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Author : Don Jones
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
In July 1944 the Americans took the island of Saipan, but Captain Sakae Oba of the Japanese Army refused to acknowledge defeat.
Author : Don Jones
Publisher :
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1986
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Don Jones
Publisher : Jove Publications
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9780515097047
Captain Sakae Oba of the Japanese Army refused to accept defeat and continued to harass the American forces on Saipan. When he did surrender, it was on his terms and with honor. This is his story--the story of a courageous man admired by those he warred against.
Author : 太宰治
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811204811
A young man describes his torment as he struggles to reconcile the diverse influences of Western culture and the traditions of his own Japanese heritage.
Author : Helen DeWitt
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811225518
Called “remarkable” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an ambitious, colossal debut novel” (Publishers Weekly), Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai is back in print at last Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise? Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.) Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa’s masterpiece Seven Samurai. But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn’t know: his father’s name. At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew. He’ll be punched, sliced, and threatened with retribution. He may not live to see twelve. Or he may find a real samurai and save a mother who thinks boredom a fate worse than death.
Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782000143
The dazzling spectacle presented by the armies of medieval Japan owed much to the highly developed family and personal heraldry of samurai society. From simple personal banners, this evolved over centuries of warfare into a complex system of flags worn or carried into battle, together with the striking 'great standards' of leading warlords. While not regulated in the Western sense, Japanese heraldry developed as a series of widely followed practices, while remaining flexible enough to embrace constant innovation. Scores of examples, in monochrome and full colour, illustrate this fascinating explanation of the subject by a respected expert on all aspects of samurai culture.
Author : Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2005-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780756967253
When a series of fires in Japan's capital points to foul-play, the famous samurai Judge Ooka puts 14-year-old Seikei on the case to discover who's behind them. Determined to prove his worth, Seikei poses as a teahouse attendant to gather information, and winds up entering the mysterious worlds of geishas and revenge.
Author : Gail Tsukiyama
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429919094
Gail Tsukiyama's The Street of a Thousand Blossoms is a powerfully moving masterpiece about tradition and change, loss and renewal, and love and family from a glorious storyteller at the height of her powers. It is Tokyo in 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows early signs of promise at the national obsession of sumo wrestling, while Kenji is fascinated by the art of Noh theater masks. But as the ripples of war spread to their quiet neighborhood, the brothers must put their dreams on hold—and forge their own paths in a new Japan. Meanwhile, the two young daughters of a renowned sumo master find their lives increasingly intertwined with the fortunes of their father's star pupil, Hiroshi.
Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782000100
From the 10th to the mid-17th century, religious organisations played an important part in the social, political and military life in Japan. Known as sohei ('monk warriors') or yamabushi ('mountain warriors'), the warrior monks were anything but peaceful and meditative, and were a formidable enemy, armed with their distinctive, long-bladed naginata. The fortified cathedrals of the Ikko-ikki rivalled Samurai castles, and withstood long sieges. This title follows the daily life, training, motivation and combat experiences of the warrior monks from their first mention in AD 949 through to their suppression by the Shogunate in the years following the Sengoku-jidai period.
Author : Omi Hatashin
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 900421304X
When discovered by local hunters on Guam, Yokoi was widely reported as a ‘no surrender man’ who survived, living up to the old Japanese military code of honour. This book sheds light on the reality of the war in the Pacific while addressing some key issues concerning the nature of Japanese culture in modern times.