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  • Nakagami, Japan
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    Nakagami, Japan

    How do you write yourself into a literature that doesn't know you exist? This was the conundrum confronted by Nakagami Kenji (19461992), who counted himself among the buraku-min, Japan's largest...
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  • Managing Innovation in Japan Managing Innovation in Japan
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    Managing Innovation in Japan

    Formation of IT Features through Interaction with Institutional Systems: Empirical Evidence of Unique Epidemic Behavior.- Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality...
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  • Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art
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    Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art

    The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in...
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  • The Spirit of Japan
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    The Spirit of Japan

    The Spirit of Japan (1916) is a speech by Rabindranath Tagore. Published after he received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Spirit of Japan is a powerful lecture on Japanese culture in...
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  • Perversion and Modern Japan Perversion and Modern Japan
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    Perversion and Modern Japan

    How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki's canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make...
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  • The Artist as Professional in Japan
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    The Artist as Professional in Japan

    Through individual case studies involving the professions of sculptor, painter, potter, printmaker, and architect, this book addresses the question about what it meant to be an artist in Japan from...
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  • Miss Nume of Japan
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    Miss Nume of Japan

    When Orito and Num were young children, their fathers, who were good friends, decided that one day their children would be betrothed. But before they marry, Orito is expected to complete his...
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  • A Cultural History of Late Meiji Japan A Cultural History of Late Meiji Japan
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    A Cultural History of Late Meiji Japan

    Scholarship on Japan's development from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century has, perhaps quite understandably, been dominated by attention given to Japan's emergence...
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  • One Hundred Poems from Old Japan
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    One Hundred Poems from Old Japan

    'One of the most respected and oft-quoted compilations of the Japanese poetic canon...A must-read for anyone interested in Japanese culture or poetry in general.' William Scott Wilson, renowned...
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  • The Japanese Martyrs The Japanese Martyrs
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    The Japanese Martyrs

    This book tells the story of the Catholic missionaries who came to Japan in the 16th century, and the persecution they faced at the hands of the ruling authorities. The author focuses on the lives...
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  • The Demimonde in Japanese Literature The Demimonde in Japanese Literature
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    The Demimonde in Japanese Literature

    From the Edo-period works of Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Saikaku Iharu, to modern texts by Nagai Kafû, Tanizaki Junichiro, and Nobel-prize winner Kawabata Yasunari, the Japanese literary canon is filled...
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  • Japanese Yokai and Other Supernatural Beings
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    Japanese Yokai and Other Supernatural Beings

    Superb Yokai images from the world's leading museums and private collections! Japan's vast pantheon of supernatural creatures includes demons (yokai), monsters, ogres (oni), ghosts...
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  • Public Properties Public Properties
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    Public Properties

    In the late nineteenth century, Japan's new Meiji government established museums to showcase a national aesthetic heritage. Inspired by Western museums and expositions, these institutions were...
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  • Teaching Romanticism Teaching Romanticism
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    Teaching Romanticism

    Romanticism is widely taught at universities across the globe and is considered integral to the study of British and European literature. Teaching Romanticism addresses the extensive impact of recent...
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  • The Spirit of Japanese Poetry The Spirit of Japanese Poetry
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    The Spirit of Japanese Poetry

    The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914) is a collection of essays by Yone Noguchi. Although he is widely recognized as a leading poet in English and Japanese of the modernist period, Noguchi was also a...
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    The American Diary of a Japanese Girl The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
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    The American Diary of a Japanese Girl

    The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (1901) is a novel by Yone Noguchi. Published in New York alongside illustrations by Genjiro Yeto, the novel was styled as a fascinating tell-all written by a...
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  • On Uneven Ground
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    On Uneven Ground

    The history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Tokyo, yet cultural activity in the country's regional cities and rural towns was...
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  • Selected Works of D.t. Suzuki, Volume Iv
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    Selected Works of D.t. Suzuki, Volume Iv

    Daisetsu Teitar? Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for...
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  • Zen Classics
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    Zen Classics

    This is a companion volume to The Koan and The Zen Canon, by the same editors. The first volume collected original essays on koan collections, recorded sayings of individual masters, histories of...
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  • English Studies Beyond the 'Center'
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    English Studies Beyond the 'Center'

    This book addresses the shape of English studies beyond the ‘center’ by analyzing how the discipline has developed, and by considering how lessons from this analysis relate to the discipline as a...
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    Inventing the Classics
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    Inventing the Classics

    Today the term "Japanese literary classics" implies such texts as the Man'yoshu, Kojiki, Tale of Genji, Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, and the works of Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho, which are...
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  • The Taiheiki
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    The Taiheiki

    An epic saga of samurai warfare in medieval JapanThis celebrated literary classic has delighted generations of Japanese. In its pages, you will find a vivid contemporary description of the...
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  • British Romanticism in Asia British Romanticism in Asia
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    British Romanticism in Asia

    This book examines the reception of British Romanticism in India and East Asia (including China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan). Building on recent scholarship on "Global Romanticism", it develops a...
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  • Figures of Resistance Figures of Resistance
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    Figures of Resistance

    In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of...
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  • From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl
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    From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl

    As in the United States, fairy-tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary...
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  • Vagabond (VIZBIG Edition), Vol. 6
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    Vagabond (VIZBIG Edition), Vol. 6

    Three volumes in one! A prestige treatment of Inoue’s epic samurai series with bonus content, color pages, storyboard samples and more!Real-life figure Miyamoto Musashi was the most celebrated...
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  • Lingua Cosmica
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    Lingua Cosmica

    Forging a new canon for international SF Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and...
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  • A Concise Companion to Milton
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    A Concise Companion to Milton

    A Concise Companion to MILTON A Concise Companion to Milton provides readers with essential guides to appreciating the works of John Milton, and to understanding the great influence they have had on...
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  • Botchan
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    Botchan

    Botchan has a chip on his shoulder. His elder brother is his parents' obvious favorite and Botchan only receives any attention at all if he misbehaves. After his parents die, Botchan is cut...
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    This Perversion Called Love
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    This Perversion Called Love

    This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan's most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversion in...
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  • A Daughter of the Samurai
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    A Daughter of the Samurai

    A Daughter of the Samurai (1925) is an autobiography by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto. Born in Japan, she was sent to the United States to fulfill an arranged marriage with a Japanese merchant. Raised in a...
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  • Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s
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    Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s

    Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe...
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  • Caliban's Filibuster Caliban's Filibuster
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    Caliban's Filibuster

    Caliban, an embittered screenwriter of B-grade movies, yearns to be a great novelist. He is torn between the harsh reality of gainful employment, its inauthenticity, and the conflicting impulse to...
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  • The Honorable Miss Moonlight
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    The Honorable Miss Moonlight

    When the day of Lord Saito Gonji's birthday arrives, Gonji celebrates with dread, knowing that in a week, he will be married. Sent away in his youth for samurai training, and then to higher...
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    Gender and National Literature
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    Gender and National Literature

    Presents a new understanding of the way that classic works of Japanese literature have been received and understood within the framework of national literature studies in Japan Boldly challenging...
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  • Zen Masters
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    Zen Masters

    Extending their successful series of collections on Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright present a fifth volume, on what may be the most important topic of all - Zen Masters. Following two volumes on Zen...
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  • The Story of Yone Noguchi
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    The Story of Yone Noguchi

    The Story of Yone Noguchi (1914) is a memoir by Yone Noguchi. Both a leading modernist poet in English and Japanese and a dedicated literary critic who advocated for the cross-pollination of national...
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  • Kipling in India Kipling in India
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    Kipling in India

    This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling's connection with India, its people, culture, languages, and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling's works attracted interest among a...
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  • Bodhidharma's Secret Bodhidharma's Secret
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    Bodhidharma's Secret

    When the murder of an elderly Buddhist monk, who was also the keeper of a great secret, is discovered by the police, Ando Osho, a reputed Buddhist scholar, is appointed to investigate the case. The...
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  • The Violet Fairy Book
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    The Violet Fairy Book

    Originally published in 1901, The Violet Fairy Book is a compilation of international fables from various locales including Japan, Romania, Portugal, Lithuania, Serbia and Africa. Andrew Lang...
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  • Caste and Outcast
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    Caste and Outcast

    Caste and Outcast (1923) is an autobiography by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Published the year after Mukerji moved from San Francisco to New York City, Caste and Outcast is a moving autobiographical...
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  • Marion
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    Marion

    Born into a large family of Asian ethnicity in Canada, Marion Ascough always felt like an outsider, not just because of her heritage, but also because of her aspiration to be an artist. At home, her...
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