Download or read book Utsuwa written by Kylie Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A piece must be practical enough to be used every day. It must be crafted at its place of origin, using traditional techniques and materials. And it must be handmade. Japanese craft has long been revered for its quality and beauty, and skilled craftwork remains an important part of Japanese life. 'Utsuwa', meaning 'for everyday use', embodies the ethos of handmaking in Japan, where handcrafted wares must be as practical as they are beautiful. This book takes us behind the scenes into the private studios of some of Japan's most exciting artisans to reveal stories of material, method, place and culture. It guides us through quiet galleries and colourful marketplaces, where the provenance of a piece is central to its story. Utsuwa is a love letter to the makers and sellers, and to all those who share the Japanese reverence for tradition and beauty.
Download or read book The Dawn of the Witch 6 light novel written by Kakeru Kobashiri and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saybil and his friends arrived in the New World under the flag of diplomacy, but, unable to reconcile their worldviews, the two sides are now at war! Zero has created a city of ice atop the ocean waves to house any refugees who seek freedom from the New World's oppressive class system-but when Utsuwa, daughter of the supreme ruler Danna Ryl, joins their number, the conflict becomes graver than ever. The girl wishes only to live, but her death is paramount for Danna Ryl's cause. An assault on the Forbidden Land, a great black dragon in the sky, and-the Staff of Ludens, broken?! The Abyss Sorcerer, the Dawn Witch, and all the rest will stop at nothing to halt the reign of terror that has gripped the New World for so long. But what will be the cost of peace…? At last, the stunning climax to the hit series set in the high fantasy world of Grimoire of Zero!
Download or read book The Dawn of the Witch 5 light novel written by Kakeru Kobashiri and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saybil has spent the last three years holed up in the Forbidden Library working on his magic potions. And thanks to his work, Zero's dream of a world where anyone can use magic is on its way to becoming a reality, as the potions spreading throughout the Great Continent give even non-magic users access to the beneficial powers of sorcery. Now, however, illegal potions are making their way to market-seemingly produced by a mysterious visitor named Har Bell, who comes from an unknown land across the fabled Ocean of Death. Saybil, Hort, and Kudo join an elite party to seek out this New World, which, despite the advanced state of their sorcery, is suffering under the twin scourges of a mana shortage and a brutal class system. Our heroes must cross the Ocean of Death and face a world of unknowns in their quest to help Har Bell save her people!
Download or read book Inspector Imanishi Investigates written by Seicho Matsumoto and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim’s identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word “kameda.” Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to investigate—and runs up against a blank wall. Months pass in fruitless questioning, in following up leads, until the case is closed, unsolved. But Imanishi is dissatisfied, and a series of coincidences lead him back to the case. Why did a young woman scatter pieces of white paper out of the window of a train? Why did a bar girl leave for home right after Imanishi spoke to her? Why did an actor, on the verge of telling Imanishi something important, drop dead of a heart attack? What can a group of nouveau young artists possibly have to do with the murder of a quiet and “saintly” provincial old ex-policemen? Inspector Imanishi investigates.
Download or read book Of the Red the Light and the Ayakashi Vol 1 written by HaccaWorks* and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the curious town of Utsuwa, where spirits known as ayakashi roam, lives Yue, a sheltered boy born and raised at the local shrine. On the night of the winter festival, Yue descends the mountain for the first time and encounters two boys. Though Yue wants nothing more than to become friends with his new acquaintances, Mikoto, the master of the shrine who rules over Utsuwa, declares that Yue must choose one of the boys as his "Meal"! Faced with this incomprehensible decision, what will Yue do?!
Download or read book Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance written by David Jortner and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance is a collection of sixteen essays on Japanese theatre, including historical overviews of twentieth century theatre, analyses of specific productions and individuals, and consideration of the intercultural nature of modern Japanese theatre. Also included is a new translation of a 'Superkyogen' play.
Download or read book Sushi Master written by Nick Sakagami and published by Chartwell. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to source a variety of fish and make delicious sushi at home with the recipes and comprehensive techniques and fundamentals in Sushi Master.
Download or read book A Savitri Dictionary written by Rand Hicks and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri M.P. Pandit said of this work “Readers will be grateful to Rand Hicks for his labour of love in compiling these words in Savitri, used in a special sense, and presenting them dictionary-wise to facilitate easy reference. He has also added words that are likely to hold up a reader with an average knowledge of English.” The standard format used by Rand in this work is to set forth the word in alphabetica order, provide a reference for where in the text it appears (book, canto, line) and then to provide the definition within the context of the text. Rand Hicks is the guiding light at the Integral Knowledge Study Center in Pensacola, Florida. In his own quiet and persistent way, he provides an atmosphere of dedication and focus that uplifts those who come in contact with him. He recognized the need to aid those reading Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol to enter into the precise and subtle uses of language that Sri Aurobindo employs, and to that end he developed a dictionary format with these terms defined briefly.
Download or read book Rethinking Japan Vol 1 written by Adriana Boscaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.
Download or read book Palm of the Hand Stories written by Yasunari Kawabata and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of short stories written over the entire span of Kawabata's career. These stories, he felt, represented the essence of his art and reflect his abiding interest in the miniature, the wisp of plot reduced to the essential. --Adapted from publisher description.
Download or read book Hanbo written by John C. Goss and published by Imaginator Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Sake Tokyo written by Yukari Sakamoto and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese cuisine.
Download or read book A Woman with Demons written by Yuzo Ota and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-06-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few English biographies about Japanese subjects provide such an intimate look into the subject's inner life.
Download or read book Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh written by B. Baird and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hijikata Tatsumi's explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an art form of contrasts, by turns shocking and serene. Since then, though interest has grown exponentially, and people all over the world are drawn to butoh's ability to enact paradox and contradiction, audiences are less knowledgeable about the contributions and innovations of the founder of butoh. Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh traces the rollicking history of the creation and initial maturation of butoh, and locates Hijikata's performances within the intellectual, cultural, and economic ferment of Japan from the sixties to the eighties.
Download or read book Sens written by Frank Gibney and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2007 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of letters written by a cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences and opinions of the Pacific war. This work provides the general reader and the specialist with insights on a subject deliberately swept under the rug, both by Japan's citizenry and its government.
Download or read book Netsuke written by Rikki Ducornet and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruled by his hunger for erotic encounters, a deeply wounded psychoanalyst seduces both patients and strangers with equal heat. Driven to compartmentalize his life, the doctor attempts to order and contain his lovers as he does his collection of rare netsuke, the precious miniature sculptures gifted to him by his wife. This riveting exploration of one psychoanalyst’s abuse of power unearths the startling introspection present within even the darkest heart.
Download or read book A Quiet Place written by Seicho Matsumoto and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A master crime writer . . . Seicho Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society."—The New York Times Book Review "A stellar psychological thriller with a surprising and immensely satisfying resolution that flows naturally from the book’s complex characterizations.Readers will agree that Matsumoto (1909–1992) deserves his reputation as Japan’s Georges Simenon.-Publishers Weekly. While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn’t totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife—who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings—ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood? When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife’s death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life... Seicho Matsumoto was Japan's most successful thriller writer. His first detective novel, Points and Lines, sold over a million copies in Japan. Vessel of Sand, published in English as Inspector Imanishi Investigates in 1989, sold over four million copies and became a movie box-office hit.
