This book features conversations between Donald Keene, a preeminent scholar of Japanese literature, and Shiba Ryotaro, the author who continued to contemplate the human condition through his origina……続きを見る
Edo Japan Encounters the World continues the conversation, begun nearly twenty years earlier in The People and Culture of Japan, between scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene and historical no……続きを見る
Languages change over time. No matter how hard we try to control and regulate them, they exist in a state of endless metamorphosis. This does not mean, though, that we should simply stand by and wat……続きを見る
著者:Nanyan Guo
出版社: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture
発売日: 2020年08月01日
This book reveals how St. Francis Xavier’s (1506〜1552) dream of evangelizing Japan has been realized by four Catholic missionaries: Aime Villion (1843〜1932), Sauveur Candau (1897〜1955), Hermann H……続きを見る
著者:MATSUOKA Seigo, David Noble
出版社: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture
発売日: 2020年08月01日
Japanese culture is deeply rooted in natureーfrom literature to the visual arts, and from religious practice to daily life. How, when, and why this close association with nature developed is explore……続きを見る
Remnants of Days Past, by Kyoji Watanabe, is an epic journey into Japan’s past. It is a comprehensive look at the Tokugawa rule and the Edo period, an age in which the civilization of “Old Japan” wa……続きを見る
Some people view Tokugawa Japan through the “exotic Edo” lens. Others see the era as Japan’s dark ages. And those who reject both of these extremes tend to think of it as simply the run-up to Japan’……続きを見る
Noh is recognized as one of the oldest and greatest theatrical traditions in the world. Embraced by the samurai elite some 650 years ago, it ultimately permeated every level of Japanese society thro……続きを見る