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Transforming the Past: Tradition and Kinship among Japanese Americans

Book by Sylvia Junko Yanagisako; Stanford University, 1985

Subjects:

Japanese American Families--Case Studies, Japanese American Families--Washington (State)--Seattle, Kinship--United States--Case Studies, Kinship--Washington (State)--Seattle, Seattle (Wash.)--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...assume a timeless past of "Japanese tradition"in which stem-family households...elaborated somewhat different "Japanese traditions" and imbued them with somewhat...marriages tend toward a "traditional Japanese" segregated conjugal pattern...
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Japanese Aesthetics and Culture: A Reader

Book by Nancy G. Hume; State University of New York Press, 1995

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Japanese, Arts, Japanese--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...II, III". In Sources of Japanese Tradition . 1958. Columbia University...the most part, given in the traditional Japanese order, family name followed...excerpts from Sources of Japanese Tradition , edited by Wm. Theodore...
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Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity

Book by Tomi Suzuki; Stanford University, 1996

Subjects:

Autobiographical fiction, Japanese--History and criticism, Japanese fiction--1868---History and criticism, Literature, Comparative--Japanese and Western, Literature, Comparative--Western and Japanese, Shiga, Naoya--1883-1971--Criticism and interpretation, Tanizaki, Junichiro--1886-1965--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book examines the historical formation of modern Japanese literature through a fundamental reassessment of its most characteristic form, the "I-novel", an autobiographical narrative thought to recount the details of a writer's life.
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Formless in Form: Kenko, Tsurezuregusa, and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose

Book by Linda H. Chance; Stanford University, 1997

Subjects:

Japanese Essays--1185-1600--History And Criticism, Literary Form

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In Japanese literary history, Kenko's Essays in Idleness is classified as one of the first collections of informal essay. Asking what makes a work of literature readable, Chance presents compelling arguments against this classification.
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Pilgrimages: Aspects of Japanese Literature and Culture

Book by J. Thomas Rimer; University of Hawaii Press, 1988

Subjects:

Art, Japanese--European Influences, Japanese Literature--History And Criticism, Pilgrims And Pilgrimages In Literature, Theater--Japan

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...ourselves. In the case of the Japanese tradition, a certain number of assumptions...might prove most useful? Traditional Japanese methodologies of analysis...analogues, writers in the Japanese tradition seem comfortable with such...

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Sources of Japanese Tradition, 1600 to 2000: Volume Two (Second Edition)

Journal article by Nam-Lin Hur; Pacific Affairs, Vol. 78, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Sources of Japanese Tradition, 1600 to 2000: 2nd ed., vol. 2 (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

Sources of Japanese Tradition, 1600 to 2000: Volume Two (Second...by Nam-Lin Hur SOURCES OF JAPANESE TRADITION, 1600 TO 2000: Volume Two (Second...exercise. Given all this, Sources of Japanese Tradition 1600 to 2000 (second edition) is...
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Yamato-Takeru: An 'Arthurian' Hero in Japanese Tradition

Journal article by C. Scott Littleton; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 54, 1995

Subjects:

Arthur, King of the Britons--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Central Asia--Folklore, legends, etc., Folklore--Structural analysis, Heroes--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Iran--Folklore, legends, etc., Japan--Folklore, legends, etc., Yamato-takeru (Japanese mythology)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...Yamato-takeru: an Arthurian hero in Japanese tradition. by C. Scott Littleton...sacred and magical sword in Japanese tradition: Kusanagi (the "Grass Mower...possible tie between the ancient Japanese tradition and that of the Alano-Sarmatians...
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Ise Shrine and a Modernist Construction of Japanese Tradition

Journal article by Jonathan M. Reynolds; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001

Subjects:

Church architecture--Analysis, Shinto shrines--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...Modernist construction of Japanese tradition. by Jonathan M. Reynolds...self-conscious efforts to construct a "Japanese tradition" sympathetic to modernism...in Japan and the threat to traditional Japanese culture that that process...
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Japanese Art History 2001: The State and Stakes of Research

Journal article by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001

Subjects:

Art, Japanese--History, Japan--Art

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Even her entries on Japanese painting in The...portraiture in the Zen tradition in a way that questions...on a premodern "traditional" picture of Japanese art in a century...Construction of Japanese Tradition," 2001, ins...
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The Transfer of Japanese-Style Management to American Subsidiaries: Contingencies, Constraints, and Competence

Journal article by Schon Beechler, John Zhuang Yang; Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 25, 1994

Subjects:

Corporations, Japanese--Management, Human resource management systems--Japan

Collections: Entire Library

...Japanese companies are reflective of Japanese tradition and are thus unique to Japan. The...values more similar to those of the Japanese in terms of group orientation, family-oriented traditions, work values, etc., thus making it...

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Resting Place: A Simple and Moving Memorial to the Unknown Dead Takes Its Place in Japanese Tradition and Topography

Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 212, December 2002

Collections: Entire Library

...memorial to the unknown dead takes its place in Japanese tradition and topography. The huge Haizuka dam in the...perceptive use of materials, and its subtle response to Japanese tradition. RELATED ARTICLE: Architect Hideki Yoshimats...
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Tokyo Translucence: This New Living and Work Space in Tokyo Makes the Most of a Tight Urban Site and Lyrically Reinterprets Japanese Tradition

Magazine article by Michael Webb; The Architectural Review, Vol. 214, May 2003

Subjects:

Architects--Works, Joint occupancy of buildings--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Joint occupancy of buildings--Design and construction, Kuma, Kengo--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...of a tight urban site and lyrically reinterprets Japanese tradition. by Michael Webb Over the past decade...building material. In doing so, he has reinvented the traditional Japanese house, with its post and beam structure and infill...
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Japanese Transition

Magazine article by Penny Mcguire; The Architectural Review, Vol. 200, October 1996

Subjects:

Architecture, Japanese--Occidental influences, Dwellings--Design and construction, Wardle, John--Practice

Collections: Entire Library

...clients or the architect to import obvious icons of Japanese tradition, like the shoji screen or tatami mat, or to establish...reference to them; but still the house is replete with Japanese resonances. They are present in the delicate layering...
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The Anguish of an Alien: Confessions of a Japanese Christian

Magazine article by David L. Swain; The Christian Century, Vol. 112, November 22, 1995

Subjects:

Authors, Japanese--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Deep River (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Endo, Shusaku--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Final Martyrs (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...precedent in Japanese tradition. Buddhism has...deity; like a traditional father, it is...resisted by Japanese culture, and...perversion of traditional doctrine or practice...the same. The Japanese tourists are...
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To Translate the Shaking: Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry (and Coaxing It into English)

Magazine article by Malinda Markham; The Antioch Review, Vol. 62, Winter 2004

Subjects:

Japanese poetry, Japanese poetry--Analysis, Japanese poetry--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...own. Although Japanese women poets come...extremely energetic tradition of resisting traditional...haiku and tanka traditions. Haiku has a 5-7...offers closure to a Japanese ear in a way that...establishing a traditional rhythm that works...sensitive to what a Japanese reader would perceive...

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Japanese Tradition of Bold Design Seen at Metropolitan Museum

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, June 3, 2000

Subjects:

Metropolitan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Japanese tradition of bold design seen at Metropolitan Museum...YORK - Two gods guard the exhibit of Japanese art from the Mary Griggs Burke collection...the museum as the best and largest of Japanese art in private hands. The Taishakuten...
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Japanese Potters Continue a Tradition of Kiln-Fired Beauty

Newspaper article by Richard Busch; The Washington Times, September 23, 2000

Subjects:

Japan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Japanese potters continue a tradition of kiln-fired beauty...and someone who holds traditional Japanese pottery in high regard...anywhere that good, traditional handmade pottery can...know what it is about Japanese pottery that I find...
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Tradition Brings Generations Together Japanese Grocer Molds Rice to Mark Start of a New Year

Newspaper article by Eileen O. Daday; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 2, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Tradition Brings Generations Together Japanese Grocer Molds Rice...they watched a traditional rice-pounding ceremony...part of the stores Japanese New Years celebration...Japanese culture. "For Japanese, New Years is a...Likewise, the traditional ceremony drew the...
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Family Following Ancient Tradition; Martin Longley Previews Tonight's Symphony Hall Concert by Reigakusha, Combining Ancient Japanese Music and Dance with a Work by Japan's Best-Known 20th Century Composer, Toru Takemitsu

Newspaper article by Martin Longley; The Birmingham Post (England), October 16, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Family Following Ancient Tradition; Martin Longley Previews Tonights...Reigakusha, Combining Ancient Japanese Music and Dance with a Work...stakes. Sukeyasu Shibas Japanese ancestors have been practising...focusing on the legacy of Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. The...
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Japanese Soldiers' Bones Burned; at Rites in Ifugao to Release Spirits of the Dead

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 23, 2007

Subjects:

Soldiers

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Japanese soldiers "to release the spirits of the dead." This is consistent with mandatory cremation of the dead, a Japanese tradition. Thousands of Japanese soldiers died in this town and nearby Hungduan municipality where the Japanese Imperial...

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Japanese Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Influences The stylistic tradition of Japanese art was firmly established...During the Nara period the traditional technical methods of Japanese painting were established...return to the native tradition of Japanese painting. The Deer Scroll...
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Japanese Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Kinoshita (b. 1914) borrowed elements from the Japanese folk tradition; Mishima wrote dramatic adaptations of noh plays...Classical Japanese Prose (1990); S. D. Carter, Traditional Japanese Poetry (1991). ____________________ The Columbia...
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Japanese Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...architectural tradition. After World War I the Japanese began to make...architecture. Japanese architects...buildings combining traditional and modern...Tempel, New Japanese Architecture...I. Teiji, Traditional Domestic Architecture...
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Japanese Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...culture of the Japanese islands. Over the...and imayo ), traditional war and social...China, which the Japanese called gagaku...by a continuing tradition of performance...1959); H. Tanabe, Japanese Music (rev. ed...Kishibe, The Traditional Music of Japan...
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Murakami, Haruki

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...world-weary protagonists are generally stripped of Japanese tradition. Frequently designated as postmodern, his cool, contemporary...extremists in the Tokyo subway and its relation to the Japanese psyche. See study by J. Rubin (2002...

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