Japan category: 1648 books
In Search of the Ninja
The Historical Truth of Ninjutsu
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Who were the real Ninja, what skills did they possess and how were they employed in warfare? Based upon new translations of the three most important ninja scrolls and other authentic documents, some never seen before. Lost in modern myth, false history, and general misinterpretation, the Ninja have...
Ninja Skills
The Authentic Ninja Training Manual
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This is the world's only illustrated guide to the real ninja teachings of historic Japan. These original techniques are presented in a highly accessible 'how-to' format that combines easy-to-follow text with a fresh, contemporary design that includes step-by-step photographs.
This is the first...
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds
A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. The most comprehensive compendium of short medieval Japanese fiction in...
by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses. They proved a decisive addition to the Japanese armoury, as for centuries the samurai had fought only with bow, sword and spear....
For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution
An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Fiction created by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization, dramatic inequality, and imperial expansion. In Japan, literary youth, men and women, sought to turn their imaginations and craft to tackling the ensuing injustices,...
Shinsengumi
The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps is the true story of the notorious samurai corps formed in 1863 to arrest or kill the enemies of the Tokugawa Shogun.
The only book in English about the Shinsengumi, it focuses on the corps' two charismatic leaders, Kondo Isami and Hijikata Toshizo,...
by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The landscape of 16thand 17th-century Japan was dominated by the graceful and imposing castles constructed by the powerful 'daimyo' of the period. In this the most turbulent era in Japanese history, these militarily sophisticated structures provided strongholds for the consolidation and control of...
Christ's Samurai
The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the innermost circle of believers. Its priests preached love and kindness, but helped local warlords acquire firearms. They encouraged believers to cast aside their...
Nagasaki
The massacre of the innocent and unknowing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The war was coming to an end at last. The people of Nagasaki knew this as they desperately tried to survive each day's shortages of food and warmth - ordinary people going about their lives as normally as they could manage. People like Nagai, the doctor who'd just been told he had leukemia; Father...
Onnagata
A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important aspect of kabuki since its beginnings in the 17th century. In a “labyrinth” of gendering, the practice...
A Discipline on Foot
Inventing Japanese Native Ethnography, 1910–1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Exploring the fundamental question of how a new discipline comes into being, this groundbreaking book tells the story of the emergence of native ethnology in Imperial Japan, a “one nation” social science devoted to the study of the Japanese people. Roughly corresponding to folklore studies or...
Basho's Narrow Road
Spring and Autumn Passages
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and...
by Jonathan Parshall; Anthony Tully
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Pranges bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great...
by Henry P. Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This vintage book contains a detailed introduction to Japanese art, with historical information, directions for using materials, details on influential artists and pieces, and much more. “On The Laws Of Japanese Painting” constitutes a must-read for those with a practical interest in Japanese...