Ninety-five haiku written over two hundred years ago by the Japanese poet Issa.

     The Tokaido Street was the main highway linking Edo, the administrative capital, with Kyoto, the imperial old capital, and its route can still be traced to this day. It was first laid out some 400 years ago, after Edo became the shogun’s capital. The 53 Stations of the Tokaido series includes 55 prints,depicting the 53 stops along the route, plus the starting and end points, Edo and Kyoto. The series was the creation of the celebrated ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Hiroshige,also known as Ando Hiroshige. Hiroshige’s vibrant portrayals of the varied people, seasonal landscapes and weather conditions found along the route tapped into people’s yearning to travel. The Tag line was “ Views as realistic as actually being there. They were so popular - they made people feel they’s been transported to these scenes. The 53 Stations of the Tokaido series is a timeless masterpiece that still captivates people around the world .

    An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryōtarō devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the twentieth century.Volume I describes the growth of Japan s fledgling Meiji state, a major "character" in the novel. We are also introduced to our three heroes, born into obscurity, the brothers Akiyama Yoshifuru and Akiyama Saneyuki, who will go on to play important roles in the Japanese Army and Navy, and the poet Masaoka Shiki, who will spend much of his short life trying to establish the haiku as a respected poetic form.Anyone curious as to how the "tiny, rising nation of Japan" was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.

    Tales range from the world of nymphs and interdimensional adventures, to deadly spiders on planes and depictions of apocalyptic futures. While some stories loosely connect, each story is its own carefully laid experience. Tezuka will chill readers with dark visages of the world counterpointed with his amazing art style that has influenced fans for decades.

    It contains all of the recipes from the accompanying book.

    One can do anything or nothing. The instructors, who are not expected to instruct, occupy themselves in various ways. Q's room-mate, the crab-shaped theologian, preaches doom and destruction and indulges in a kind of self-flagellation; the literary man is writing an experimental novel which Q, who has never read a novel of any kind, finds shocking; a former electrical engineer has invented a game of pure probability which the instructors are compelled to play daily and which Q has a dread of winning, for the prize is the rector's wife.And then, there is something unusual about what they eat. As a secret member of the Sumiyakist Party, Q is on a mission to incite the inmates of the reformatory into revolution against their oppressors. But who are the oppressors? The overseer? Though he has a lot to say, he has no authority. The rector, so huge that his body seems ready to engulf the world? He spends his time eating, wallowing in a vast bath, or being shaved all over by his unsmiling nurse. Perhaps the one-eyed Doktor, who performs an "operation" on all newcomers?A revolution eventually takes place, but not as the Candide-like Q has planned, nor is the outcome of it what his sumiyakist doctrine had led him to expect. But then, nothing is quite what it seems in this unusual science fiction novel, in which conflicting philosophies and attitudes to life and death, freedom, equality, morality, literature, existence are held up against an eerie, dreamlike background. Fantasy, political satire, burlesque--the novel reflects a bizarre image of the human condition.

    Bittersweet and lovely wish beautiful illustrations. By Miyoko Matsutani, illustrated by Chihiro Iwasaki, with the English version by Alvin Tresselt.

    

    Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Natsume Soseki.Introduction: The Heritage --The Frustrated Years (1903-1907) --The Moment of Decision (1907-1908) --The First Trilogy (1908-1910) --The Second Trilogy (1910-1914) --Another Vista: Last Years (1915-1916) --Conclusion: An Assessment --Notes and References --Selected Bibliography --Index

    

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    Thayer, who was American press attach� in Tokyo from 1962 to 1965, presents a detailed account of conservative politics in Japan. Although he makes some historical comparisons, Dr. Thayer's main focus is on the contemporary workings of the Liberal Democratic Party, the ruling party in Japan. He identifies the political elements: the men are the Dietmen, the bureaucrats, the businessmen, the regional politicians, and the people; the institutions are the factions, the regional organizations of the Dietmen, the economic community and the various party organs. He shows how these elements work: how the Prime Minister is elected, how the cabinet is chosen, how party and government posts are filled, how policy is made, how a political decision is reached, and how the party is run.Contents: I. Introduction.; II. The Factions.; III. The Economic Community.; IV. The Party, the Prefectures, and the People.; V. The Elections.; VI. Choosing the President.; VII. Making a Cabinet.; VIII. Formulating Policy.; IX. Reaching a Decision.; X. Running the Party.; XI. Conclusions.; Index.Originally published in 1969.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.