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A major philosophy of life in East Asia
Torbjorn Loden
UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM
KEY FEATURE(S) The main purpose of this book is to provide both an outline and an appraisal of
Confucianism as a system of ideas and beliefs thaT evolved during the past three millennia and continue to do so. Confucianism has not only been a philosophy of life for hundreds of millions of people, it has also been a guiding ideology for states, including the Chinese empire and the governments of contemporary Singapore and South Korea.
Written by one of Europe’s leading Chinese Studies scholars who is also co-founder of the Stockholm Academy of Chinese Culture, this volume offers students, researchers and followers alike a welcome n... |
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A Swordsman’s Perspective
Roald Knutsen
AUTHOR OF JAPANESE SPEARS
KEY FEATURE(S) In an environment where budo has lost its ‘spirit’ in the process of shifting so much towards sport, this book reappraises and reaffirms the profound and intrinsic importance of budo 's underlying warrior culture and its real legacy
In a marketplace where there is already a vast library consisting mostly of ‘how to’ and ‘illustrated history of’ books because of the increasing emphasis on the popularization of budo and b... |
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Herbert Plutschow
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
KEY FEATURE(S) The first comprehensive book-length study in over half a century of the celebrated Japanese tea master Rikyu, considered the father of the Tea Ceremony (cha-no-yu) that fully contextualizes tea in politics, aesthetics, ritual and art
For the first time, Rikyu’s tea is considered as a profoundly important political as well as a socio-religious ritual in response to the dramatic changes taking place in the country at large: the hund... |
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In the Footsteps of Hiroshige
Patrick Carey
REITAKU UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) Based on the author’s epic walk, this is
the remarkable story of personal commitment in the literal
‘rediscovery’ of the old Tokugawa highway connecting
Edo (Tokyo) with Kyoto, which Japanese today believe to
have been obliterated by twentieth-century modernization.
Following in the footsteps of Hiroshige’s own experience of travelling the Tokaido, in 1832, recorded in his famous woodblock series 'The Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido', which are reproduced here ... |
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A 300th Anniversary Celebration
EDITED BY Stephen Henry Gill
BBC RADIO SCRIPTWRITER
C. Andrew Gerstle
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Marking the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of Basho, this volume comprises a notable collection of papers from some of the world’s most distinguished haiku scholars who provide a rich menu o... |
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With the first English translation of Travels in Manchuria and Korea
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY Inger Sigrun Brodey
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
Remarkably, the 1909 account of Soseki’s travels through Manchuria on the then recently-acquired South Manchurian Railway (SMR) is published here in English for the first time.
The introduction off... |
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Japanese legends, life and culture
EDITED BY Sukehiro Hirakawa
PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
This volume brings together a group of the world’s top authorities on Lafcadio Hearn, both Western and Japanese, headed by Sukehiro Hirakawa, who together examine a wide spectrum of topics within ‘Hea... |
