Download or read book Tokyo Tales written by Hermann Candahashi and published by tredition. This book was released on 2024-02-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not a conventional travel guide. I would like to invite you to immerse yourself in a city of contrasts and endless facets – welcome to Tokyo, the city of 100 villages. This book takes you on a literary journey from the bustling streets of Shibuya to the serene temples of Asakusa; each neighborhood in this city holds stories waiting to be told. These stories unfold like Tokyo's cherry blossoms in spring. Join me in discovering how a stranger uncovers the art of Zen amid the hustle of the metropolis or how ancient geisha legends persist in the glow of modern neon lights. Each chapter is a window into the diverse life worlds of Tokyo's population. Are you ready to open the doors to the metropolis of 100 villages? Then accompany me on a journey that has embraced me between tradition and modernity, past and present. Experience Tokyo in all its nuances – a book as diverse as the city itself. So, I warmly welcome you to my Tokyo stories. This book takes you on a journey through the bustling streets of the megametropolis Tokyo and at the same time to the hidden treasures of the surrounding villages, as I experienced them. Through the eyes of a stranger who not only admires the breathtaking skyline but also discovers the stories behind the facades of the seemingly endless skyscrapers, I guide you through this foreign world. We explore not only the neon-lit streets but also the heart of the culture in the villages that make up this metropolis. In "Tokyo Stories," the diversity of this fascinating city becomes palpable in all its facets. From the bustling shopping districts to the quiet temples on the outskirts - each place tells its own story. Let yourself be surprised by the contrasts as the bustle of the metropolis meets the serenity of quiet communities, teahouses, and temples. My book is more than just a travel description. It is an exploration of the soul of Tokyo, an invitation to understand the city in its entirety. Through vivid descriptions and compelling stories, you will dive into the cultural diversity that Tokyo has to offer. Get ready for a journey that leads you not only through the streets but also into the hearts of the people who make this city what it is. I aim to build a bridge between the past and the future, between tradition and innovation. Explore the magic of this unique metropolis and let me tell you about the stories hidden behind the skyscrapers and rice terraces. Join me on this unforgettable journey. Are you ready to discover the city of 100 villages? Then follow me. Yours sincerely, Hermann Candahashi

Download or read book Tasty Tales Level 4 Intermediate American English written by Frank Brennan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. A collection of short stories themed around food and drink: a bed and breakfast owner is determined that one of her guests should try her famous 'Full English Breakfast'; a scientist invents an additive that increases peoples' attraction to certain food; a young boy learns to cook with the help of a great uncle and a magic ingredient; and a Japanese master chef must prepare his own last meal. This paperback is in American English. Audio recordings of the text are available at: www.cambridge.org/elt/discoveryreaders/ame Cambridge Experience Readers, previously called Cambridge Discovery Readers, get your students hooked on reading.

Download or read book Mistress Oriku written by Matsutaro Kawaguchi and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a translation of a contemporary Japanese novel set in Meiji-era Japan, this work instructs young people in the arts of love, and helps solve the romantic dilemmas of some of Tokyo's most famous citizens.

Download or read book Tokyo Tales written by Renae Lucas-Hall and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renae Lucas-Hall leads the reader into an enchanting, life-affirming and inspiring world in Tokyo Tales: A Collection of Japanese Short Stories. These fifteen magical stories include a hellish homestay, ghosts, school bullying, a marriage arrangement and the kawaii culture. Read more about Renae Lucas-Hall at www.renaelucashall.com.

Download or read book The Sushi Economy written by Sasha Issenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly acclaimed exploration of sushi’s surprising history, global business, and international allure One generation ago, sushi’s narrow reach ensured that sports fishermen who caught tuna in most of parts of the world sold the meat for pennies as cat food. Today, the fatty cuts of tuna known as toro are among the planet’s most coveted luxury foods, worth hundreds of dollars a pound and capable of losing value more quickly than any other product on earth. So how did one of the world’s most popular foods go from being practically unknown in the United States to being served in towns all across America, and in such a short span of time? A riveting combination of culinary biography, behind-the- scenes restaurant detail, and a unique exploration of globalization’s dynamics, the book traces sushi’s journey from Japanese street snack to global delicacy. After traversing the pages of The Sushi Economy, you’ll never see the food on your plate—or the world around you—quite the same way again.

Download or read book Tales of Old Edo Kaiki written by Robert Weinberg and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan has a long history of weird and supernatural literature, but it has been introduced into English only haphazardly until now. The first volume of a 3-volume anthology covering over two centuries of kaiki literature, including both short stories and manga, from Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari of 1776 to Kyogoku Natsuhiko's modern interpretations of popular tales. Selected and with commentary by Higashi Masao, a recognized researcher and author in the field, the series systemizes and introduces the scope of the field and helps establish it as a genre of its own. This first volume presents a variety of work focusing on pre-modern Japan, and includes one manga.

Download or read book Tasty Tales written by Frank Brennan and published by Ernst Klett Sprachen. This book was released on 2015 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Japanese Fairy Tales written by Yei Theodora Ozaki and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.... In telling these stories in English I have followed my fancy in adding such touches of local color or description as they seemed to need or as pleased me, and in one or two instances I have gathered in an incident from another version. At all times, among my friends, both young and old, English or American, I have always found eager listeners to the beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan, and in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority...

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories written by Jay Rubin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new finds. From Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Yuten Sawanishi's 'Filling Up with Sugar', from Shin'ichi Hoshi's 'Shoulder-Top Secretary' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey', The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy. Curated by Jay Rubin, who has himself freshly translated several of the stories, and introduced by Haruki Murakami, this book will be a revelation to its readers.

Download or read book The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga written by Lynne K. Miyake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga versions of The Tale of Genji use gender, sexuality, and desire to challenge perceptions of reading and readership, morality and ethics, and what is translatable from one culture to another. Lynne K. Miyake shows that, through their girls, ladies, Boy Love, boys and young men, and informational comics remediations of the tale, the manga Genjis visually, narratively, and affectively rework male and female gazes; Miyake reveals how they gently inject humor, eroticize, gender flip, queer, and simultaneously re-inscribe and challenge heteronormative gender norms. The first full-length study of Genji manga, this book analyses these adaptations within manga studies and the historical and cultural moments that fashioned and sustained them. It also interrogates the circumscribed, in-group aristocratic society and the consumer and production practices of the Heian society that come full circle in the manga versions. The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga utilizes western queer, feminist, sexuality and gender theory and Japanese cultural practices to illuminate the ways in which the Genji tale redeploys itself. Yet it also provides much needed context and explanation regarding the charges of appropriation of prepubescent (fe)male and gay bodies and the utilization of (sexual) violence mounted against Genji manga-and manga and anime in general once they went global.

Download or read book Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan written by Noriko T. Reider and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Japanese culture, oni are ubiquitous supernatural creatures who play important roles in literature, lore, and folk belief. Characteristically ambiguous, they have been great and small, mischievous and dangerous, and ugly and beautiful over their long history. Here, author Noriko Reider presents seven oni stories from medieval Japan in full and translated for an English-speaking audience. Reider, concordant with many scholars of Japanese cultural studies, argues that to study oni is to study humanity. These tales are from an era in which many new oni stories appeared for the purpose of both entertainment and moral/religious edification and for which oni were particularly important, as they were perceived to be living entities. They reflect not only the worldview of medieval Japan but also themes that inform twenty-first-century Japanese pop and vernacular culture, including literature, manga, film, and anime. With each translation, Reider includes an introductory essay exploring the historical and cultural importance of the characters and oni manifestations within this period. Offering new insights into and interpretations of not only the stories therein but also the entire genre of Japanese ghost stories, Seven Demon Stories is a valuable companion to Reider’s 2010 volume Japanese Demon Lore. It will be of significant value to folklore scholars as well as students of Japanese culture.

Download or read book Built For Hanging On A post apocalyptic love story written by Steve Vernon and published by Steve Vernon. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It happened just yesterday or perhaps the day before. The bombs were dropped. No one knew why. Maybe a political study was taken into careful consideration. Perhaps a research grant had been involved. A new plan to invigorate the stock market. Whatever the reason, due diligence was undoubtedly done and all aspects were carefully considered. Certainly the motion was passed around the senate a time or two. After all, an election was coming. And then they went ahead and did it. Every vestige of civilization was blown away, save for a few stubborn traces barnacled along the grim fringes of existence. Like say, maybe the Maritimes...

Download or read book Tokyo Central written by Seidenstic and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of Seidensticker, perhaps best know for his translations of modern and classical Japanese novels, including the 11th century Tale of Genji. Seidensticker was introduced to Japan as a young diplomat during the Allied occupation and remained in Tokyo afterwards, befriending many of the luminaries of the Japanese literary scene. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Cook s Journey to Japan written by Sarah Marx Feldner and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ING_08 Review quote

Download or read book The Merchant s Tale written by Simon Partner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan’s 1853 “opening” to the West, he witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the civil war that followed, and the Meiji Restoration’s reforms. The Merchant’s Tale looks through Chūemon’s eyes at the upheavals of this period. In a narrative history rich in colorful detail, Simon Partner uses the story of an ordinary merchant farmer and its Yokohama setting as a vantage point onto sweeping social transformation and its unwitting agents. Chūemon, like most newcomers to Yokohama, came in search of economic opportunity. His story sheds light on vital issues in Japan’s modern history, including the legacies of the Meiji Restoration; the East Asian treaty port system; and the importance of everyday life—food, clothing, medicine, and hygiene—for national identity. Centered on an individual, The Merchant’s Tale is also the story of a place. Created under pressure from aggressive foreign powers, Yokohama was the scene of gunboat diplomacy, a connection to global markets, the birthplace of new lifestyles, and the beachhead of Japan’s modernization. Partner’s history of a vibrant meeting place humanizes the story of Japan’s revolutionary 1860s and their profound consequences for Japanese society and culture.

Download or read book Cool Japan written by Sumiko Kajiyama and published by Museyon. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by local expert Sumiko Kajiyama, Cool Japan is a three-part travel guide that explores the heart of Japanese culture and must-see places from a uniquely Japanese perspective. First, visit Kyoto, where you will discover 1,000 years of history from the ancient love story the Tale of Genji to the traditional tea ceremony. Then head to Tokyo to experience Japan's cutting-edge capital, where the 21st-century kawaii culture collides with landmarks like the Kabuki-za Theater and the ImperialPalace. For a different perspective, venture outside the city to the serene towns of Tohoku, the region largely affected by the 2011 tsunami disaster. Informative, entertaining, and useful, this book is an ideal introduction for any traveler looking for a deeper understanding of Japanese culture, past and present.

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Japan written by Donald H. Shively and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-28 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment in Western literature of the Heian period, the Japanese imperial court's golden age.