Stone Bridge Press: 69 books
Anime Explosion!
The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation, Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
An updated look at Japanese animation, and the manga that inspired them. New chapters on "Fullmetal Alchemist," manga/anime by CLAMP, and Satoshi Kon. It brings fans up to date on Studio Ghibli movies after the Academy Award-winning "Spirited Away," new titles like "Negima" and "Ouran High School Host Club," and breakthrough same-sex stories "Gravitation" and "Mother Mary is Watching."
A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors
From the Silent Era to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2013
This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines the works of over 150 filmmakers to uncover what makes their films worth watching.Included...
Dreamland Japan
Writings on Modern Manga
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
This landmark book, first published at the height of the manga boom, is offered in a hardcover collector's edition with a new foreword and afterword. Frederik L. Schodt looks at the classic publications and artists who created modern manga, including the magazines Big Comics and Morning, and artists...
The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition
A Century of Japanese Animation
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
"Impressive, exhaustive, labyrinthine, and obsessive-The Anime Encyclopedia is an astonishing piece of work."-Neil Gaiman
Over one thousand new entries . . . over four thousand updates . . . over one million words. . .
This third edition of the landmark reference work has six...
by Donald Richie
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
This provocative book is a tractate—a treatise—on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that “follow the brush” wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by...
by Arturo Silva
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Roberta, Lang and their friends experience the great Japanese city in all its manifestations to their inquiring, observing, and wandering minds as they banter over the details of a party, a film, Songs Common to Dreams, Tokyo’s history, the Names of Love.Tokio Whip is a distinctly stylistic Yamanote station-by-station tour-de-force discovering the City of Language, the City as Language.
Watching Anime, Reading Manga
25 Years of Essays and Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Anime’s influence can be found in every corner of American media, from film and television to games and graphic arts. And Fred Patten is largely responsible. He was reading manga and watching anime before most of the current generation of fans was born. In fact, it was his active participation in...
Hojoki
Visions of a Torn World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
A luminous translation of the classic Buddhist poem
Kwaidan
Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A miscellany of ghost stories, odd tales, and curious observations by a master storyteller who penetrated Japan more deeply than any other Westerner. Lafcadio Hearn captures the folk spirit and quaint “exoticism” of a land thought at the time to be both mysterious and sinister. Lafcadio...
Yoga Heart
Lines on the Six Perfections
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
"Yoga Heart is a tiny treasure to hold and to behold. Even the typography and colors are food for contemplation...highly recommended for people who will not only read the lines for enjoyment, but also use them for contemplation and right action in life." -New York Journal of BooksThese sixty poems on...
Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun
How I Survived Chinas Wartime Atrocity
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
150,000 innocents died in Changchun at the end of WW2 when Mao's Revolutionary Army laid siege. Japanese girl Homare Endo, then age 7, was traumatized but survived to devote her life to telling the world of the atrocity China now denies. This gripping, firsthand account is tough reading, full of both brutal descriptions and dispassionate commentary on politics and humanity.
by Stuart D. B. Picken
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
• first book to apply ancient Shinto to “New Age” environmentalism • spiritual/inspiration books are strong sellers • can be carried into Nature, used alone or in worship groups • Shinto “prayers” are non-denominational • Shinto is a growth area after Buddhism • Shinto : The Kami...
I Wait for the Moon
100 Haiku of Momoko Kuroda
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Momoko Kuroda (b. 1938) is a remarkable haiku spirit and a powerfully independent Japanese woman. The one hundred poems here—her first collection in English—show her evolution as a poet, her acute lyricism, and her engagement as a writer in issues central to modern Japan: postwar identity, nuclear...
Sake Confidential
A Beyond-the-Basics Guide to Understanding, Tasting, Selection, and Enjoyment
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
With today’s sake drinkers increasingly informed and adventurous, now is the time for a truly expert guide to take you deeper into appreciation of this complex but delightful Japanese beverage, brewed from rice and enjoyed both warm or chilled.And what better mentor than John Gauntner, the Sake...