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1) Japan
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Describes how the culture of Japan is reflected in its many festivals, including the Gion Festival, the Fire Festivals, and the Sapporo Snow Festival.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Tojiro, a young seller of rice cakes in the Japanese capital of Edo, later known as Tokyo, is amazed to discover that the grumpy and shabby old man who buys his cakes is a famous artist renowned for his sketches, prints, and paintings of flowers, animals, and landscapes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Brimming with ancient traditions, exciting decorations, and delicious, seasonal foods, Japanese Celebrations for Children will take you on a month-by-month tour of some of Japan's best-loved festivals. Beautifully illustrated and full of fascinating facts about Japanese holidays and family celebrations, this 48-page picture book offers a vivid picture of some of Japan's most festive events including New Year's, Children's Day, Cherry Blossom Festival,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the eyes of people who always had their doubts about modernity - who greeted it not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's familiar modernizers and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress. We encounter writers of dramas, ghost stories and crime novels where modernity itself...
9) I am a cat
Author
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
I Am a Cat satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current Empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and adventurers - each offering insights of their own into this...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a 'do-nothing' because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good at doing nothing, perhaps he could turn it into a business. And with one tweet, he began his business of renting himself out to do nothing. Morimoto, aka Rental Person, provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. Sitting with a client undergoing surgery, accompanying...
Author
Series
Usagi Yojimbo volume 4
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Stories of the life and times of a brave and lonesome warrior rabbit in 17th century Japan.
14) Thousand cranes
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.
15) Geisha: a life
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Usagi Yojimbo volume 3
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of Miyamoto Usagi, the rabbit samurai.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Travelling to Japan has never been so much fun-- visit the land of anime, manga, cosplay, hot springs and sushi! This full-color graphic novel guidebook explores Japanese culture from a cartoonist's perspective. Cool Japan Guide takes you on a fun tour from the high-energy urban streets of Tokyo to the peaceful Zen gardens and Shinto shrines of Kyoto and introduces you to-- the exciting worlds of Japanese food, the otaku (geek) culture of Japan, the...
18) Japan
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Whether you are traveling in luxury or with just a pack on your back, it's important that you have a safe, fun, and easy-going trip. Bad etiquette and a misunderstanding about customs can put an otherwise very exciting trip on hold faster than a bad case of food poisoning. Use this customs and etiquette book as not only your basic travel guides but be an ambassador making good impressions of the United States wherever you go. This guide will be invaluable...
Author
Series
Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 11
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Amid clashes between Ghouls and the Commission of Counter Ghoul investigators at Doctor Kano's underground facility, Kaneki finds himself locked in battle with Special Class Ghoul Investigator Yukinori Shinohara....
Author
Series
Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every wayexcept their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Things heat up in the Ward Eleven as the CCG investigates the high rate of Investigator deaths. Kaneki has an explosive...
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