A highly personalized cookbook featuring 75 recipes and many anecdotes. 35 black-and-white photographs.

    Collection of 30 science fiction short shorts from Shinichi Hoshi.

    Buson (1716–1783), along with Basho and Issa, is recognized as one of the three Japanese masters of the haiku. In addition to a large selection of haiku, the book also includes a selection of Buson’s prose and a critical introduction.Edith Shiffert is a poet who has lived in Kyoto, Japan, since the 1960s. Her most recent volume is titled Pathways.The late Yuki Sawa was a professor at Kyoto Seika University.

    Volume one of The Arts of Japan presents a comprehensive overview of Japanese art in ancient and medieval times.

    Although he did not finish college, he read Western authors, including Poe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dostoevsky. His major works of poetry, written in 1917 and 1923, were Howling at the Moon and Blue, collected in this volume. These books transformed modern Japanese poetry, and changed forever the face of the future poetic landscape in Japan.Brilliantly translated by Hiroaki Sato, this book was originally published by the University of Tokyo Press, and has long been out of print.

    "We wish you,And childrenAnd fellow human beings of the worldTo knowwhat happenedThat dayAs seen by the eyes of this child"- page 1This book was created by the Committee of Japanese Citizens to send gift copies of a photographic and pictorial record of the Atomic Bombing to our children, and fellow human beings of the world.

    Fifteen years later, Japan was on its way to becoming the only non-Western nation in the nineteenth century with a modern centralized bureaucratic state and industrial economy. This book is a study of the Meiji Restoration that changed the face of Japan. Prominent historian Albert M. Craig tells its story through that of the domain of Choshu-whose role in the formation of modern Japan was not unlike that of Prussia in Germany-during the fifteen crucial years between 1853 and 1868. Whereas previous studies have stressed the role of discontented lower samurai and frustrated rich merchants and peasants in this transition, claiming that they provided the motive power behind the political movements of the Restoration period, this work sharply challenges these earlier interpretations. Craig instead emphasizes the vitality of traditional values in Japan's early reaction to the West and foregrounds the critical contribution of the old society to the formation of the new Meiji state. Choshu in the Meiji Restoration is a seminal work for scholars and students of Japanese history.

    Includes translations of rare Zen texts.

    This beautifully illustrated study is a history of the Japanese garden that also provides an excellent understanding of the great religious and cultural movements that shaped the development of landscape architecture in Japan. Japanese aesthetics and philosophy are blended here with delightful stories of important figures in Japanese history and the author's account of his own travels through Japan, narrated in a vivid style that evokes the richness of this country and its people.--From the jacket.

    Volume two of The Arts of Japan presents a comprehensive overview of Japanese art in late medieval to modern times.

    Naval History Division, virtually untouched. This unique book draws on those sources and others to tell the story of the Pacific War from the viewpoint of the Japanese. Former Marine Corps officer and Asian scholar Paul Dull focuses on the major surface engagements of the war--Coral Sea, Midway, the crucial Solomons campaign, and the last-ditch battles in the Marianas and Philippines. Also included are detailed track charts and a selection of Japanese photographs of major vessels and actions.