Samurai and Silk
Author: Haru Matsukata Reischauer
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13:
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Samurai and Silk
Author: Haru Matsukata Reischauer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780674788015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis extraordinary family account begins with the author's two illustrious grandfathers: one, a provincial samurai who became a founding father of the Meiji government; the other, a scion of a wealthy and enterprising peasant family who almost single-handedly developed the silk trade with America.
Samurai and Silk
Author: Haru Matsukata Reischauer
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 380
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Author: Gail Tsukiyama
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1429952296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength.
Memories of Silk and Straw
Author: Junichi Saga
Publisher: Kodansha Amer Incorporated
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780870119880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 50 reminiscences of pre-modern Japan. This book presents an illustrationf a way of life that has virtually disappeared.
Art of the Samurai
Author: 原田一敏
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1588393453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This extensively illustrated catalogue is published in conjunction with the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai, including the finest examples of swords - the spirit of the samurai - as well as sword mountings and fittings, armor and helmets, saddles, textiles, and paintings. The works in the catalogue, drawn from public and private collections in Japan, include 34 officially designated National Treasures and 64 Important Cultural Properties, the largest number ever to be shown together at one time. Dating from the 5th to the early 20th century, these majestic objects offer a complete picture of samurai culture and its unique blend of the martial and the refined." "Many of the greatest Japanese swordsmiths are represented in this volume, from early masters such as Yasuie (12th century) and Tomomitsu (14th century) to the Edo-period smiths Nagasone Kotetsu and Kiyomaro. The blades by these and other masters, cherished as much for their beauty as for their cutting efficiency, were equipped with elaborate hilts and scabbards prized for their exquisite craftsmanship and fine materials such as silk, rayskin, gold, lacquer, and certain alloys unique to Japan. Japanese armor is also fully surveyed, from the rarest iron armor of the Kofun period (5th century) to the inventive ceremonial helmets made toward the end of the age of the samurai." --Book Jacket.
The Samurai's Garden
Author: Gail Tsukiyama
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2008-06-24
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1429965142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama's The Samurai's Garden uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for this extraordinary story. A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.
The Story of Silk
Author: Japan Society (New York, N.Y.). Townsend Harris Endowment Fund Committee
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 42
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Author: Giles Milton
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2003-01-18
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0374706239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg In 1611, the merchants of London's East India Company received a mysterious letter from Japan, written several years previously by a marooned English mariner named William Adams. Foreigners had been denied access to Japan for centuries, yet Adams had been living in this unknown land for years. He had risen to the highest levels in the ruling shogun's court, taken a Japanese name, and was now offering his services as adviser and interpreter. Seven adventurers were sent to Japan with orders to find and befriend Adams, in the belief that he held the key to exploiting the opulent riches of this forbidden land. Their arrival was to prove a momentous event in the history of Japan and the shogun suddenly found himself facing a stark choice: to expel the foreigners and continue with his policy of isolation, or to open his country to the world. For more than a decade the English, helped by Adams, were to attempt trade with the shogun, but confounded by a culture so different from their own, and hounded by scheming Jesuit monks and fearsome Dutch assassins, they found themselves in a desperate battle for their lives. Samurai William is the fascinating story of a clash of two cultures, and of the enormous impact one Westerner had on the opening of the East.
Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Author: Alessandro Baricco
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-12-10
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0307490955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.There Joncour meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed.
