Author: Sucheta Rawal
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9781684019410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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"Beato is a curious cat exploring different countries around the world. On this trip, he sets out on an adventure to Japan, where he learns calligraphy, dances with robots, and meets sumo wrestlers. www.BeatoGoesTo.com Check out Beato's other adventures in Beato Goes to Greenland, Beato Goes to Israel, and Beato Goes to Indonesia. "
Author: Anne Lacoste
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 160606035X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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The fascinating life and work of an artist who captured some of the first photographs of the Far East are presented in this gorgeous volume.
Author: Terry Bennett
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462907083
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Photography in Japan 1853-1912 is a fascinating visual record of Japanese culture during its metamorphosis from a feudal society to a modern, industrial nation at a time when the art of photography was still in its infancy. The 350 rare and antique photos in this book, most of them published here for the first time, chronicle the introduction of photography in Japan and early Japanese photography. The images are more than just a history of photography in Japan; they are vital in helping to understand the dramatic changes that occurred in Japan during the mid-nineteenth century. These rare Japanese photographs--whether sensational or everyday, intimate or panoramic--document a nation about to abandon its traditional ways and enter the modern era. Taken between 1853 and 1912 by the most important Japanese and foreign photographers working in Japan, this is the first book to document the history of early photography in Japan a comprehensive and systematic way.
Author: Sucheta Rawal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684019434
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Beato is a curious cat that explores different countries around the world. On this trip, he sets out on an adventure to Brazil, where he plays different sports, dances at Carnival, and encounters wild animals in the Amazon rainforest.
Author: David Odo
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0873654080
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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When Japan opened its doors to the West in the 1860s, delicately hand-tinted photographic prints of Japanese people and landscapes were among its earliest and most popular exports. David Odo studies the collection of Japanese photographs at Harvard’s Peabody Museum and the ways they were produced, acquired, and circulated in the nineteenth century.
Author: Christine Guth
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295984018
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Charles Longfellow, son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, arrived in Yokohama in 1871, intending a brief visit, and stayed for two years. He returned to Boston laden with photographs, curios, and art objects, as well as the elaborate tattoos he had "collected" on his body. His journals, correspondence, and art collection dramatically demonstrate America’s early impressions of Japanese culture, and his personal odyssey illustrates the impact on both countries of globetrotting tourism. Interweaving Longfellow’s experiences with broader issues of tourism and cultural authenticity, Christine Guth discusses the ideology of tourism and the place of Japan within nineteenth-century round-the-world travel. This study goes beyond simplistic models of reciprocal influence and authenticity to a more synergistic account of cross-cultural dynamics.
Author: Sucheta Rawal
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9781631776304
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Based on real characters and adventures, Beato [the cat] learns about the geography, animals, sports, religions, dance, food and more with his new friend, Putu, as they travel around Indonesia. This book is meant to inspire young global citizens to travel, learn, and embrace different cultures."--Amazon.com.
Author: Amy Stanley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501188542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces—and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval—she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. “A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy” (The Wall Street Journal), Stranger in the Shogun’s City is “a vivid, polyphonic portrait of life in 19th-century Japan [that] evokes the Shogun era with panache and insight” (National Review of Books).
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004274316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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Japan on the Silk Road provides for the first time the historical background indispensable for understanding Japan's current perspectives and policies in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Japanese diplomats, military officers, archaeologists, and linguists traversed the Silk Road, involving Japan in the Great Game and exploring ancient civilizations.The book exposes the entanglements of pre-war Japanese Pan-Asianism with Pan-Islamism, Turkic nationalism and Mongolian independence as a global history of imperialism. Japanese connections to Ottoman Turkey, India, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, and China at the same time reveal a discrete global narrative of cosmopolitanism and transnationality. The global team of scholars brings to light Japan’s intellectual and political encounters with the peoples and cultures of Asia, in particular Turks and Persians, Hindus and Muslims of India, Mongolians and the Uyghur of Inner Asia, and Muslims in China. Contributors include: Ian Nish, Christopher Szpilman, Sven Saaler, Selcuk Esenbel, Li Narangoa, Komatsu Hisao, Brij Tankha, Erdal Küçükyalcın, A. Merthan Dündar, Katayama Akio, Miyuki Aoki Girardelli, Klaus Röhborn, Mehmet Ölmez, Banu Kaygusuz, Oğuz Baykara, and Satō Masako.
Author: Susan Drayton
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9781684010745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Seth knows he's a dragon, but he isn't so sure of anything else. When he can't get his thoughts straight, he flies through the sky and visits a group of fairies nearby. With the mystery of Mother Earth and the fairies' magic, Seth learns what he must do to rid himself of worry. Can he make the right choice?
