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January 21, 2024

Zen and Japanese Culture (Princeton Classics)

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Free Download Zen and Japanese Culture (Princeton Classics) by Daisetz T. Suzuki
English | February 12, 2019 | ISBN: 0691182965 | True PDF | 608 pages | 248 MB
Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen’s influence on Japanese traditional arts. In simple and poetic language, Daisetz Suzuki describes Zen and its historical evolution. He connects Zen to the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the relationship between Zen and swordsmanship, haiku, tea ceremonies, and the Japanese love of nature. Suzuki uses anecdotes, poetry, and illustrations of silk screens, calligraphy, and architecture.

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January 21, 2024

Japanese Naval Vessels of World War Two As Seen by U.S. Naval Intelligence

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Free Download A.D. Baker III – Japanese Naval Vessels of World War Two: As Seen by U.S. Naval Intelligence
Arms & Armour Press | 1987 | ISBN: 0853688478 | English | 456 pages | PDF | 273.09 MB
A high-quality reprinting of ONI 41-42, the US Navy’s recognition manual on the Imperial Japanese Navy from WWII. This volume includes several supplemental texts and the overall index. The quality of these volumes is exceptional – photos are reproduced as in the same quality as the original. This is not a comprehensive or detailed overview of the IJN but is instead an amazing piece of history showing what the USN knew about its enemy during the war. An invaluable resource, particularly those interested in American submarine operations during the war as angle-on-the-bow silhouettes are included for most vessels.

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January 20, 2024

Nightmare Japan Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema

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Free Download Jay Mcroy, "Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema"
English | 2008 | pages: 219 | ISBN: 9042023317 | PDF | 4,1 mb
Over the last two decades, Japanese filmmakers have produced some of the most important and innovative works of cinematic horror. At once visually arresting, philosophically complex, and politically charged, films by directors like Tsukamoto Shinya (Tetsuo: The Iron Man [1988] and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer [1992]), Sato Hisayasu (Muscle [1988] and Naked Blood [1995]) Kurosawa Kiyoshi (Cure [1997], Séance [2000], and Kaïro [2001]), Nakata Hideo (Ringu [1998], Ringu II [1999], and Dark Water [2002]), and Miike Takashi (Audition [1999] and Ichi the Killer [2001]) continually revisit and redefine the horror genre in both its Japanese and global contexts. In the process, these and other directors of contemporary Japanese horror film consistently contribute exciting and important new visions, from postmodern reworkings of traditional avenging spirit narratives to groundbreaking works of cinematic terror that position depictions of radical or ‘monstrous’ alterity/hybridity as metaphors for larger socio-political concerns, including shifting gender roles, reconsiderations of the importance of the extended family as a social institution, and reconceptualisations of the very notion of cultural and national boundaries.

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January 17, 2024

Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu

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Free Download Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu By Christina Laffin
2013 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0824835654 | PDF | 3 MB
Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women explores the world of thirteenth-century Japan through the life of a prolific noblewoman known as Nun Abutsu (1225-1283). Abutsu crossed gender and genre barriers by writing the first career guide for Japanese noblewomen, the first female-authored poetry treatise, and the first poetic travelogue by a woman–all despite the increasingly limited social mobility for women during the Kamakura era (1185-1336). Capitalizing on her literary talent and political prowess, Abutsu rose from middling origins and single-motherhood to a prestigious marriage and membership in an esteemed literary lineage.Abutsu’s life is well documented in her own letters, diaries, and commentaries, as well as in critiques written by rivals, records of poetry events, and legal documents. Drawing on these and other literary and historiographical sources, including The Tale of Genji, author Christina Laffin demonstrates how medieval women responded to institutional changes that transformed their lives as court attendants, wives, and nuns. Despite increased professionalization of the arts, competition over sources of patronage, and rivaling claims to literary expertise, Abutsu proved her poetic capabilities through her work and often used patriarchal ideals of femininity to lay claim to political and literary authority.Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women effectively challenges notions that literary salons in Japan were a phenomenon limited to the Heian period (794-1185) and that literary writing and scholarship were the domain of men during the Kamakura era. Its analysis of literary works within the context of women’s history makes clear the important role that medieval women and their cultural contributions continued to play in Japanese history.

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January 16, 2024

Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism

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Free Download Johnathan Flowers, "Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism"
English | ISBN: 1793626707 | 2023 | 422 pages | EPUB, PDF | 504 KB + 3 MB
Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism places the naturalistic pragmatism of John Dewey in conversation with Motoori Norinaga’s mono no aware, a Japanese aesthetic theory of experience, to examine gender as a felt experience of an aware, or an affective quality of persons. By treating gender as an affect, Johnathan Charles Flowers argues that the experience of gendering and being gendered is a result of the affective perception of the organization of the body in line with cultural aesthetics embodied in Deweyan habit or Japanese kata broadly understood as culturally mediated transactions with the world. On this view, how the felt sense of identity aligns with the affective organization of society determines the nature of the possible social transactions between individuals. As such, this book intervenes in questions of personhood broadly-and identity specifically-by treating personhood itself as an affective sense. In doing so, this book demonstrates how questions of personhood and identity are themselves affective judgments. By treating gender and other identities as aware, this book advocates an expanded recognition of the how to be in the world through cultivating new ways of perceiving the affective organization of persons.

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