For over fifty years, the Japanese-born Western-trained author of this remarkable volume devoted himself to explaining Japanese traditions and customs to foreigners through his newspaper columns, talks and four short books. The all-embracing work presented here, drawn from all these sources including revised and rearranged versions of the books, deals with all aspects of Japanese life and material culture -- apparel and utensils; cures and medicines; houses and buildings; fetes and festivals; fish, birds and animals; folk tales; food, sake and tobacco; living habits; marriage, funerals and...
For over fifty years, the Japanese-born Western-trained author of this remarkable volume devoted himself to explaining Japanese traditions and customs...
A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan's first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan.
A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan's first modern mass enterta...
This comprehensive volume on Japan was written nearly a century ago by an Englishman who had been living in the country for some time. Using a variety of Japanese journals, he captures Japanese opinion on a variety of matters, from politics to culture, religion to technology, constitution to revolution.
This comprehensive volume on Japan was written nearly a century ago by an Englishman who had been living in the country for some time. Using a variety...
