Art Japonais de L'ère Des Derniers Shoguns
Art Japonais de L'ère Des Derniers Shoguns

Author: Barry Till

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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"Edo is the ancient name for the city of Tokyo and covers the historic period from 1603 until 1868 when Japan was ruled by the shoguns. This military class transformed Edo from a fishing village into one of the largest, most populous and most cultivated cities in the world. This magnificently illustrated publication features a wide variety of Edo art, notably paintings, more » prints, ceramics, lacquerwares, metalwares, textiles, religious art and samurai paraphernalia. These works, and especially the prints known as ukiyo-e, reveal the life and customs of the Edo period, offering unrivaled material for the study of daily life across the breadth of Edo period Japan." Publisher.

Assassin's Creed Dynasty, Volume 1
Assassin's Creed Dynasty, Volume 1

Author: Xu Xianzhe

Publisher: TOKYOPOP

Published: 2021-10-29

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1427870217

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In the 14th year of the Tianbao Era (CE 755) An Lushan, a military governor with ties to the Knights Templar, leads his elite corps to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, and the ill-prepared Tang empire falters under the threat. The two capitals Luoyang and Chang’an fall and China falls under the oppression of the cruel An Lushan. As the Tang dynasty starts to crumble, Li E, a shady Assassin trained by the Hidden Ones in the far West, teams up with Tang loyalists to turn the tide and save both the dynasty and the country from this crisis.

The Way of the Sword
The Way of the Sword

Author: Eiji Yoshikawa

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780671677213

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Translated from the Japanese by Charles E Terry.

The Printmaker's Daughter
The Printmaker's Daughter

Author: Katherine Govier

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-11-22

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 0062100688

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A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place inhistory in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally acclaimedauthor Katherine Govier. In the evocative taleof 19th century Tokyo, The Printmaker’sDaughter delivers an enthrallingtale of one of the world’s great unknown artists: Oei,the mysterious daughter of master printmaker Hokusai, painter of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. In a novel that willresonate with readers of Tracy Chevalier’s Girlwith a Pearl Earring, Lisa See’s SnowFlower and the Secret Fan, and David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,the sights and sensations of an exotic, bygone era form the richly captivatingbackdrop for an intimate, finely wrought story of daughterhood and duty, artand authorship, the immortality of creation and the anonymity of history.

State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan
State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan

Author: Ronald P. Toby

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780804719520

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This book seeks to describe how Japan manipulated existing diplomatic channels to ensure national security. Rather, far from aiming at seclusion, Japan's diplomacy in the seventeenth century was orchestrated to achieve certain objectives, both outside the country and inside it. The aim was to build Japan into an autonomous center of its own. Since the country was "closed," elaborate and expensive foreign embassies were obliged to make the journey to Edo. Countries which were perceived as potential threats, such as Portugal and Spain, were excluded from this process. Only those such as the Chinese and the Dutch, with whom trade was recognized as desirable, were allowed a supervised presence in Japan itself. Closing the gates to Japan was not the object. Rather, carefully judging just when they should be open and shut was the aim.