Kicho & Nobunaga 2nd edition


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Exploring Lady Nobunaga’s involvement in her warlord husband’s triumph and tragedy during the social upheval of 16c Japan, Rumi presents her theory to the most debated mystery in the Japaese history.




Kicho & Nobunaga


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The Sengoku period or Warring States period in Japanese history was a time of social upheaval. The man who played the major part in ending this was Lord Oda Nobunaga, a brave samurai and innovative politician. This is an untold story of his lady, Nohime, or the princess of Mino. She was called Kicho by her father, a warlord in 16c Japan. When the rest of Japan suffered constant military conflict, Kicho's father's state had a market where villagers enjoyed shopping clothes and delicious foods...




Kicho & Nobunaga 2Nd Edition


Book Description

Exploring Lady Nobunaga's involvement in her warlord husband's triumph and tragedy during the social upheval of 16c Japan, Rumi presents her theory to the most debated mystery in the Japaese history.




Seeds From a Birch Tree


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A respected Zen Buddhist presents haiku--a seventeen-line poem arranged in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables--as a writing meditation and spiritual path which opens the reader to the experience of nature. Divided into three parts, the book follows the author's passage from haiku novice to a place of understanding haiku and himself.




Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan


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Explores how Soto monks between the 13th and 16th centuries developed new forms of monastic organization and Zen instructions and new applications for Zen rituals within lay life; how these innovations helped shape rural society; and how remnants of them remain in the modern Soto school, now the lar




The Japanese Sword


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One of the foremost experts on the Japanese sword describes their history andppreciations in this book, with photographs and illustrations.




Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century


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During the premodern period, Japan had significant political, economic and cultural relations with Korea. This book purports that this period, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, was the formative stage of the East Asian diplomacy and ideology which laid the foundations for foreign relations between these two countries in the modern period. The book also investigates how Japan's and Korea's political and diplomatic ideologies emerged as a nascent form of nationalism which scholars have not previously clarified.




The Shogun's Queen


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Japan, and the year is 1853. Growing up among the samurai of the Satsuma Clan, in Japan's deep south, the fiery, beautiful and headstrong Okatsu has like all the clan's women been encouraged to be bold, taught to wield the halberd, and to ride a horse. But when she is just seventeen, four black ships appear. Bristling with cannon and manned by strangers who to the Japanese eyes are barbarians, their appearance threatens Japan's very existence. And turns Okatsu's world upside down. Chosen by her feudal lord, she has been given a very special role to play. Given a new name Princess Atsu and a new destiny, she is the only one who can save the realm. Her journey takes her to Edo Castle, a place so secret that it cannot be marked on any map. There, sequestered in the Women's Palace home to three thousand women, and where only one man may enter: the shogun she seems doomed to live out her days.




Japan Before Tokugawa


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These papers by leading specialists on sixteenth-century Japan explore Japan's transition from medieval (Chusei) to early modern (Kinsei) society. During this time, regional lords (daimyo) first battled for local autonomy and then for national supremacy. Originally published in 1981. 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.




和家具


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Focusing on the furniture of the Edo and early Meiji periods, this text lookst the history, aesthetics and techniques of hand-worked traditional Japaneseurniture.