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“The Story of the Peony Lantern” by the Chinese author Qu You (1347–1433) traveled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, set in fourteenth-……続きを見る

Les Éditions Rhéartis, présentent dans sa gamme patrimoine, les œuvres de la philosophie antique et notamment les textes de la période médiévale japonaise. Le traité des cinq roues, est un des rares……続きを見る

This book examines the decision-making processes behind the formulation and evolution of the Japanese government’s official stance regarding diplomatic problems connected with the history of Japan’s……続きを見る

Buddhist Bells and Dragons: Under and Over Water, In and Out of Japan recovers the essential but unrecognized roles of Buddhist temple bells in the history of art, religious studies, and the history……続きを見る

If you wish to know really any people, it is necessary to have a thorough knowledge of their history, including their mythology, legends and folk-lore: customs, habits and traits of character, which……続きを見る

A History of the Japanese People (Vol.2) From the establishment of the Bakufu, Japanese art separated into two schools, that of Kamakura and that of Kyoto. The latter centered in the Imperial Court,……続きを見る

The Empire’s Quiet Calculations History often remembers the victors with admiration and the defeated with caution. But sometimes, buried beneath the rubble of a fallen empire lies something far more……続きを見る

Challenging the notion of the nonreligious in Japan being religious through tradition and institution, this book demonstrates how negativity and antipathy for religion relate to religious decline in……続きを見る

NOTE: Volume 2 of the print edition was dividend into Vols. 2.1 and 2.2 to make two e-book editions. What would you like to obtain from your research and practice of an Okinawan martial art? For an ……続きを見る

« Le Japon prend peu de place dans les préoccupations politiques de l’Europe, et cependant les événements qui se passent dans ce pays présentent, à tous les points de vue, un intérêt considérable, s……続きを見る

Pour Sakanoue, voici venu le moment du départ pour la Chine, où elle va accompagner les ambassades japonaises à la cour des Tang. D’émerveillement en découvertes, la jeune femme va pouvoir s’abreuve……続きを見る

L’intégrale de La poétesse des impératrices regroupe les 3 tomes de la saga médiévale japonaise de Jocelyne Godard. En l’an 686, quand l’impératrice Jito règne, le Japon est en pleine émergence. Le ……続きを見る

De retour de Chine, et veuve du prince Hosumi, Sakanoue va se rapprocher de la cour de Nara, où ses grands talents de poétesse et sa connaissance de la langue chinoise la placent en confortable posi……続きを見る

Banzaï ! Dix mille ans de vie ! C’est le cri de joie du peuple japonais quand un nouvel empereur monte sur le trône. En l’an 686, quand l’impératrice Jito règne, le Japon est en pleine émergence. Le……続きを見る

Ce livre fait partie d’une série de publications destinées aux personnes qui veulent connaître l’histoire de la civilisation japonaise, sa langue et sa littérature. Il se compose de douze conférence……続きを見る

The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan by Epic Epoch (Disclaimer: This is an original work of historical non-fiction by Epic Epoch.) How did a feudal island nation rise into a modern empireーand fall i……続きを見る

A new assessment of the British and Commonwealth contribution to the defeat of Japan in the Pacific. The monumental struggle fought against Imperial Japan in the Asia/Pacific theater during World Wa……続きを見る

In March 1944, Japan launched its audacious overland invasion of India from Burma. Taken by surprise, the British rear areas lay exposed and undefended except for the previously untested 50 Indian P……続きを見る

The Evacuation of Singapore to the Prison Camps of Sumatra aims to describe the events prior to, during and after the Fall of Singapore and the ways in which former prisoners are remembered on Bangk……続きを見る

Miyamoto Musashi was a legendary figure of the Japanese warrior tradition, dedicated to the pursuit of enlightenment by way of strategy and the sword. A wandering samurai and master of strategy, he ……続きを見る

The illustrated book by Pierre Delorme, The wisdom of sake , includes nine stories that depict life in Japan in the sixteenth century. The protagonists are essentially samurai. But other characters ……続きを見る

The Japanese are distinguished by a yellowish skin, straight black hair, scanty beard, almost total absence of hair on the arms, legs, and chest, broadish prominent cheek-bones, and more or less obl……続きを見る

Qui pouvait être mieux placé que Pierre Delorme pour nous faire voyager dans le Japon mythique des samouraïs du seizième siècle ? Le Japon est une des nombreuses passions de cet auteur. Il connaît c……続きを見る

The Mount Aso, or Aso-San, is a living volcano in the heart of the island Kiushiu, Japan, whose peaks rise to a height of several thousand feet out of a gigantic bowl. This bowl, which is many miles……続きを見る

This book presents a brief history of early men in Japan. There is no race of people in whose origin we are more interested than in that of the Japanese. Their history going so completely back for n……続きを見る

Claudius Ferrand, missionnaire apostolique, fut ordonné en 1891 et partit pour le Japon l’année suivante. Il fut directeur diocésain des œuvres de jeunesse à Tokyo et fondateur des maisons d’étudian……続きを見る

There are beauties and characteristics of poetry of any country which cannot be plainly seen by those who are born with them; it is often a foreigner's privilege to see them and use them, without a ……続きを見る

On trouvera dans ce volume quinze articles issus du colloque international « Les échanges culturels au Moyen Âge : du dialogue à la construction des cultures », tenu les 18 et 19 novembre 2017 au mu……続きを見る

En quoi consiste le destin exceptionnel de Sugawara no Michizane, un lettré du ixe siècle qui devint un dieu et inspira un culte qui demeure, aujourd’hui encore, extrêmement populaire ? L’influence ……続きを見る

Sumérgete en el enigmático mundo de las kunoichi, las mujeres ninja del Japón feudal, en esta obra única que revela los secretos, habilidades y el legado oculto de estas guerreras invisibles. A trav……続きを見る