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  • Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking saké and…
    An Imperial Concubine's Tale

    An Imperial Concubine's Tale - Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in…

    By G. G. Rowley rating of short cover   ( 1 customer rating) Columbia University Press, December 2012 ISBN: 9780231530873 Asian, Japan Language:  English
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  • A Chinese Physician is the portrait of a 16th century medical writer and clinical practitioner. Drawing on socio-economic/biographic, textual, and gender analysis along side a variety of sources, from…
    A Chinese Physician

    A Chinese Physician - Wang Ji and the Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories

    Needham Research Institute Series By Joanna Grant rating of short cover   ( 1 customer rating) Taylor and Francis, April 2013 ISBN: 9781134430741 Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies Language:  English
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  • The medieval era of Japan was marked by a century of civil strife known as the Warring States period (1469-1573). The century prior had seen the sword replace the bow and arrow as the chief weapon of…
    Famous Samurai: Kamiizumi Nobutsuna

    Famous Samurai: Kamiizumi Nobutsuna

    Famous Samurai By William de Lange rating of short cover   ( 3 customer ratings) Floating World Editions, January 2013 ISBN: 9781891640681 Asian, Japan Language:  English
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  • Yagyu Munenori was a great swordsman from the Nara Basin of Japan. During the great wars of the medieval era, his clan had first lost its castle, then its lands, until finally it was thrown upon the…
    Famous Samurai: Yagyu Munenori

    Famous Samurai: Yagyu Munenori

    Famous Samurai By William de Lange rating of short cover   ( 3 customer ratings) Floating World Editions, January 2013 ISBN: 9781891640674 Asian, Japan Language:  English
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  • After more than two centuries of civil strife Japan was finding its way back to peace and order during the Period of Unification (1573-1615). The final drive came in the fall of 1600, when the massed…
    Famous Samurai: Ono Tadaaki

    Famous Samurai: Ono Tadaaki

    Famous Samurai By William de Lange rating of short cover   ( 2 customer ratings) Floating World Editions, January 2013 ISBN: 9781891640667 Asian, Japan Language:  English
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  • It has been customary in the appraisal of the different approaches to the study of Japan anthropology to invoke an East-West dichotomy positing hegemonic ‘Western’ systems of thought against a more…
    Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy

    Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy - Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen

    Japan Anthropology Workshop Series - 1 rating of short cover   ( 1 customer rating) Taylor and Francis, July 2006 ISBN: 9781134152919 Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies Language:  English
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  • The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies' official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool's sensational bestselling books on the Axis' war crimes decided the public's opinion. The…
    The Knights Of Bushido

    The Knights Of Bushido - A History of Japanese War Crimes During WWII

    By Lord Russell of Liverpool rating of short cover   ( 1 customer rating) Skyhorse Publishing, May 2013 ISBN: 4170000000794 Asian, Japan Language:  English
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  • The Battle of Okehazama put Oda Nobunaga on the world stage forever changed Japanese history. His victory over Imagawa Yoshimoto against impossible odds were more staggering. Being outnumbered almost…
    Oda Nobunaga: The Battle of Okehazama

    Oda Nobunaga: The Battle of Okehazama

    By Les Paterson rating of short cover   ( 3 customer ratings) Jetlag Press, December 2008 ISBN: 9780979039744 Asian, Asia Language:  English
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  • Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call “religion.” There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the…
    The Invention of Religion in Japan

    The Invention of Religion in Japan

    By Jason Ananda Josephson rating of short cover   ( 7 customer ratings) University of Chicago Press, October 2012 ISBN: 9780226412351 Reference, History Language:  English
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  • In this volume the author considers what the purpose and method of advanced Japanese studies should be. He believes that the study of Japanese history should be, not an end in itself but an integral…
    Japan in World History

    Japan in World History

    By George Sansom rating of short cover   ( 1 customer rating) Taylor and Francis, September 2010 ISBN: 9780203845066 Asian, Japan Language:  English
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