Japanese Reader

In 2005, the celebrated scholar of Japanese literature Haruo Shirane published "Classical Japanese: A Grammar." Now, with "Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary," he completes his two-vol

A compilation of anoted short readings which includes authentic excerpts from works by 20th-century Japanese masters Mishima, Akutagawa, Kawabata, and others.

"The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader: A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice is designed for intermediate to advanced learners of Japanese and presents twenty five a

"The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader: A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice is designed for intermediate to advanced learners of Japanese and presents twenty five a

專為台灣日語學習者打造的讀本教材 ～透過多元閱讀提升日語實力～ 本系列書共分六冊，以生活化、實用性、趣味性為理念，以台灣日語學習者的角度，依序編排各冊學習目標，奠定日語聽讀基礎，同時培養基本寫作能力。各冊難易度對應「日本語能力試驗JLPT」分級如下： 日語讀本Ⅰ──日檢N5 日語讀本Ⅱ──日檢N5~N4 日語讀本Ⅲ、Ⅳ──日檢N4~N3 日語讀本Ⅴ、Ⅵ──日檢N3~N2 ★輕鬆學習6步驟 Step 1. 閱讀生動課文 貼近日常生活，使學習者快速掌握情境，同時了解台日社會及文化差異。 Step 2. 學習重要句型 介紹每課重要學習句型，強化文法理解與應用。 Step 3. 挑戰多元練習 編排多樣題型，即時檢視學習成效，奠定寫作基礎。 Step 4. 練習互動會話 透過對話，幫助學習者了解日語口語變化，提供練習生活日語的機會。 Step 5. 記憶基礎單字 每課單字提供兩種重音標示法及基本使用句型，豐富基礎單字量。 Step 6. 搭配補充專欄 特別提供「豆知識」專欄，以及介紹常見諺語或格言，提升學習樂趣。 ★ 提供MP3朗讀音檔下載，由專業日籍錄音員錄製，邊聽邊學習，提升聽說能力。 ★ 另附解析夾冊，提供參考中譯與解答，教學、自用皆適合。 音檔請至三民・東大音檔網下載或線上聆聽。

專為台灣日語學習者打造的讀本教材 ～透過多元閱讀提升日語實力～ 本系列書共分六冊，以生活化、實用性、趣味性為理念，以台灣日語學習者的角度，依序編排各冊學習目標，奠定日語聽讀基礎，同時培養基本寫作能力。各冊難易度對應「日本語能力試驗JLPT」分級如下： 日語讀本Ⅰ──日檢N5 日語讀本Ⅱ──日檢N5~N4 日語讀本Ⅲ、Ⅳ──日檢N4~N3 日語讀本Ⅴ、Ⅵ──日檢N3~N2 ★ 輕鬆學習6步驟 Step 1. 閱讀生動課文 貼近日常生活，使學習者快速掌握情境，同時了解台日社會及文化差異。 Step 2. 學習重要句型 介紹每課重要學習句型，強化文法理解與應用。 Step 3. 挑戰多元練習 編排多樣題型，即時檢視學習成效，奠定寫作基礎。 Step 4. 練習互動會話 透過對話，幫助學習者了解日語口語變化，提供練習生活日語的機會。 Step 5. 記憶基礎單字 每課單字提供兩種重音標示法及基本使用句型，豐富基礎單字量。 Step 6. 搭配補充專欄 特別提供「豆知識」專欄，以及介紹常見諺語或格言，提升學習樂趣。 ★ 提供MP3朗讀音檔下載，由專業日籍錄音員錄製，邊聽邊學習，提升聽說能力。 ★ 另附解析夾冊，提供參考中譯與解答，教學、自用皆適合。 音檔請至三民・東大音檔網下載或線上聆聽。

From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single-handedly credited with the wave of japonaiserie that first enthralled France and, later, all of Europe—but often remains misunderstood as an “exotic” artifact that helped inspire Western creativity. The fact is that the Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon of which there exists no Western equivalent.Some of the most disruptive ideas in modern art—including, as Karl Marx put it, that “all that is solid melts into air”—were invented in Japan in the 1700s and expressed like never before in the designs of such masters as Hokusai, Utamaro, and Hiroshige in the early 19th century. This book lifts the veil on a much-loved but little-understood a

The book is divided into two parts, namely “Japanese Philosophy: Teaching and Research in the Global World” and “Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline.” The first part integrates reports on th

Everything you need to know to restore or customize your classic Japanese motorcycle.Whether you want to correctly restore a classic Japanese motorcycle or create a modified, custom build, you need the right information about how to perform the mechanical and cosmetic tasks required to get an old, frequently neglected, and often long-unridden machine back in working order. How to Rebuild and Restore Classic Japanese Motorcycles is your thorough, hands-on manual, covering all the mechanical subsystems that make up a motorcycle. From finding a bike to planning your project to dealing with each mechanical system, How to Rebuild and Restore Classic Japanese Motorcycles includes everything you need to know to get your classic back on the road.Japanese motorcycles have been the best-selling bikes in the world since the mid-1960s, driven by the "big four": Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, and Kawasaki. Of course certain bikes have always had a following - Honda CB750, 305 Hawk, CB400-

Kim explores the dynamic relationship between Korean and Japanese Buddhists in the years leading up to the Japanese annexation of Korea. Conventional narratives portray Korean Buddhists as complicit i

The ideal review for your Japanese courseMore than 40 million students have trusted Schaum’s Outlines for their expert knowledge and helpful solved problems. Written by renowned experts in their respe

When you follow this course for 35 minutes a day, in six weeks you'll be speaking Japanese!In Fast-Track Japanese, Elisabeth Smith uses her wide teaching experience to create a course that covers just

Teach Yourself takes the pain out of picking up the Japanese languageGet Started in Japanese requires no prior experience in the language and gives you the opportunity to study at a reasonable, steady

Have a successful trip to Japan by learning its culture and the ways of its peopleThe Japanese Way is your handy guide to understanding how people from every corner of Japan think, do business, and ac

Over a span of 260 years, from 630 to 894, Japanese embassies to Tang China (ken-Tō shi) played a vital role in importing Tang governance and culture to Japan, significantly shaping the political and cultural landscape of an emerging Japanese state with codes of law (ritsuryō). However, the seventeenth embassy during the Jōwa period, fraught with turmoil, marked the final mission to Tang China. Alongside disasters and significant loss of life during the voyage, mysteries persist around Vice-ambassador Ono no Takamura's refusal to board the ship, the government's insistence on the mission, and the objectives behind dispatching this mission to China. In this volume, Professor Saeki Arikiyo traces the journey from departure to return, focusing on the individuals involved and the prevailing trends of the era. Drawing upon a rich tapestry of historical sources, including records from Shoku Nihon kōki and the accompanying monk Ennin's Nit-Tō guhō junrei kōki, Arikiyo delves into the arduous

The Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley is home to over 470 graves connected to the city’s Japanese population. Most of these graves belong to individuals who died during the Meiji era (1868–1912), a remarkable period of modernisation and opening up of Japan that saw thousands of its inhabitants travel to other parts of the world to study, work, and settle. Who were these people? What were they doing in Hong Kong? And why were unbaptised Japanese buried in what was called at one time the ‘Protestant Cemetery’?Hong Kong’s Meiji-era Japanese community was one of two halves. Company executives sat atop the social ladder and karayuki-san, or prostitutes, occupied the lower echelons, with tradespeople and professionals somewhere in between. By revealing the personal journeys of these mostly forgotten Japanese, the authors aim to add to transnational perspectives on Hong Kong and Japan during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as increase recognition of this fragmented

Based on a close reading of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu’s extant films, this book provides insights into the ways the director created narrative structures and used symbolism to construct meaning in his films. Against critics’ insistence that Ozu was indifferent to plot and unlikely to use symbols, Geist demonstrates otherwise, revealing the director’s subtle iconographic paradigms. Her incisive understanding of the historical and cultural context in which the films were conceived amplifies her analysis of the films’ structure and meaning. Ozu: A Closer Look guides the reader through Ozu’s early, silent films and his sound films made during Japan’s wars in Asia and the subsequent American Occupation, then takes up specific themes relevant to his later, better-known films. These themes include religion, gender, and the influence of traditional Japanese painting. Geist also examines the impact that Ozu’s films had on specific directors in Europe, America, and Japan. Intended for film

The striking power of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s carrier-­based attack aircraft was established at Pearl Harbor, and the IJN’s carrier-­based torpedo­ and dive-­bombers showed their prowess again at

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Every child needs a Bloomsbury Young Reader. Fun, stretching, just the right length, full of adventurous vocabulary and punctuation.' (Julie-Ann McCulloch, Teacher)All Sloth Bear wants to do is play w

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In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire concludes that early East Asian Cold War history needs to be studied within the framework of post-imperial history. Japan’s surrender did not mean that the Japanese

Drawn from the diverse collections of the Ise Foundation, Living Kogei highlights over sixty works by prominent and emerging contemporary Japanese artists―including Living National Treasures whose ski

Bring the Japanese language to life with this beautifully illustrated children's book from Lonely Planet Kids, an imprint of Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide and phrasebook publisher. P

The first collection of its kind, The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader is the essential anthology of writings by continental philosophers on cinema, representing the last century of film-maki

Adult and child readers will learn all about cats together in this new co-reader from National Geographic Kids! From house cats to big cats, readers will learn all about their favorite furry felines.&

One distinctive feature of post-war Japanese cinema is the frequent recurrence of imagistic and narrative tropes and formulaic characterizations in female representations. These repetitions are import

In Cold War Ruins Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "tr

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey.Horr

From the stunning victory at Pearl Harbor to its dramatic reversal at Midway, the Imperial Japanese Navy swept all before it in its numerous victories in the Pacific and Far Eastern waters. The Imperi

Japanese gardens have long been admired for their capacity to improve on nature through impeccable design, detail and composition, properties that elevate them from mere gardens to sacred spaces. Infi

In time for the one year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a collection of essays and stories by Japanese writers on the devastating disaster, its aftermath, and the resolve of a people to

Can you understand me now? Good!Talking on the phone in a second language introduces unique challenges. What is the proper way to greet a person in Japanese? Should one be formal or informal when addr

Snodgrass challenges the predominant view that Asian cultures are objectified and understood strictly through Western ideas. Based on a detailed examination of presentations by Japanese Buddhists at t