Author: Shunkichi AkimotoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Lure of Japan
Author: Shunkichi AkimotoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Lure of Japan
Author: Shunkichi AkimotoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Lure of the Japanese Garden
Author: Alison MainPublisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 9781862545618
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This is a personal introduction to over 100 gardens throughout Japan, with notes on history, access and a glossary of terms. It is a general introduction to garden culture, from its historical background to its spiritual and design bases, and so offers an entry to further appreciation while also acting as an introduction to wider Japanese culture. A large number and variety of gardens are covered in this book, with a broad geographical range stretching throughout the whole of Japan. Hundreds of photographs show the gardens as they appear to ordinary travellers.
The Lure of Pokémon
Author: 中沢新一Publisher:
ISBN: 9784866580654
Category : Pokémon (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
From its humble beginnings as a video game launched in the mid-90s, Pokémon has become a global entertainment franchise, even reaching into the world via augmented reality with the mobile game Pokémon GO. In this book, the author argues that the Pokémon worldview is the best contemporary example of Claude Lévi-Strauss's "savage mind," suggesting that computer games can be viewed as attempts to reconnect the human unconscious with the true, hidden essence of nature. Video games are often thought to draw children out of nature and into isolated, closed spaces. However, the author asserts, the Pokémon series of games, far from standing in opposition to nature, actually seeks to represent the true, hidden essence of the natural world. As the natural environment is transformed around them, the author suggests, children that would once have directly observed and explored nature encounter it through technology instead. Video games and other digital narratives can often be viewed as attempts to reconnect the human unconscious with nature, undoing the separation effected by the scientific, rational thought of Western modernity. The author supports his argument through close analysis of the history and even prehistory of video games in Japanese culture. Drawing on mythology, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and other resources, he explores cultural touchstones like Space Invaders, Ultraman, and the RPG as a genre, showing how their rich, direct expression appeals directly to the urges and impulses within children themselves, helping them come to terms with their place in the world.--adapted from publisher's description.
The Lure of Painted Poetry
Author: Cleveland Museum of ArtPublisher: Hudson Hills Press
ISBN: 9781555953645
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traces the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection of Japenese and Korean Art.
The Inland Sea
Author: Donald RichiePublisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 1611729165
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"An elegiac prose celebration . . . a classic in its genre."—Publishers Weekly In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His existential ruminations on food, culture, and love and his brilliant descriptions of life and landscape are a window into an Old Japan that has now nearly vanished. Included are the twenty black and white photographs by Yoichi Midorikawa that accompanied the original 1971 edition. Donald Richie (1924-2013) was an internationally recognized expert on Japanese culture and film. Yoichi Midorikawa (1915-2001) was one of Japan's foremost nature photographers.
Welfare through Work
Author: Mari MiuraPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801465486
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
High economic growth and relatively equitable distribution were among the most conspicuous characteristics of the postwar Japanese political economy. The lure of the Japanese model, however, has faded since the 1990s. Growth is in short supply and equality a thing of the past. In Welfare through Work, Mari Miura looks in depth at Japan’s social protection system as a factor in the contemporary malaise of the Japanese political economy. The Japanese social protection system should be understood as a system of "welfare through work," Miura suggests, because employment protection has functionally substituted for income maintenance. A gendered dual system in the labor market allowed a high degree of labor market flexibility, which enabled Japan to achieve high employment rates as well as strong legal protections for regular workers. In recent years, conservatives gradually replaced the productivism and cooperatism that had resulted from earlier party politics with neoliberalism, which, in turn, hampered the effectiveness of the welfare through work system. In Miura’s view, the dynamics of partisan competition fostered ideational renewal, just as the political visions and ideologies of the governing party strongly affected the design of the social protection system. In the scenario Miura describes, the partisan dynamics since the 1990s resulted in the policy change that further undermined the social protection system, and the ensuing disruption has been felt throughout Japan.
The Lure of the Vampire
Author: Milly WilliamsonPublisher: Wallflower Press
ISBN: 9781904764403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This title explores the enduring myth of Dracula and vampires and just why it has remained so popular for so long.
The Lure of Japan's Railways
Author: Naotaka HirotaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
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