Tuttle Publishing: 1830 books
by Bong-youn Choy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
This detailed, scholarly history of Korea is a comprehensive political and socioeconomic history from 57 B.C. to modern times, including North and South Korea.
Specializing in Korean industrial structure, economic planning, and administration, the author presents a concise yet readable historical...
by David Hoopes, Diana Tillion
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The winter moonlight-
The Shadow of the totem pole,
Shadow of the spruce.
Alaska in Haiku is the flower of the authors' affectionate observation of life in Alaska and if their love of poetry. Sharing an interest in this shortest of all forms of poetry, they found haiku a most gratifying medium...
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books of 19th century Japanese history and culture.
Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains his most popular. Among the reasons is that here, more than anywhere...
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 1: The Sacred Oath
The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
This exciting new translation with footnotes is more readable than past versions and will appeal to modern readers.
The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty when China...
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 3: Welcome The Tiger
The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This exciting new translation with footnotes is more readable than past versions and will appeal to modern readers.
The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty when China...
Indonesian Idioms and Expressions
Colloquial Indonesian at Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2007
Indonesian Idioms and Expressions is a collection of Indonesian expressions, including proverbs, slang, quotations and acronyms, that offers a commentary on their origins, as well as insights into Indonesian culture, customs, and history. The book is an informal compendium designed to be both educational...
by Hiroshi Naito
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
These twenty-two Japanese tales open to Western readers the world of fantasy in the legendary literature of Japan—a world of ogres, monkeys, goblins, and priest, of spelling-casting and rescuing people.
Rich in variety, Legends of Japan includes tales of the supernatural, magic, and deities,...
My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera
and the Philosophical Foundations of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Published here for the first time in English, My Individualism and The Philosophical Foundations of Literature are essays which explore issues close to famed Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume's heart: the philosophical and cultural significance of isolation, belonging and identity associated with rapid...
Japanese Screens in Miniature
Six Masterpieces of the Momoyama Period
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Japanese Screens in Miniature is a collection of six of Japan's masterpieces reproduced as actual miniature screens, with an introduction to this most colorful, exuberant, and decorative aspects of the Golden Age of Japanese art.
The development of the Japanese screen as an ant form in the...
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1998
When Zen Flesh, Zen Bones was published in 1957 it became an instant sensation with an entire generation of readers who were just beginning to experiment with Zen. Over the years it has inspired leading American Zen teachers, students, and practitioners. Its popularity is as high today as ever.
Zen...
by Kodo Matsunami
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Introducing Buddhism is a classic, authoritative collection of essays on Buddhism
It expresses the author's desire to write a comprehensive book on Buddhism from within-a book that will lead the reader to an understanding of Buddhism as it existed in the past and continues to exist today. In...
Japanese Foods that Heal
Using Traditional Japanese Ingredients to Promote Health, Longevity, & Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
In Japan, the old ways have prevailed well into the 21st century.
Small family run shops still make miso, tofu, shoyu, tamari, amazake and other traditional healing foods the same way they were made centuries ago. Perched on ladders, tamari makers gently stir fermenting brew in two-hundred-year-old...
Heart of God
Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore (1861— 1941) is considered the most important poet of modern-day India. He was also a distinguished author, educator, social reformer, and philosopher. Today, Tagore along with Mahatma Gandhi is prized as a foremost intellectual...
Bali: Sekala & Niskala
Essays on Religion, Ritual, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
"The best book on Bali for the serious visitor…Has the freshness of personal experience."—Dr. Hildred Geertz, author of Kinship in Bali and Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University
In Bali, what you see—sekala—is a colorful world of ceremony, ritual, dance, and drama....