Rowing the Pacific: 7,000 Miles from Japan to San Francisco
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Storms, fatigue, equipment failure, intense hunger, and lack of water are just a few of the...
Japanese Knife Sharpening: With Traditional Waterstones
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This is the ultimate guide to sharpening with traditional waterstones for all owners of Japanese...
Zen Landscapes: Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics
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The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a...
Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945-1964
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One distinctive feature of post-war Japanese cinema is the frequent recurrence of imagistic and...
The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-century Japan
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Ito
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A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the...
Samurai Wisdom: Lessons from Japan's Warrior Culture
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The ancient warrior culture of Japan produced a sophisticated martial philosophy that we know today...
Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan: The Place of Rice
Charlotte von Verschuer and Wendy Cobcroft
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The majority of studies on the agricultural history of Japan have focused on the public...