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Translation in Modern Japan (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series)

Translation in Modern Japan (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series)


The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism with cutting-edge English-language scholarship. Collectively, the contributors to this book address two critical questions: 1) how does the conception of modern Japan as a culture of translation affect our understanding of Japanese modernity and its relation to the East/West divide? and 2) how does the example of a distinctly East Asian tradition of translation affect our understanding of translation itself? The chapter engage a wide array of disciplines, perspectives, and topics from politics to culture, the written language to visual culture, scientific discourse to children's literature and the Japanese conception of a national literature. Translation in Modern Japan will be of huge interest to a diverse readership in both Japanese studies and translation studies as well as students and scholars of the theory and practice of Japanese literary translation, traditional and modern Japanese history and culture, and Japanese women’s studies.
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Translation in Modern Japan (Routledge Contemorary Japan)

Translation in Modern Japan (Routledge Contemorary Japan)


The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism with cutting-edge English-language scholarship. Collectively, the contributors to this book address two critical questions: 1) how does the conception of modern Japan as a culture of translation affect our understanding of Japanese modernity and its relation to the East/West divide? and 2) how does the example of a distinctly East Asian tradition of translation affect our understanding of translation itself? The chapter engage a wide array of disciplines, perspectives, and topics from politics to culture, the written language to visual culture, scientific discourse to children's literature and the Japanese conception of a national literature. Translation in Modern Japan will be of huge interest to a diverse readership in both Japanese studies and translation studies as well as students and scholars of the theory and practice of Japanese literary translation, traditional and modern Japanese history and culture, and Japanese women's studies.
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Zeami Zeami: Performance Notes (Translations from the Asian Classics)

Zeami Zeami: Performance Notes (Translations from the Asian Classics)


Zeami (1363-1443), Japan's most celebrated actor and playwright, composed more than thirty of the finest plays of no drama. He also wrote a variety of texts on theater and performance that have, until now, been only partially available in English. Zeami: Performance Notes presents the full range of Zeami's critical thought on this subject, which focused on the aesthetic values of no and its antecedents, the techniques of playwriting, the place of allusion, the training of actors, the importance of patronage, and the relationship between performance and broader intellectual and critical concerns. Spanning over four decades, the texts reflect the essence of Zeami's instruction under his famous father, the actor Kannami, and the value of his long and challenging career in medieval Japanese theater. Tom Hare, who has conducted extensive studies of no academically and on stage, begins with a comprehensive introduction that discusses Zeami's critical importance in Japanese culture. He then incorporates essays on the performance of no in medieval Japan and the remarkable story of the transmission and reproduction of Zeami's manuscripts over the past six centuries. His eloquent translation is fully annotated and includes Zeami's diverse and exquisite anthology of dramatic songs, Five Sorts of Singing, presented both in English and in the original Japanese. (Vol 26, No 1)
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Zeami: Performance Notes (Translations from the Asian Classics)

Zeami: Performance Notes (Translations from the Asian Classics)


Zeami (1363-1443), Japan's most celebrated actor and playwright, composed more than thirty of the finest plays of no drama. He also wrote a variety of texts on theater and performance that have, until now, been only partially available in English. Zeami: Performance Notes presents the full range of Zeami's critical thought on this subject, which focused on the aesthetic values of no and its antecedents, the techniques of playwriting, the place of allusion, the training of actors, the importance of patronage, and the relationship between performance and broader intellectual and critical concerns. Spanning over four decades, the texts reflect the essence of Zeami's instruction under his famous father, the actor Kannami, and the value of his long and challenging career in medieval Japanese theater. Tom Hare, who has conducted extensive studies of no academically and on stage, begins with a comprehensive introduction that discusses Zeami's critical importance in Japanese culture. He then incorporates essays on the performance of no in medieval Japan and the remarkable story of the transmission and reproduction of Zeami's manuscripts over the past six centuries. His eloquent translation is fully annotated and includes Zeami's diverse and exquisite anthology of dramatic songs, Five Sorts of Singing, presented both in English and in the original Japanese. (Vol 26, No 1)
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Sakuteiki Visions of the Japanese Garden: A Modern Translation of Japan's Gardening Classic

Sakuteiki Visions of the Japanese Garden: A Modern Translation of Japan's Gardening Classic


The Sakuteiki, or "Records of Garden Making," was written nearly 1000 years ago, making it the oldest work on Japanese gardening; in fact, the oldest book on gardening in the world! In this edition of the Sakuteiki, the authors provide both an English-language translation of this classic work; and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese gardening.A Japanese court noble wrote the Sakuteiki during the Heian period (794-1184). During this critical era in Japanese history cultural influences on poetry, clothing-and gardening-that had been imported from China and Korea over the previous centuries were reexamined and reinterpreted into their unique Japanese forms. The Sakuteiki contains the first systematic record of this new gardening style-with both technical advice on gardening-building (much of which is still followed in today's Japanese gardens) and an examination of the four central threads of allegorical meaning which were integral features of Heian-era garden design.
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Transparent Power

Transparent Power


Transparent Power (“Tomei na Chikara”) became a Japanese language non-fiction bestseller in Japan, yet for over a decade no full English translation ever saw the light of day. One reason is the unusual content — a private record of the travels and esoteric teachings of one of the greatest modern martial arts legends in Japan (in fact, the true heir to the tradition that also gave rise to the art known as Aikido). This book is not about learning physical techniques to overpower opponents. Instead, the true story of Transparent Power is about a mysterious force that one man discovered over a century ago, how it was transmitted to one of his disciples, and how the latter sensei (teacher) learned to develop it and use it at will. Although these men happened to be martial artists, they could just as easily have been dentists or lawyers or mathematicians. In fact, the author of Transparent Power is a math teacher — a respected professor at a major university whose life is firmly grounded in logic, rational thought and empirical study. But when he happened to meet one of the men who had mastered this force they called Aiki, he discovered something beyond his wildest imagination: that logic and reason come up empty-handed when faced with the blunt reality of a controllable force that can totally negate the strength of a large man and then send him flying across the room. Not a martial arts throw or a technique using muscles, but a genuine, experiential POWER that allows a 95 year-old man to toss 30 year-old bodybuilders, judo and karate masters around like beanbags. The author, Dr. Kimura, is still teaching mathematics. But his life changed completely through daily encounters with this mysterious force and with Sagawa Sensei, the only teacher alive who could command it. Transparent Power is Kimura’s record of both Sagawa’s life and teachings and what little is known about Sagawa’s own teacher, the man who discovered Aiki.
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Yoshida Shigeru: Last Meiji Man

Yoshida Shigeru: Last Meiji Man


The most complete autobiography of Yoshida Shigeru available in English, this expanded translation of his memoirs traces the remarkable life and times of one of Japan's most powerful and influential figures. Yoshida (1878-1967), who served in China and Europe as a career diplomat, closely linked with the key political leaders who shaped the world in Japan's most tumultuous years in the first half of the twentieth century. He returned to politics to rebuild Japan as a five-time prime minister after the devastation of World War II. Yoshida retired from the Japanese Foreign Ministry in 1939 with the intention of leading a quiet life. Yet he knew the winds of war were stirring and presciently began behind-the scenes maneuvering to avoid the calamitous Pacific War. Soon after Japan's defeat, Yoshida amassed the political power to form his own cabinet. Sandwiched between Japan's interests and major reforms advanced by MacArthur's occupation forces, Yoshida boldly pushed through many essential reforms, laying the foundation for his country's reentry into the global community.Richly laced with historical detail, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century Japan. Exploring Yoshida's and Japan's linked histories, the book traces Yoshida's lengthy tenure in China, his travel abroad as a member of Japan's mission to conclude World War I, the interwar years spent as a high-ranking diplomat in Europe, his role in the days leading up to the Pearl Harbor attack, his view on the loss of war, his insights into MacArthur's character, Japan's postwar economic woes, the new constitution, the threat of communism, the imperial system, and the San Francisco Peace Conference in 1958 that guaranteed Japan's sovereignty.
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Zen Texts (Bdk English Tripitaka Translation Series)

Zen Texts (Bdk English Tripitaka Translation Series)


This volume includes four important Chan/Zen texts. Essentials of the Transmission of Mind (Chuanxinfayao) is based on the teachings of the ninth-century Chan master Huangbo Xiyun. It represents perhaps the earliest reliable doctrinal treatise of the classical phase of Chan that began with Mazu Daoyi, whose hall-mark is the use of oral dialogue between teacher and student—in this case, between Huangbo and the recorder of the text, the literati Pei Xiu. The text’s central theme is its emphasis that the mind—when free of discriminating thought or conceptualization—is Buddha-nature itself. A Treatise on Letting Zen Flourish to Protect the State (Køzengokokuron) was written in 1198 by the Tendai monk Myøan Eisai, as a response to the Kamakura government’s imperial sanction against the propagation of the Zen school in Japan. Through this work, which quotes from more than one hundred Indian and Chinese Buddhist texts, Eisai provides an excellent introduction to Chan/Zen principles and argues for the development of the Zen school as an ideal form of religion for the benefit of the Japanese people. Thoroughly annotated, with an appendix listing Eisai’s cited sources. A Universal Recommendation for True Zazen (Fukanzazengi) by Eihei Døgen (1200–1253), founder of the Søtø Zen school in Japan, is a brief exposition on the profound meaning and function of the practice of “true” zazen, or shikantaza (“pure sitting”), as the means for ultimate awakening. Greatly influenced by Døgen’s works, including Fukanzazengi, the fourth Søtø patriarch Keizan Jøkin (1268–1325) wrote Advice on the Practice of Zazen (Zazenyojinki) as an instructional guide to zazen practice for monastics and laypeople, emphasizing the priority of shikantaza.
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The Forgotten Japanese - Tsuneichi, Miyamoto/ Irish

The Forgotten Japanese - Tsuneichi, Miyamoto/ Irish


Originally Published in 1960, this is the first English translation of Miyamoto Tsuneichi's seminal work documenting rural life in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan. Tsuneichi, a prominent Japanese folklorist, walked over 100,000 miles during his lifetime collecting the stories of elderly villagers and chronicling a fading agricultural past. The eighteen chapters, slightly abridged and reorganized from the original, are divided into two sections, Life Stories and Village Stories. They contain several black and white photographs and maps and are followed by a glossary, but no index. Jeffrey S. Irish is an independent scholar living on the Japanese island of Kyushu. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Transparent Power

Transparent Power


Transparent Power (“Tomei na Chikara”) became a Japanese language non-fiction bestseller in Japan, yet for over a decade no full English translation ever saw the light of day. One reason is the unusual content — a private record of the travels and esoteric teachings of one of the greatest modern martial arts legends in Japan (in fact, the true heir to the tradition that also gave rise to the art known as Aikido). This book is not about learning physical techniques to overpower opponents. Instead, the true story of Transparent Power is about a mysterious force that one man discovered over a century ago, how it was transmitted to one of his disciples, and how the latter sensei (teacher) learned to develop it and use it at will. Although these men happened to be martial artists, they could just as easily have been dentists or lawyers or mathematicians. In fact, the author of Transparent Power is a math teacher — a respected professor at a major university whose life is firmly grounded in logic, rational thought and empirical study. But when he happened to meet one of the men who had mastered this force they called Aiki, he discovered something beyond his wildest imagination: that logic and reason come up empty-handed when faced with the blunt reality of a controllable force that can totally negate the strength of a large man and then send him flying across the room. Not a martial arts throw or a technique using muscles, but a genuine, experiential POWER that allows a 95 year-old man to toss 30 year-old bodybuilders, judo and karate masters around like beanbags. The author, Dr. Kimura, is still teaching mathematics. But his life changed completely through daily encounters with this mysterious force and with Sagawa Sensei, the only teacher alive who could command it. Transparent Power is Kimura’s record of both Sagawa’s life and teachings and what little is known about Sagawa’s own teacher, the man who discovered Aiki.
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The Forgotten Japanese - Jeffrey S. Irish Miyamoto Tsuneichi (hardcover)

The Forgotten Japanese - Jeffrey S. Irish Miyamoto Tsuneichi (hardcover)


Originally Published in 1960, this is the first English translation of Miyamoto Tsuneichi's seminal work documenting rural life in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan. Tsuneichi, a prominent Japanese folklorist, walked over 100,000 miles during his lifetime collecting the stories of elderly villagers and chronicling a fading agricultural past. The eighteen chapters, slightly abridged and reorganized from the original, are divided into two sections, Life Stories and Village Stories. They contain several black and white photographs and maps and are followed by a glossary, but no index. Jeffrey S. Irish is an independent scholar living on the Japanese island of Kyushu. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Cherry Blossom Epiphany -- the poetry and philosophy of a flowering tree

Cherry Blossom Epiphany -- the poetry and philosophy of a flowering tree


Cherry Blossom Epiphany - the poetry and philosophy of a flowering tree - a selection, translation and lengthy explication of 3000 haiku, waka, senryû and kyôka about a major theme from I.P.O.O.H. (In Praise Of Olde Haiku)by robin d. gill 1. Haiku -Translation from Japanese to English 2. Japanese poetry - 8c-20c - waka, haiku and senryû 3. Natural History - flowering cherries 4. Japan - Culture - Edo Era 5. Nonfiction - Literature 6. Translation - applied 7. You tell me! If the solemn yet happy New Year's is the most important celebration of Japanese (Yamato) ethnic culture, and the quiet aesthetic practice of Moon-viewing in the fall the most elegant expression of Pan-Asian Buddhism=religion, the subject of this book, Blossom-viewing - which generally means sitting down together in vast crowds to drink, dance, sing and otherwise enjoy the flowering cherry in full-bloom - is less a rite than a riot (a word originally meaning an 'uproar'). The major carnival of the year, it is unusual for being held on a date that is not determined by astronomy, astrology or the accidents of history as most such events are in literate cultures. It takes place whenever the cherry trees are good and ready. Enjoyed in the flesh, the blossom-viewing, or hanami, is also of the mind, so much so, in fact, that poetry is often credited with the spread of the practice over the centuries from the Imperial courts to the maids of Edo. Nobles enjoyed link-verse contests presided over by famous poet-judges. Hermits hung poems feting this flower of flowers (to say the generic "flower" = hana in Japanese connotes "cherry!") on strips of paper from the branches of lone trees where only the wind would read them. In the Occident, too, flowers embody beauty and serve as reminders of mortality, but there is no flower that, like the cherry blossom, stands for all flowers. Even the rose, by any name, cannot compare with the sakura in depth and breadth of poetic trope or viewing practice. In Cherry Blossom Epiphany, Robin D. Gill hopes to help readers experience, metaphysically, some of this alternative world. Haiku is a hyper-short (17-syllabet or 7-beat) Japanese poem directly or indirectly touching upon seasonal phenomena, natural or cultural. Literally millions of these ku have been written, some, perhaps, many times, about the flowering cherry (sakura), and the human activity associated with it, blossom-viewing (hanami). As the most popular theme in traditional haiku (haikai), cherry-blossom ku tend to be overlooked by modern critics more interested in creativity expressed with fresh subjects; but this embarrassment of riches has much to offer the poet who is pushed to come up with something, anything, different from the rest and allows the editor to select from what is, for all practical purposes, an infinite number of ku. Literary critics, take note: Like Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! (2003) and Fly-ku! (2004), this book not only explores new ways to anthologize poetry but demonstrates the practice of multiple readings (an average of two per ku) as part of a composite translation turned into an object of art by innovative clustering. Book-collectors might further note that while Cherry Blossom Epiphany may not be hardback, it takes advantage of the many symbols included with Japanese font to introduce design ornamentation (the circle within the circle, the reverse (Buddhist) swastika, etc.) hitherto not found in English language print. It is a one-of-a-kind work of design by the author.
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The Path: Find Fulfillment through prosperity from Japan’s Father of Management

The Path: Find Fulfillment through prosperity from Japan’s Father of Management


Have a dream that inspires. Nurture your ability to embrace differences. Seek out challenges--scale one mountain after another. Face challenges that matter— learn to "fight with real swords." These and other lessons were the constants in the life of Konosuke Matsushita, founder of the Panasonic business empire. In this first complete English translation of The Path, Matsushita's timeless advice will benefit anyone who desires to lead better by living better. For the first time in English, the complete translation of one of the most popular and important management books ever published. In Japan, the name Konosuke Matsushita is spoken with a hushed reverence. Even now, twenty-one years after his death, Matsushita-san is praised by some as "the god of management," and he remains one of the most influential and inspirational business thinkers ever. Founder and father of the global corporation Panasonic, Matsushita saw the creation of wealth not as a goal or destination but as a voyage. And in The Path, Matsushita shared the wisdom and insights acquired on his journey: how to inspire true innovation at all levels, manage through difficult times, and create lasting value and a great legacy. Written humbly from a platform of accomplishment virtually unparalleled among businesspersons, The Path demonstrates to readers today the many ways each of us can find within ourselves the strength and focus to do good by doing well. Brief, beautifully stated chapters offer an unconventional management philosophy that you can apply universally, as well as to specific everyday situations: When You Have to Make Important Decisions To Further Improve Your Work To Cultivate a Spirit of Independence To Further Expand Your Business For the Country to Prosper For more than four decades, The Path has been a perennial bestseller, with nearly 4.5 million copies sold worldwide. Presented here in its entirety for the first time in English, this book offers an enlightening and informative spiritual blueprint for entrepreneurs, executives, managers, and anyone who wishes to learn from a great master. Follow The Path. It may lead you--and help you lead others--to professional success and personal fulfillment.
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Modernism in Practice: An Introduction to Postwar Japanese Poetry

Modernism in Practice: An Introduction to Postwar Japanese Poetry


Postwar modernist verse has been rarely discussed in English-language works on Japanese literature, despite the fact that it has been the dominant mode of poetic expression in Japan since World War II. Now readers of modern Japanese poetry in translation have gained an impressive intellectual and linguistic companion in their enjoyment of modern Japanese verse. Modernism in Practice combines close readings of individual Japanese postwar poets and poetry with historical and critical analysis. Five of the seven chapters concentrate on the life and work of such outstanding poets as Soh Sakon, Ishigaki Rin, Ito Hiromi, Asabuki Ryoji, and Tanikawa Shuntaro. Several of these writers have only come into prominence in recent decades, so this work also serves to acquaint readers with contemporary Japanese verse. A significant dimension of this volume is the detailed and extensive treatment afforded two important areas of postwar Japanese verse: the poetry of women and of Okinawa. In addition, the book looks at a number of early prewar poets, including Yosano Akiko and her husband, Tekkan, in an attempt to analyze the origins of modernist poetry in Japan. Modernism in Practice is noteworthy not only as an introduction to postwar Japanese poets and their times, but also for the numerous poems that appear in translation throughout the volume--many for the first time in book form. These elegant, evocative translations, together with a contextual study unmatched in depth and conviction, make this an exciting contribution to modern Japanese literature.
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The Path: Find Fulfillment through prosperity from Japan’s Father of Management

The Path: Find Fulfillment through prosperity from Japan’s Father of Management


Have a dream that inspires. Nurture your ability to embrace differences. Seek out challenges--scale one mountain after another. Face challenges that matter— learn to "fight with real swords." These and other lessons were the constants in the life of Konosuke Matsushita, founder of the Panasonic business empire. In this first complete English translation of The Path, Matsushita's timeless advice will benefit anyone who desires to lead better by living better. For the first time in English, the complete translation of one of the most popular and important management books ever published. In Japan, the name Konosuke Matsushita is spoken with a hushed reverence. Even now, twenty-one years after his death, Matsushita-san is praised by some as "the god of management," and he remains one of the most influential and inspirational business thinkers ever. Founder and father of the global corporation Panasonic, Matsushita saw the creation of wealth not as a goal or destination but as a voyage. And in The Path, Matsushita shared the wisdom and insights acquired on his journey: how to inspire true innovation at all levels, manage through difficult times, and create lasting value and a great legacy. Written humbly from a platform of accomplishment virtually unparalleled among businesspersons, The Path demonstrates to readers today the many ways each of us can find within ourselves the strength and focus to do good by doing well. Brief, beautifully stated chapters offer an unconventional management philosophy that you can apply universally, as well as to specific everyday situations: When You Have to Make Important Decisions To Further Improve Your Work To Cultivate a Spirit of Independence To Further Expand Your Business For the Country to Prosper For more than four decades, The Path has been a perennial bestseller, with nearly 4.5 million copies sold worldwide. Presented here in its entirety for the first time in English, this book offers an enlightening and informative spiritual blueprint for entrepreneurs, executives, managers, and anyone who wishes to learn from a great master. Follow The Path. It may lead you--and help you lead others--to professional success and personal fulfillment.
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Norito

Norito


This volume presents the only English translation of the prayers of Japan's indigenous religious tradition, Shinto. These prayers, norito, are works of religious literature that are basic to our understanding of Japanese religious history. Locating Donald Philippi as one of a small number of scholars who have developed a perceptive approach to the problem of "hermeneutical distance" in dealing with ancient or foreign texts, Joseph M. Kitagawa recalls Mircea Eliade's observation that "most of the time [our] encounters and comparisons with non-Western cultures have not made all the `strangeness' of these cultures evident. . . . We may say that the Western world has not yet, or not generally, met with authentic representatives of the `real' non-Western traditions." Composed in the stately ritual language of the ancient Japanese and presented as a "performing text," these prayers are, Kitagawa tells us, "one of the authentic foreign representatives in Eliade's sense." In the preface Kitagawa elucidates their significance, discusses Philippi's methods of encountering the "strangeness" of Japan, and comments astutely on aspects of the encounter of East and West.
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Sakuteiki Visions of the Japanese Garden: A Modern Translation of Japan's Gardening Classic

Sakuteiki Visions of the Japanese Garden: A Modern Translation of Japan's Gardening Classic


The Sakuteiki, or "Records of Garden Making," was written nearly 1000 years ago, making it the oldest work on Japanese gardening; in fact, the oldest book on gardening in the world! In this edition of the Sakuteiki, the authors provide both an English-language translation of this classic work; and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese gardening.A Japanese court noble wrote the Sakuteiki during the Heian period (794-1184). During this critical era in Japanese history cultural influences on poetry, clothing-and gardening-that had been imported from China and Korea over the previous centuries were reexamined and reinterpreted into their unique Japanese forms. The Sakuteiki contains the first systematic record of this new gardening style-with both technical advice on gardening-building (much of which is still followed in today's Japanese gardens) and an examination of the four central threads of allegorical meaning which were integral features of Heian-era garden design.
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The Forgotten Japanese - Jeffrey S. Irish Miyamoto Tsuneichi (hardcover)

The Forgotten Japanese - Jeffrey S. Irish Miyamoto Tsuneichi (hardcover)


Originally Published in 1960, this is the first English translation of Miyamoto Tsuneichi's seminal work documenting rural life in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan. Tsuneichi, a prominent Japanese folklorist, walked over 100,000 miles during his lifetime collecting the stories of elderly villagers and chronicling a fading agricultural past. The eighteen chapters, slightly abridged and reorganized from the original, are divided into two sections, Life Stories and Village Stories. They contain several black and white photographs and maps and are followed by a glossary, but no index. Jeffrey S. Irish is an independent scholar living on the Japanese island of Kyushu. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Love in Translation: A Novel

Love in Translation: A Novel


Stuck.  That’s how 33-year-old aspiring singer Celeste Duncan feels, with her deadbeat boyfriend and static career. But then Celeste receives a puzzling phone call and a box full of mysterious family heirlooms which just might be the first real clue to the identity of the father she never knew. Impulsively, Celeste flies to Japan to search for a long-lost relative who could be able to explain. She stumbles head first into a weird, wonderful world where nothing is quite as it seems—a land with an inexplicable fascination with foreigners, karaoke boxes, and unbearably perky TV stars. With little knowledge of Japanese, Celeste finds a friend in her English-speaking homestay brother, Takuya, and comes to depend on him for all variety of translation, travel and investigatory needs. As they cross the country following a trail after Celeste's family, she discovers she's developing "more-than-sisterly" feelings for him. But with a nosy homestay mom scheming to reunite Takuya with his old girlfriend, and her search growing dimmer, Celeste begins to wonder whether she's made a terrible mistake by coming to Japan. Can Celeste find her true self in this strange land, and discover that love can transcend culture?
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The Book of Five Rings : Gorin No Sho the Accurate, Unabridged Translation the Greatest Samurai Musashi Speaks !

The Book of Five Rings : Gorin No Sho the Accurate, Unabridged Translation the Greatest Samurai Musashi Speaks !


The Book of 5 Rings Gorin No Sho the Greatest Samurai : The accurate, unabridged translation Musashi speaks! Starting at 13 years old, Musashi fought over 60 life and death battles - never losing! Gorin No Sho - The Book of 5 Rings outlines the fundamentals of Kendo and marital training as proven successful in actual combat by Japan's Greatest Samurai - Musashi Miyamoto. You will readily understand how these strategies are useful for business, sports, and virtually any competitive situation. From black spots, to rhythms, to positioning, to psyching your opponent out and dozens more - you will learn practical strategies to win. This is a great audiobook for anybody interested in martial arts, competitive strategy, Samurai and their training and ethics, Japan, Japanese culture, Oriental culture and philosophy, and especially the Samurai and Bushido. This is especially helpful for martial artists in understanding the mental aspects of training and strategy in fighting. Once you read this book you will know where Bruce Lee developed most of his fighting philosophy and style from. Pay careful attention to the water and fire chapter and you will see it is similar to what Bruce Lee spoke of - except this was written in 1643 - 300 years before Bruce Lee was born. The strategies in The Book of 5 Rings can be applied to all challenges and conflicts of life. Based upon the to the death duels Musashi fought, knowledge gained from his samurai father warrior, and almost 20 years of study and reflection solely on martial strategy Musashi produced the most useful book ever made for one to one individual combat and a very useful book for group combat. This audiobook explains practical combat theories, training, and execution. It is an original translation and absolutely unique - IT IS ACCURATELY AND MINIMALLY INTERPRETED! We have looked at the other translations available and can say that most of them are abridged (even though they do not admit it) and are highly interpretive (read opinions of the translator / author added to the material - not from Musashi - how do you know what he actually wrote in these cases?) Martial Strategist’s translation is so accurate (we translated from a copy of the original 1645 manuscript that Musashi wrote) that we did very minimal correction/interpretation of the grammatical and verbal differences between these two very different languages, worlds, and ages in changing it to modern English. The result is an audiobook that is often grammatically incorrect in English, but much more vivid and accurate. Actually, the irony of this is that this translation is much less abstract than others. Because we did not worry about trying to rephrase things to make it pass the English teacher's inspection, we were able to maintain the direct, specific language and meaning that Musashi imparted. If you are a stickler for proper English, you may not enjoy this audiobook, however if you want to get the true text and meaning that Musashi wrote and are willing to listen to a few things a couple of times we are sure that you will be very pleased with this version. This is the only truly unabridged audiobook CD version available of this classic master work. It is complete, clear, and enjoyable. It is a quality production recorded in 2005 with music and sound effects. This audiobook has a real actor and is performed in a manner that is easy to understand and entertaining. It is a concise and accurate translation with the actor clearly and comprehensively articulating the text. It is not dry and boring as some other versions are. It has some levity in appropriate places. 2 Compact Disks: approx 1 hour 50 minutes running time. CONTENTS include The Ground Chapter, The Water Chapter, The Fire Chapter, The Wind Chapter, The Ku / Sky Chapter. Gorin No Sho - The Book of 5 Rings you can understand and integrate the principles of winning into your life. This audiobook is energizing, informative, entertaining and ver
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