Author: Martin Gliman
Publisher: Lulu
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This is the story of Namiko. She travels to Oxford (England) to improve her English. After having returned to Japan she starts writing seventy-nine love-letters
A Japanese Dream in Seventy-Nine Letters
Author: Martin Gliman
Publisher: Lulu
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This is the story of Namiko. She travels to Oxford (England) to improve her English. After having returned to Japan she starts writing seventy-nine love-letters
Publisher: Lulu
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This is the story of Namiko. She travels to Oxford (England) to improve her English. After having returned to Japan she starts writing seventy-nine love-letters
Seventy-Nine Letters from Kyoto
Author: Martin Gliman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781470075880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This is the story of Namiko. She travels from Kyoto to Oxford to improve her English. After having returned to Japan she starts writing seventy-nine love-letters.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781470075880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This is the story of Namiko. She travels from Kyoto to Oxford to improve her English. After having returned to Japan she starts writing seventy-nine love-letters.
My Seventy Nine Years in Hawaii
Author: Chung Kun Ai
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Chinese businessman's life in Hawaii who created City Mill. The story includes famous figures like Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. Some genealogical information with numerous images -- ebay.com
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Chinese businessman's life in Hawaii who created City Mill. The story includes famous figures like Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. Some genealogical information with numerous images -- ebay.com
Last Lecture
Author: Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9781663608192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9781663608192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Continent
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Old Home Week Celebration, August 19-22, 1904
Author: Centerville Old Home Week Association (Centerville, Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centerville (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centerville (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
An Invisible Friendship
Author: Joyce Grenfell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Peace, a Dream Unfolding
Author: Penney Kome
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Musical Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Japanese Death Poems
Author:
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146291649X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146291649X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.