Classical Japanese
Classical Japanese

Author: Haruo Shirane

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2005-07-27

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 9780231509466

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Classical Japanese: A Grammar is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced students and a textbook for beginning students. The volume, which explains how classical Japanese is related to modern Japanese, includes detailed explanations of basic grammar, including helpful, easy-to-use tables of grammatical forms; annotated excerpts from classical premodern texts. Classical Japanese: A Grammar - Exercise Answers and Tables (ISBN: 978-0-231-13530-6) is now available for purchase as a separate volume.

Classical Weaponry of Japan
Classical Weaponry of Japan

Author: Serge Mol

Publisher: Kodansha International

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9784770029416

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Classic Weaponry Of Japan is a Kodansha International publication.

A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose
A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose

Author: Alexander Vovin

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780700717163

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This complete description of the language of the golden Heian period (794-1185) features an innovative morphological analysis to facilitate reference usage and provides a comprehensive reference work for students of classical Japanese.

Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited
Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited

Author: Catherine Russell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-06-16

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1441107770

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Catherine Russell's highly accessible book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modeled on Hollywood, focusing on the classical period - those years in which the studio system dominated all film production in Japan, from roughly 1930 to 1960. Respectful and thoroughly informed about the aesthetics and critical values of the Japanese canon, Russell is also critical of some of its ideological tendencies, and her analyses provide new insights on class and gender dynamics. Russell locates Japanese cinema within a global system of reception, and she highlights the importance of the industrial production context of these films. Including studies of landmark films by Ozu, Kurosawa and other directors, this book provides a perfect introduction to a crucial and often misunderstood area of Japanese cultural output. With a critical approach that highlights the "everydayness" of Japanese studio-era cinema, Catherine Russell demystifies the canon of great Japanese cinema, treating it with fewer auteurist and Orientalist assumptions than many other scholars and critics.

Classical Japanese Prose
Classical Japanese Prose

Author: Helen Craig McCullough

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9780804719605

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese prose dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, a period during which the preeminent cultural and aesthetic values were those of the Heian court. It contains 22 works representing all the major indigenous literary forms, either complete or in generous excerpts, and is particularly rich in writing by women and in autobiographical writings. This anthology contains longer selections than the only other available anthology, which was published in the 1950s, and each selection is preceded by an introduction reflecting the most recent scholarship. With three exceptions, all the translations are by the compilers, and almost all of them are published here for the first time. Because of space limitations, the compiler has omitted the two long masterpieces of the age, The Tale of Genji and The Tale of Heike, which deserve to be read in their entirety, and which are available in paperback English translations. The book contains an extensive general introduction, thirteen illustrations, five maps, a glossary, and a selected bibliography of works in English translation.

Japanese Classical Theater in Films
Japanese Classical Theater in Films

Author: Keiko I. McDonald

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780838635025

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Noh, Kabuki, and Bunraku are the three distinct genres of classical theater that have made Japan's dramatic art unique. The audience steeped in these traditional theatrical forms sees many aspects of stage conventions in Japanese cinema. This intimacy makes the aesthetic/intellectual experience of films more enriching. Japanese Classical Theater in Films aims at heightening such awareness in the West, the awareness of the influence that these three major dramatic genres have had on Japan's cinematic tradition. Using an eclectic critical framework - a solid combination of historical and cultural approaches reinforced with formalist and auteurist perspectives - Keiko I. McDonald undertakes this much needed, ambitious task.

Japan
Japan

Author: Nancy K. Stalker

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 0520962834

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool provides a historical account of Japan’s elite and popular cultures from premodern to modern periods. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship across numerous disciplines, Nancy K. Stalker presents the key historical themes, cultural trends, and religious developments throughout Japanese history. Focusing on everyday life and ordinary consumption, this is the first textbook of its kind to explore both imperial and colonial culture and offer expanded content on issues pertaining to gender and sexuality. Organized into fourteen chronological and thematic chapters, this text explores some of the most notable and engaging aspects of Japanese life and is well suited for undergraduate classroom use.