracy and its admirable spirit give great pleasure to all in the best circles of the Empire and serve to do away with many prejudices which ignorance has disseminated among our own people. ...Passengers for Vladivostok left the train at Kharbin, but we were to continue on southward toward pg 4 Changchun, where we expected to find Osame Komori, a Japanese whom we had known for many years, and who was to be my husband's interpreter.
Download or read book A Japanese Miscellany Classic Reprint written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Japanese Miscellany Your Izumo, - the Country of the Eight Cloud Rising, it is very distant. Perhaps it will therefore be difficult for you to promise to return here upon any particular day. But, if we were to know the exact day, we should feel hap pier. We could then prepare a feast of welcome' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Spell of Japan written by Isabel Anderson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Spell of Japan" by Isabel Anderson is a travelogue about a modern-day trip to Korea and Japan. It takes the readers through Japanese-occupied Korea, to the splendors of the Imperial court of Tokyo and the gilded temples of Kyoto. It is an illuminating journey for the armchair traveler, the modern tourist, and amateur historian alike. The book, therefore, is rightly entitled to carry the title of Spell, for it shows Japan at its very best; it makes one understand the glamour which the courteous manners, the elaborate customs, the harmonious costumes, the perfect Art everywhere displayed, cast over all those who have been fortunate enough to visit the Land of the Rising Sun.
Download or read book A Japanese Blossom Classic Reprint written by Onoto Watanna and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Japanese Blossom The children sat in a little semicircle about their grandmother, listening intently as she read to them the last letter from their father in America. Ever since they could remember, his business as a tea merchant had taken him away from Japan on long visits to the foreign countries. His latest absence had continued for three years now, and little Juji - born a short time after his departure - had never seen him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Way of the Gods in Japan Classic Reprint written by Hope Huntly and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Way of the Gods in Japan The desire of the author is to guide her readers faithfully along this time-honoured, half obliterated Way of the Gods, clearing the path with reverent, not iconoclastic hands, because recognising it as the Way by which the Japanese were divinely led to their present mental altitude. The path is traced in threefold aspect - Ethical, Philosophical, and Romantic. The story trends towards a sensational crisis in order to emphasise life-portraits known to the author While resident in the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Matsuyama Mirror Classic Reprint written by Mrs. T. H. James and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Matsuyama Mirror It happened once While the little girl Wags still a baby, that the father was obliged to go to the great 'city, the capital of Japan, upon some business. It was too far for the mother and her little baby to go, so he set out alone, after bidding them good bye, and prom1s1n'g to) bring them home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book It Happened in Japan Classic Reprint written by Albert D'Anethan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from It Happened in Japan Two men, side by side, were slowly pacing the deck of the Empress of India on her outward voyage to japan. A week had almost passed since the boat had sailed from Vancouver, and the extremely bad weather encountered until this afternoon had prevented all but the most hardened good sailors from penetrating from below. Now, however, the wind and sea had somewhat abated, the first ray of sun had brought the storm-tossed and sea-sick from their berths, and the broad decks were soon swarming with passengers of both sexes, whose faces and general demeanour expressed entire satisfaction at their restored liberty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Evolution of a Missionary written by Charlotte B. Deforest and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Evolution of a Missionary: A Biography of John Hyde De Forest, for Thirty-Seven Years Missionary of the American Board, in Japan The efficiency and eminence of a missionary are largely determined by endowment, character, environment, method and relationship to man and to God. In most of these particulars John Hyde DeForest was abundantly gifted and happily circumstanced. God gave him a wise head, a pure hearty a sensitive conscience, a buoyancy of life and a faculty for friendship and love which were fundamental in his life of service. His character, so faithfully portrayed in this volume, bore the marks of the divine graving tool which had fashioned it by the varied experiences of a life unusually susceptible to mental and spiritual influences. Its plasticity was linked with a paradoxical yet unusual firmness; its influence upon others was as communicative and compelling as is the spell cast upon artistic Japan by its symmetrically majestic Fujiyama. Dr. DeForest's life could not have been lived in a more favourable environment. His eye, his brain, his soul were tabul ras ready to be impressed by paradisaic scenery, the chivalrous deeds of mediaeval daimyos and their devoted samurai, the modem miracles of a speedy and victorious renaissance, and the philosophical and spiritual aspirations of his beloved adopted countrymen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Flower of Old Japan written by Alfred Noyes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Flower of Old Japan: A Dim, Strange Tale for All Ages He played with children's beating hearts, And stuck them full of poisoned darts And long green thorns that stabbed and He'd watch until we tried to speak, Then thrust inside his pasty cheek His long, white, slimy tongue And smile at everything we said; And sometimes pat us on the head. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Blossoms From a Japanese Gardens written by Mary Fenollosa and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Blossoms From a Japanese Gardens: A Book of Child-Verses First a dragon. Soft and pliant Swells the red and yellow dough. Like a curious twisted bubble From his pipe they watch it blow. Eyes of bead, and fins of silver, There, 'tis finished, naught to mar. Ah, it's mine! The children clamor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Japanese Nightingale Classic Reprint written by Onoto Watanna and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Japanese Nightingale Out in the bay that the sun had left was a tiny island, and on this a Jap anese business man, who must also have been an artist, had built a tea house and laid out a garden. Such an island! In the sorcerous moon light, one might easily believe it the witch -work of an Oriental Merlin. Running in every direction were nar row jinrikisha roads, which crossed bewildering little creeks, spanned by entrancing bridges. These were round and high, and curved in the centre, and clinging' vines and creeping, nameless flowers crawled up the sides and twined about the tiny steps which ascended to the bridges. After crossing a bridge shaped thus, a straight bridge is forever an outrage to the eye and sense. And all along the beach of this island was pure White sand, which looked weirdly whiter Where the moon beams loitered and played hide-and seek under the tree-shadows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Yotsuya Kwaidan Or O iwa Inari written by James Seguin de Benneville and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Yotsuya Kwaidan, or O'iwa Inari: Retold From the Japanese Originals Their theory, however, finds powerful support in the nature of the Nipponese ghost. The Buddhist ghost does. Not remain on earth. It has its travels and penalties to go through in the nether world, 'or its residence in Paradise, before it begins a new life - somewhere. The Shinto ghost, in the vagueness of Shinto theology, does remain on earth. If of enough importance it is enshrined, and rarely goes abroad, except when carried in proces sion at the time of the temple festival. Otherwise it finds its home in the miniature shrine of the kami-dana or god-shelf. There is a curious confusion of Nipponese thought on this subject; at least among the mass of laity. At the bon-matsuri the dead revisit the scene of their earthly sojourn for the space of three days; and yet the worship of the ikai, or mortuary tablets, the food offerings with ringing of the bell to call the attention of the resident Spirit is a daily rite at the household Buddhist shrine (butsu-dan). When, therefore, the ghost does not conform to these well regulated habits, it is because it is an unhappy ghost. It is then the o'bake /or Bake'mono, the haunting ghost. Either it has be come an unworshipped spirit, or, ow1ng to some atrocious injury in life, it stays to wander the earth, and to secure vengeance on the living perpetrator.' 'in most cases this is effected by the grudge felt or spoken at the last moment of life. The mind, concentrated in its hate and malice at this final crisis, secures to the Spirit a continued and unhappy sojourn among the living, until the ven geance be secured, the grudge satisfied, and the Spirit pacified. There are other unhappy conditions of this revisiting of life's scenes; as when the dead mother returns to nurse her infant, or the dead mistress to console a lover. In the latter case, at least, the expressed affection has a malignant efiect, perhaps pur pose as in the Botan Doro of Sanyfitei Encho, a writer most careffil in observing all the niceties called for by the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book GURPS Japan written by Hunter Johnson and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Back in print after a long hiatus! -- Detailed discussion of Japanese magic and spirits. -- Samurai, ninja, and ronin...
Download or read book The Last Samurai written by Helen DeWitt and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called “remarkable” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an ambitious, colossal debut novel” (Publishers Weekly), Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai is back in print at last Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise? Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.) Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa’s masterpiece Seven Samurai. But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn’t know: his father’s name. At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew. He’ll be punched, sliced, and threatened with retribution. He may not live to see twelve. Or he may find a real samurai and save a mother who thinks boredom a fate worse than death.
Download or read book S seki written by John Nathan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to memorize passages from his novels and he is routinely voted the most important Japanese writer in national polls, he remains less familiar to Western readers than authors such as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and Mishima. In this biography, John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of a great writer laboring to create a remarkably original oeuvre in spite of the physical and mental illness that plagued him all his life. He traces Sōseki’s complex and contradictory character, offering rigorous close readings of Sōseki’s groundbreaking experiments with narrative strategies, irony, and multiple points of view as well as recounting excruciating hospital stays and recurrent attacks of paranoid delusion. Drawing on previously untranslated letters and diaries, published reminiscences, and passages from Sōseki’s fiction, Nathan renders intimate scenes of the writer’s life and distills a portrait of a tormented yet unflaggingly original author. The first full-length study of Sōseki in fifty years, Nathan’s biography elevates Sōseki to his rightful place as a great synthesizer of literary traditions and a brilliant chronicler of universal experience who, no less than his Western contemporaries, anticipated the modernism of the twentieth century.
Download or read book A Guide to Japanese Role Playing Games written by Bitmap Books and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
