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Korea's traditional love poetry is little known in the West. This anthology contains examples of all genres: vernacular to long lyrical poems. A witty informative commentary links the poems and sets them in context.

The first comprehensive book-length study in over half a century of the celebrated Japanese tea master Rikyu, considered the father of the Tea Ceremony (cha-no-yu) that fully contextualizes tea in politics, aesthetics, ritual and art

First published in Boston in 1881 and rarely available today, Japanese Episodes reveals House as a writer, commentator and observer of things Japanese at his best and was to inspire Lafcadio Hearn in the same pursuit twenty years later.

First publication in English of Soseki's travels through Manchuria on the then recently-acquired South Manchurian Railway. 6-week travelogue including boat from Osaka to Dairen, railway up the Liaodong Peninsular to Fushun. Many descriptions of Manchuria.

For the first time in an English language edition published outside Japan, all 55 prints of Hiroshige's 'Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido' are reproduced in full colour. Remarkably, the Old Tokaido can still be found in many locations and photographs of the modern parallel the old.

Writers of materials included are generally from the lower rungs of society, they provide an insight into the attitudes of citizens who are often neglected in accounts of the Allied Occupation, providing scholars, researchers, etc. with a valuable new dimension to our understanding of this Occupation history and its impact on the Japanese nation.

This thought-provoking volume provides a valuable overarching framework towards a more informed understanding of how South Korea's relationship with the outside world has evolved in the twentieth century and the manner in which it is likely to do business in the twenty-first.

Based on research in Chinese and Japanese, as well as interviews with comedians, food service professionals, entertainment managers, store-owners, customers, and scholars of food history, Kushner explores the history of ramen and Japan's noodle culture over the last 1, 000 years.

This is the first detailed descriptive grammar in English (indeed, any language other than Japanese) dedicated to the Western Old Japanese, which was spoken in the Kansai region of Japan during the seventh and eighth centuries. The grammar is divided into two volumes, with the first dealing with sources, script, phonology, lexicon and nominals.

With more than 200 colour plates, this volume explores the vast heritage of Korean ink brush painting, providing a rich panorama that stretches across the entire spectrum of Korean art - including painting, pottery, calligraphy and literature, which will have wide appeal, not least to art lovers and students of Korean Studies.

This volume brings together twenty-six of Professor Doi's principal papers on the subject of the Japanese psyche and the subject of dependency (amae) published in English over the last fifty years, beginning with his paper on Japanese Psychiatry (1955) and concluding with 'Are Psychological Concepts of Japanese Origin Relevent?', 2002.

Brian Burke-Gaffney provides a detailed account of the activities of Holme, Ringer & Co., the leading foreign enterprise in western Japan prior to the Second World War, and describes the remarkable achievements and tragedies of the Ringer family.

This candid memoir is a gripping personal tale of cultural schizophrenia. Kazuko Winter was the daughter of a high-ranking Japanese diplomat, raised and educated outside her native Japan in India, South Africa, Australia, and Oxford, England, in the 1950s and 60s. She also spent time with her parents in Nigeria and Paraguay. Never fully at home anywhere, she suffered from an increasing sense of isolation that once led her to the brink of suici...

This study is principally concerned with military relations between England and Japan and the ambivalence that informed their relationship during the first half of the twentieth century, a subject that has been closely researched by the author for over thirty years. In conclusion, he offers a twenty-first century perspective of times past and times present. Key chapters cover British military and naval observers of the Russo-Japanese War, Brit...

This anthropological monograph contains the results of recent fieldwork conducted among the Evenki people in East Siberia, Russian Federation. It is an ethnography of a Siberian people that will be welcomed by professional social anthropologists as well as by specialists in Russian and Siberian Studies.

In Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute, Guillaume Jacques undertakes a systematic comparison of Tangut with modern Rgyalrongic languages, and proposes a new analysis of Tangut phonology and morphology in typological and historical perspective. Dans l'ouvrage Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute, Guillaume Jacques effectue une comparison systematique du tangoute avec les languages rgyalrong...

Everyday Life in Joseon-Era Korea examines how the momentous changes of the time impacted the economic and social lives of the common people in the Joseon period (1392-1910).

This important new study of Kita Ikki, one of Japan's influential pre-war ideologues, focuses on his three principal works: "The National Polity and Pure Socialism, " "The Unofficial History of the Chinese Revolution, " and "The Fundamental Principles for the Reorganization of Japan" (Kaizo hoan taiko).

This work will be useful as a reference tool for those interested in the history of the Mongolic languages providing them with a significant body of lexicon from a late Middle Mongol vernacular source.

A charming memoir by Yuki Yoshida, wife of Shigeru Yoshida who became Japan's post-war prime minister of national reconstruction. Includes fascinating observations on diplomatic life, visits to the English countryside, friendship with Mrs neville Chamberlain, visit to UK of Prince and Princess Chichibu.