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Book A Handbook for Travellers in Central   Northern Japan  Being a Guide to T  ki    Ki  to    zaka  Hakodate  Nagasaki  and Other Cities  the Most Interesting Parts of the Main Island  Ascents of the Principal Mountains  Descriptions of Temples  and Historical Notes and Legends

Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Central Northern Japan Being a Guide to T ki Ki to zaka Hakodate Nagasaki and Other Cities the Most Interesting Parts of the Main Island Ascents of the Principal Mountains Descriptions of Temples and Historical Notes and Legends written by Ernest Mason Satow and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Handbook for Travellers in Central   Northern Japan

Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Central Northern Japan written by Ernest Mason Satow and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn

Download or read book Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn written by Sukehiro Hirakawa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of one of the great interpreters of Japan. The Japanese have always revered Hearn and this book shows the West why he is revered. Experts look at his writings and discuss his integrity as an observer and interpreter of Japan and the Japanese.

Book The T  kaid   Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jilly Traganou
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780415310918
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The T kaid Road written by Jilly Traganou and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comparative study of representations of the Tôkaidô road, the most important route of Japan during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) eras.

Book Bulletin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Boston Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)

Book A Handbook for Travellers in Central   Northern Japan     With Maps and Plans

Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Central Northern Japan With Maps and Plans written by Ernest Mason Satow and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hugh Cortazzi   Collected Writings

Download or read book Hugh Cortazzi Collected Writings written by Hugh Cortazzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special areas: biographies, history, cultural exchange, arts, business and foreign affairs.

Book The Chrysanthemum

Download or read book The Chrysanthemum written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Travel  Collecting  and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth Century Paris

Download or read book Travel Collecting and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth Century Paris written by Ting Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines a history of contact between modern Europe and East Asia through three collectors: Henri Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt. Drawing on a wealth of material including European travelogues of the East and Asian reports of the West, Ting Chang explores the politics of mobility and cross-cultural encounter in the nineteenth century. This book takes a new approach to museum studies and institutional critique by highlighting what is missing from the existing scholarship -- the foreign labors, social relations, and somatic experiences of travel that are constitutive of museums yet left out of their histories. The author explores how global trade and monetary theory shaped Cernuschi's collection of archaic Chinese bronze. Exchange systems, both material and immaterial, determined Guimet's museum of religious objects and Goncourt's private collection of Asian art. Bronze, porcelain, and prints articulated the shifting relations and frameworks of understanding between France, Japan, and China in a time of profound transformation. Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris thus looks at what Asian art was imagined to do for Europe. This book will be of interest to scholars and students interested in art history, travel imagery, museum studies, cross-cultural encounters, and modern transnational histories.

Book Buddhism as a Religion

Download or read book Buddhism as a Religion written by Heinrich Friedrich Hackmann and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1895 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bookseller

Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

Book The Spectator

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Book Early Japanese Images

Download or read book Early Japanese Images written by Terry Bennett and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating Japanese photography book features over 140 images taken between 1853 and 1905 by the most important local and foreign photographers then working in Japan. Almost one-fourth of the images are hand colored, superb examples of a rich art form long since vanished. The Japan of this book too has disappeared, but author and compiler Terry Bennett has put together a unique portrait of the country at perhaps its most decisive turning point, a nation about to abandon its traditional ways and enter the modern age. Important features of Early Japanese Images include the following: A historical overview of the years 1853-1912 The story of early Western photographers in Japan The story of early Japanese photographers Over 100 images reproduced in original sepia tones Over 40 images reproduced as originally handcolored An invaluable index that identifies the photographers

Book Empire of Dogs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aaron Skabelund
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2011-12-15
  • ISBN : 0801463238
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Empire of Dogs written by Aaron Skabelund and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming nationally and even internationally famous for his purported loyalty. A year before his death in 1935, the city of Tokyo erected a statue of Hachiko outside the station. The story of Hachiko reveals much about the place of dogs in Japan's cultural imagination. In the groundbreaking Empire of Dogs, Aaron Herald Skabelund examines the history and cultural significance of dogs in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japan, beginning with the arrival of Western dog breeds and new modes of dog keeping, which spread throughout the world with Western imperialism. He highlights how dogs joined with humans to create the modern imperial world and how, in turn, imperialism shaped dogs' bodies and their relationship with humans through its impact on dog-breeding and dog-keeping practices that pervade much of the world today. In a book that is both enlightening and entertaining, Skabelund focuses on actual and metaphorical dogs in a variety of contexts: the rhetorical pairing of the Western "colonial dog" with native canines; subsequent campaigns against indigenous canines in the imperial realm; the creation, maintenance, and in some cases restoration of Japanese dog breeds, including the Shiba Inu; the mobilization of military dogs, both real and fictional; and the emergence of Japan as a "pet superpower" in the second half of the twentieth century. Through this provocative account, Skabelund demonstrates how animals generally and canines specifically have contributed to the creation of our shared history, and how certain dogs have subtly influenced how that history is told. Generously illustrated with both color and black-and-white images, Empire of Dogs shows that human-canine relations often expose how people—especially those with power and wealth—use animals to define, regulate, and enforce political and social boundaries between themselves and other humans, especially in imperial contexts.

Book List of the Books of Reference in the Reading Room of the British Museum

Download or read book List of the Books of Reference in the Reading Room of the British Museum written by William Brenchley Rye and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Storied Sage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Micah L. Auerback
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-12-07
  • ISBN : 022628638X
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book A Storied Sage written by Micah L. Auerback and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the modern transformation of Japanese Buddhist concepts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, specifically the notion of the historical Buddhai.e., the prince of ancient Indian descent who abandoned his wealth and power to become an awakened being. Since Buddhism arrived in Japan in the sixth century, the historical figure of the Buddha has repeatedly disappeared from view and returned, always in different forms and to different ends. Micah Auerback offers the first account of the changing fortunes of the Japanese Buddha, following the course of early modern and modern producers and consumers of both high and low culture, who found novel uses for the Buddha s story outside the confines of the Buddhist establishment. Auerback challenges the still-prevalent concept that Buddhism had grown ossified and irrelevant during Japan s early modernity, and complicates the image of Japanese Buddhism as a sui generis tradition within the Asian Buddhist world. Auerback also links the later Buddhist tradition in Japan to its roots on the Continent, and argues for the relevance of attention to narrative and the historical imagination in the study of Buddhist Asia more broadly conceived. And, Auerback engages the question of secularization by examining the after life of the Buddha in the hagiographic literature, demonstrating that the late Japanese Buddha did not, as is widely thought, fade into a ghost of its former self, but rather underwent a complete transformation and reincarnation. The book thus joins the larger discussion of secularization in modernity beyond Buddhism, Japanese religions, and the Asian continent."