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Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645) is the most revered and celebrated swordsman in Japanese history; unfortunately, our modern portrait of this folk hero is derived mainly from popular books, comics, and film, with little heed paid to the early recor...

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Miyamoto Musashi, the Japanese swordsman of unparalleled skill, is known around the world today. Yet his life still poses a large number of important questions that remain elusive: Where was he born? Who was his father? Who was his mother? Who wer...

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Body MRI: Cases in Radiology serves as a ready reference of 141 cases and nearly 900 superb quality images of common and uncommon conditions encountered in the daily practice of body MRI. The book is specifically intended for radiology residents a...

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Essentials of Body MRI extensively covers the field, offering clear and detailed guidance on MRI as an invaluable tool for the primary diagnosis and problem solving of diseases of the body, including the abdomen, liver, pancreas, pelvis, heart, ur...

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The Two Courts Period (1333-92) was a turning point in Japan's medieval era-a time when an unbridgeable rift appeared in the fragile fabric of Japanese feudal society. On each side stood a separate imperial court, each with its own army and its ow...

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The Warring States period (1467-1568) was the most destructive in Japan's long history of civil strife. It began when the dearly won supremacy of the Ashikaga clan was squandered by a weak and indecisive ruler, allowing the jealous rivalry between...

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The Two Courts Period (1333-92) was a turning point in Japan's medieval era-a time when an unbridgeable rift appeared in the fragile fabric of Japanese feudal society. On each side stood a separate imperial court, each with its own army and its ow...

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Eiko Ozaki's unforgettable portraits of Japan's greatest medieval warriors, presented here for the first time in a newly edited text, along with the many stunning woodprints they and their heroic stories inspired.- Minamoto Monjumaru Yorimitsu and...

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Lucian Swift Kirtland (1881-1965), walking Japan's ancient Tôkaidô and Nakasendô highroads on the eve of the First World War, is still very much the late-nineteenth century traveler, pith helmet and all. And while, like so many of his contemporari...

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Miyamoto Musashi Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) is the most celebrated swordsman in Japanese history. Yet few of the many works on the enigmatic warrior have hewn to the original sources. Fewer still have explored the emotional turmoil that drove hi...

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"Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index…and beautiful layout to boot."John la Farge (1835-1910), traveling Japan's interior in the summer of 1886, see...

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Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904), the English author, photographer, and explorer, is one of the most intrepid foreigners to have traveled Japan's interior during the late eighteen-seventies, not long after Japan's forced opening to the Western power...

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"I had been here before: I was going from being a mere 'interpreter' to being a 'cultural interpreter.' It was a dangerous path to tread." Walking Japan's ancient inland route in search of a vague romantic notion, the author encounters a...

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Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904), the son of an Irish Surgeon-Major and a Greek woman of noble lineage, who settled in Japan after a checkered career in journalism in Cincinnati and New Orleans, is still considered by many the most astute interpre...

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Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904), the son of an Irish Surgeon-Major and a Greek woman of noble lineage, who settled in Japan after a checkered career in journalism in Cincinnati and New Orleans, is still considered by many the most astute interpre...

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What student of Japanese has not grappled with the amazing diversity and tantalizingly elusive nuances of its idioms? One certainly would not want to confuse, for example,  ki ga mawaru  (to be considerate) with  ki o mawasu  (...

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Dies ist der gelungene Versuch uns der historischen Person Miyamoto Musashi, Japans berühmtesten Schwertkämpfer, zu nähern. W. de Lange forschte in Japan in den unterschiedlichsten Archiven akribisch nach Quellen über M. Musashi, übersetzte diese ...

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Annie Brassey (1839–87), was perhaps the first Western woman to arrive in Japan on her own family yacht, the Sunbeam. Having departed from Chatham with her family, friends, and crew, she and her husband, the English Member of Parliament Thom...

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To any student of the Japanese language, the staggering number of onomatopoeia seems so daunting that one simply does not know where to begin. What, for instance, to make of karakara, karikari, kurikuri, or korikori? They may sound pretty similar,...

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This is the true story of the eventful history of the famous Yagy clan—a story that began during the early heady days of the Genk Rebellion (1331–33), when emperor Go-Daigo sought to restore power to the throne with the support of the ...

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“Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with notes, glossary, index…and a beautiful layout to boot.” Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904), the son of an Irish Surgeon-Major and ...

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Aimé Humbert (1819–1900), Swiss politician, traveler, and educator, arrived in Japan in 1863 as envoy plenipotentiary of the Swiss federal government to conclude a treaty of trade and amity with the shogunate. Though he was to spend l...

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This is the true story of the eventful history of the famous Yagy clan—a story that began during the early heady days of the Genk Rebellion (1331–33), when emperor Go-Daigo sought to restore power to the throne with the support of the ...

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Izumi Shikibu (978–??), author, femme fatale, and prominent member of the Heian court, was first and foremost a poet—the greatest of her time, perhaps the greatest her country has ever known. Incorporated in numerous imperial anthologi...

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Known from his collaboration on the Netflix documentary Age of Samurai , historian William de Lange returns to what he does best: highly anecdotal stories from one of the most exciting episodes in Japanese history: the Warring States period. De La...

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“When I walked into the office on Monday morning I knew my reputation was in shatters.” Walking Japan’s coastal route in search of beauty, William de Lange encounters a string of local characters. Recording their stories, he brai...

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Vasilii Golovnin (1776-1818) was already a celebrity when, in the spring of 1811, twenty years into his career in the Russian Imperial navy, he was commissioned to captain an expedition to map the Kuril Islands from the Strait of Hope to the islan...

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Dieses Buch erzhlt die vollstndige Geschichte der Yagy, die durch eine Reihe von unverschuldeten Unglcken zuerst ihre Unabhngigkeit, dann ihre Burg und ihr Lehen verloren und schlielich der Gnade eines rtlichen Tempels unterworfen waren. Doch es w...

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On 14 September 1862, four Brits encountered the procession of the nobleman Shimazu Hisamitsu at a village called Namamugi along Japan's ancient Tkaid highroad. One of them, the Shanghai trader Charles Lenox Richardson, would not survive to tell t...

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Dieses Buch erzhlt die vollstndige Geschichte der Yagy, die durch eine Reihe von unverschuldeten Unglcken zuerst ihre Unabhngigkeit, dann ihre Burg und ihr Lehen verloren und schlielich der Gnade eines rtlichen Tempels unterworfen waren. Doch es w...

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