Old Bones and Serpent Stones

Theresa Skwara

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies
• Fossils, and the life of the past that they represent, are themes of great interest to the general public. This book identifies and describes essentia... Lees meer

Japan in Crisis

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 20
• The transition between the reign of the powerful Emperor Meiji and that of his weak successor Taisho was marked by the emergence of a new individualis... Lees meer

Informal Empire in Crisis

Martyn Atkins

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 74
• The Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service was, without doubt, the highest-ranking foreigner in the Chinese Government. His positio... Lees meer

Kafu the Scribbler

Edward Seidensticker

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 3
• Kafū the Scribbler is neither pure biography nor pure criticism nor yet a pure anthology, but a blending of the three. It is an introduction to Nagai ... Lees meer

Education in Tokugawa Japan

R Dore

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 8
• "This careful and important study of the development of the varied types of education in the last two and a half centuries of feudalism in Japan under... Lees meer

Pictures of the Heart

Joshua S Mostow

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 26
• The Hyakunin Isshu , or One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each collection, is a sequence of one hundred Japanese poems in the tanka form, selected by the fa... Lees meer

Accomplices of Silence

Masao Miyoshi

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 16
• The Japanese novel, lately so widely translated, is finding a broader and better informed readership than ever before. Until now, however, no comprehe... Lees meer

Government and Local Power in Japan, 500-1700

John Hall

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 19
• This important study of Japan in premodern times, embracing a span of nearly thirteen centuries, is directed toward the illumination of some important... Lees meer

Personality in Japanese History

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 13
• Like institutions or culture, personality has its own structure, its own forces, and its own impact with the confluence of historical determinants. Wh... Lees meer

Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow

Michiko Ishimure

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 25
• In the early 1950s, numerous cases of organic mercury poisoning were discovered in the fishing villages around Minamata, Japan. Yet for decades after,... Lees meer

The Economic Development of Japan

William Lockwood

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 10
• The rise of Japan from agrarianism to a position as one of the leading industrial powers is one of the most dramatic and meaningful phenomena in econo... Lees meer

Okagami, the Great Mirror

Helen McCullough

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 4
• Presented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Ōkagami , a historical tale that mirrors a man's life and the times in which ... Lees meer

Research in Japanese Sources

Herschel Webb

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 11
• This book is intended as a beginner's guide to the subject of Japanese bibliography. It is designed for three kinds of users: (I) the student in some ... Lees meer

Tales of Times Now Past

Marian Ury

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 9
• Tales of Times Now Past is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from Konjaku monogatari shu , a Japanese anthology dating from the e... Lees meer

Tokugawa Ideology

Herman Ooms

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 18
• Relying on a broad range of theoretical writings on the problem of ideology the author has formulated their own interpretations of the formation of ea... Lees meer

Victors' Justice

Richard Minear

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 22
• In the aftermath of the war in the Pacific, the victorious Allies brought to trial Tojo Hideki and twenty-seven other Japanese leaders for "crimes aga... Lees meer

Christian Converts and Social Protests in Meiji Japan

Irwin Scheiner

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 24
• Nowhere has there been a discussion of the confusion necessarily generated by the rapidity of the change or of the agony created in the lives of many ... Lees meer

They Came to Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 15
• The Japan accidentally discovered by the Europeans in 1543 was a country torn by internecene wars waged by independent barons who recognised no effect... Lees meer

Literary and Art Theories in Japan

Makoto Ueda

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies | nr. 6
• Literary and Art Theories in Japan surveys thirteen major aestheticians to uncover what remained important over the course of Japanese history. Rather... Lees meer