Download or read book Geisha Hands written by Lauren Masterson and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geisha Hands is a fully illustrated historical fiction novel that brings geisha culture to life in a whole new way. Yukie is a maiko on the verge of her erikae, the turning of the collar ceremony to become a full geisha. But the competitive nature of the hanamachi and glamour of working as a top ranked geisha have Yukie feeling anything but certain about her future. Join Yukie on her journey to find her place in the rankings and possibly find love thanks to her sister and mentor, full geisha Katsu.
Download or read book Geisha written by Stanley B. Burns and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Geisha and courtesans intrigue and fascinate Westerners. During the mid-19th century, Japan opened its doors to the world and became an essential destination for travellers. Geisha: A Photographic History 1872-1912 documents the intimate life and culture of this 19th century icon. It portrays the artists of these images in a cultural reality created by staged studio photography, private scenes and rare outdoor images. Essential viewing.
Download or read book Jian written by Eric Van Lustbader and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Ninja comes the first “authentic and engrossing” thriller in the series featuring Jake Maroc (Los Angeles Times). Jake Maroc, a top agent for the secret US government agency known as the Quarry, is a martial arts expert on a quest for vengeance. Nichiren, Jake’s deadliest adversary, is a cold-blooded assassin with a deadly secret. And Shi Zilin is a Communist minister, a cunning survivor of turmoil. But only one can be the Jian: the ultimate master of strength and wisdom. Like stones in wei qi, the Chinese game of strategy, four ancient pieces of jade determine their fate. All three men are part of a grand scheme, but as the Communist Chinese, the KGB, and the Americans maneuver for position, only the Jian will determine who controls Hong Kong, the glittering gateway to China. From the author of the Nicholas Linnear novels and the continuing adventures of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne, this thriller is “brilliant . . . Perhaps no other piece of fiction since Shogun illuminates the mind, machinations, and mores of Eastern peoples with the style and intensity of Jian” (The Miami Herald).
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Download or read book The Honorable Miss Moonlight written by Onoto Watanna and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Honorable Miss Moonlight" by Onoto Watanna. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Japanese Art of Sex written by Jina Bacarr and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to use the ancient and modern Japanese sexual practices of court ladies, courtesans and geisha to spark romance and deliver an erotic "floating world" of pleasure to you and your partner.
Download or read book 50 Ways of Loving written by Luciano Bivar and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After learning about his inevitable fate, Rick’s quest in life becomes to seize every second he has left, reconnecting with his innermost feelings, his children, and a new love. In doing so, Rick generates within us a passionate and blazing fire to live, to love, and to be loved, always keeping in mind our own inevitable fates.
Download or read book The Woman s Hand written by Paul Gordon Schalow and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has a dual purpose. It aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women's writing and to present cross-cultural interpretations of Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature.
Download or read book Finger on the Pulse written by Erina Booker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey through poetic wonderment begins as you open the book and the overwhelming beauty of it encompasses the mind of the reader. This book is extremely well presented with photography, graphics and a painting that will dazzle the mind. The poetry comes from the innermost thoughts of Erina Booker. She is an Australian born author with a magnificent connection to the poetic word. This piece of work will delight any poetry reader.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Geisha written by Arthur Golden and published by Longman. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut" ("Newsweek"), "Memoirs of a Geisha" is now released in a movie tie-in edition.
Download or read book In The Arms of the Sheikh written by Sophie Weston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bridesmaid—and the best man! Natasha Lambert is a stylish career girl who's horrified by what she has to wear as her best friend's bridesmaid! Worse, the best man is Kazim al Saraq—an infuriatingly charming sheikh with a dazzling wit and an old-fashioned take on romance. He's determined to win Natasha's heart—and she's terrified he might succeed…. What Natasha doesn't know is that she's in danger from more than just her rioting emotions—and Kazim will do anything to protect her. He'd even risk his life for her…
Download or read book Geisha written by Mineko Iwasaki and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kyoto geisha describes her initiation into an okiya at the age of four, the intricate training that made up most of her education, her successful career, and the traditions surrounding the geisha culture.
Download or read book Advertisements for Myself written by Norman Mailer and published by Odyssey Editions. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advertisements for Myself, a diverse and freewheeling tour through Mailer’s early career, covers the many subjects with which he’d grapple for the rest of his life: sex, race, politics, literature, and the systems of power that shape American life. There are lists, interviews, poems, confessions, postscripts, two Tables of Contents (one chronological, one thematic), undergraduate short stories, fragments from a one-act play—and of course, Mailer’s classic, groundbreaking essays, including “The White Negro (Superficial Reflections on the Hipster)”, perhaps Mailer’s most prescient early polemic, and “Mind of an Outlaw”, which lends its name to Mailer’s latest, and first posthumous, collection. A playful, unclassifiable snapshot of American culture at the end of the fifties, Advertisements for Myself, is also a cornerstone of Mailer’s long and prolific career: “In this volume,” declared The New York Times in 1959, “Mr. Mailer, at 36, shows once again that he is the most versatile if not the most significant talent of his generation.”
Download or read book Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century written by Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not until Kawabata Yasunari won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature that the average Western reader became aware of contemporary Japanese literature. A few translations of writings by Japanese women have appeared lately, yet the West remains largely ignorant of this wide field. In this book Sachiko Schierbeck profiles the 104 female winners of prestigious literary prizes in Japan since the beginning of the century. It contains summaries of their selected works, and a bibliography of works translated into Western languages from 1900 to 1993. These works give insight into the minds and hearts of Japanese women and draw a truer picture of the conditions of Japanese community life than any sociological study would present. Schierbeck's 104 biographies constitute a useful reference work not only to students of literature but to anyone with an interest in women's studies, history or sociology.
Download or read book New Chronicles of Yanagibashi and Diary of a Journey to the West written by Ryuhoku Narushima and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
