The Tokaido Road

Download or read book The Tōkaidō Road written by Jilly Traganou and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comparative study of representations of the Tôkaidô road, the most important route of Japan during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) eras.

Download or read book Rediscovering the Old Tokaido written by Patrick Carey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in an English language edition published outside Japan, all 55 prints of Hiroshige’s ‘Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido’ are reproduced in full colour, supporting a detailed and intriguing account of the author's rediscovery on foot of the historic 303-mile road from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Remarkably, the Old Tokaido can still be found in many locations and photographs of the modern parallel the old.

Download or read book Shank's Mare written by Ikku Jippensha and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic Japanese story of humor and adventure is available here for the first time in digital format. A pair of irrepressible scoundrels are the heroes of this madcap chronicle of adventure, full of earthy humor, along the great highway from Tokyo to Kyoto. The lusty tale of their disreputable doings is Japan's most celebrated comic novel. Shank's Mare was originally issued serially beginning in 1802, and was so successful that the author wrote numerous sequels, appearing year by year, until 1822. This novel portrays all the varied colors in Japan's Tokugawa era and its humor typifies the brash and devil-may-care attitude of the residents of Tokyo, both then and now.

Download or read book Japanese Inn written by Oliver Statler and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. Travellers and guests flow into and past the inn — warriors on the march, lovers fleeing to a new life, pilgrims on their merry expeditions, great men going to and from the capital. The story of the Minaguchi-ya is a social history of Japan through 400 years, a ringside seat to some of the most stirring events of a stirring period. ‘Statler has created a strangely beautiful book that succeeds in conveying intact not only a great deal of its history but the mood of that land. The result is sheer delight. Japanese Inn is the work of a master craftsman; it is so well conceived that the narrative moves from past to present in the same paragraph without the slightest confusion to the reader; it is so well written that only in retrospect is one aware of its remarkable flawless style. Through the author’s particular magic, the stories unfold as one narrative, as beautifully and memorably as the unrolling of a long Japanese scroll.’—CURT GENTRY ‘The reader learns much of Japan’s past — and, as is inevitable in a study of that country, of present-day Japanese as well. Mr Statler’s prose succeeds in evoking the pageantry of the past in the brilliant color of the kabuki stage. Nothing seems to have been overlooked by the author. Mr Statler’s book is Japanese history made easy, and grand entertainment.’— NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ‘Much of it is told in fictional form. Some of the episodes have come out of family annals and memories, some from the records of the temple; some are imagined; but all could have happened ... Mr Statler has told the story vividly and with sympathy. It moves. It has the authentic feel of Japan.’—INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

Download or read book Pachinko Road written by Craig Mod and published by . This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration written by Jack Ronald Hillier and published by Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1980 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The text of this book is an expanded version of the 'Cohn' Lecture which I gave at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in 1976, and the appendix of books with illustrations by Hokusai is intended to supersede the list that I first drew up for my 1954 Hokusai ... "--preface.

Download or read book Japanese Pilgrimage written by Oliver Statler and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: