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Strange Tales from Japan presents 99 spine-tingling tales of ghosts, yokai, demons, shapeshifters and trickster animals who inhabit remote reaches of the Japanese countryside. In his introduction, renowned translator William Scott Wilson explains the role these stories play in local Japanese cult……続きを見る

This masterly translation by Edward G Seidensticker, first published in 1976 with an informative Introduction, does not attempt to supplant Waley's, but rather to reflect with more accuracy and with less elaboration the work that Lady Murasaki actually created while in the service of the empress A……続きを見る

Strange Japanese Yokai assembles an extraordinary collection of mysterious creatures in every possible shape and size, each with their own unique back story. Some are well-known, others obscure. The one thing they share in common is that they are creepy and weird! The 122 different Yokai describe……続きを見る

The traditional Japanese concept of ma refers to a pause or a space, "the moment of no action, the stillness and silence that is filled with more powerful energy than the moments of action" on the classic Noh stage. It also refers to the pauses taken in between notes by a shakuhachi flute player o……続きを見る

[Produkterklärung] Eine Sammlung von Gedichten, die die „Freude“ und „Traurigkeit“ des Lebens anschaulich zum Ausdruck bringen, von einem Autor mit verschiedenen Gesichtern, wie einem Pflanzenforscher. Den Alltag und die Welt mit scharfem und direktem Blick anstarrend, zeichnet sie den inneren Sc……続きを見る

日本の違憲審査制の原点と現点をドイツ語で発信してきた著者の20年余にわたる研究の集大成。本書により、違憲審査制をその主体によって憲法裁判所型と司法裁判所型に分け、両者の相違点を強調する二元論によって狭められた考察の視界が広がる。著者は、そのより広い視野から、日本の違憲審査の制度とその運用を、ドイツの……続きを見る

In the history of Japanese Buddhism, as time passed, the idea of an exclusive practice that had been advocated by Hōnen gradually evolved in new ways, due to the continuing emergence of important Buddhist figures. Among these, Ippen, who was active in the late Kamakura period, developed the ideas ……続きを見る

A chance discovery of sixty-odd works of art in a filing cabinet in Kyoto University’s Department of Geography in 2014 triggered an investigation which soon morphed into a multi-disciplinary research project seeking to understand their origins and significance. The works were reproductions of sket……続きを見る