SENJI - 人文・思想・社会 1

Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel-and after more than a millennium, this seminal work continues to enchant readers throughout the world. Lady Murasaki Shikibu and her tale's hero, Prince Genji, have had an unmatched i……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

[About the Book] ーA Great and Unique Philosophy- Philosophy and religion are generally considered distinct disciplines. However, Kitaro Nishida, one of Japan’s most renowned philosophers who established a unique intellectual world known as Nishida Philosophy, regarded philosophy and religion as i……続きを見る

＜全文英語表記＞ A tattoo style book packed with 200 beautiful kanji designs (50 single characters, 80 two-character phrases, and 70 three-character phrases). Each one comes with an accurate English translation by a Japanese editor, so you get not only cool designs but also the real meaning behind……続きを見る

Wrap anything from a wine bottle to a yoga mat with this practical Japanese fabric-wrapping book. Long before today's eco-friendly philosophy of "reduce, reuse, recycle" entered America's collective consciousness, furoshiki--the Japanese method of wrapping things with fabric--flourished as a time……続きを見る

This book is highly significant in that it contains the words of military officials, journalists, diplomats and others who were in Nanjing in 1937. The so-called “Nanjing Incident” is a very controversy issue – even what to name it is controversial. The most obvious path to take to arrive at the f……続きを見る

Long before today's eco-friendly philosophy of "reduce, reuse, recycle" entered America's collective consciousness, furoshiki-the Japanese method of wrapping things with fabric-flourished as a time-honored and practical art form. In Wrapping With Fabric, Etsuko Yamada-born into a long-line of furo……続きを見る

In Japan, where the number of foreign residents is increasing rapidly, how are migrant children whose mother tongue is not Japanese learning their mother tongue and Japanese at school? We call them CLD (Culturally Linguistically Diverse) children (Cummins, 1991). This book is the result of the fir……続きを見る

The film Gunkanjima (Battleship Island) was first shown in Korea in August 2017, a work of fiction created to bash Japan and nothing else. Within a couple of weeks, around 6 million Koreans saw the film. The film was advertised in the US, for a week, with the help of the New York City Times Square……続きを見る