Eldest Son Zhou Enlai And The Making Of Modern China 1898 1976 (1995 publication)

Han, Suyin

Biographies & Memoirs

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The Arts of Japan: 001

Arts & Photography

Noma, Seiroku

History & Criticism

The Arts of Japan: Ancient and Medieval, the first volume of the two, focuses on Japanese art history up to the end of the sixteenth century-from the arts and tomb artifacts of prehistoric Japan to the Buddhist and secular arts that were developed in the successive capitals at Nara and Kyoto as well as in provincial centers.

The Arts of Japan (2 Volume Set)

This book includes Kawabata's Nobel Prize 1968 acceptance speech, "The Key to Kawabata". the book is bilingual, with the English first and then the Japanese.

Japan the Beautiful and Myself (English and Japanese Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Kawabata, Yasunari

Poetry

This work is the first to deal with Zen painting comprehensively as a category of art in its own right. Not, of course, that a knowledge of Zen is necessary to appreciate it; seen quite simply as a collection of ink paintings, it is superbly enjoyable. Part of the enjoyment derives from the wide range of styles. These extend from comparatively conventional Chinese-style landscapes, via works such as Sesshu's "Haboku Landscape" (that wonderful piece of scenery from the inner mind) to the incredibly "modern" lines, circles, and freely drawn figures of Hakuin, Sengai, and the later artists. In this sense, the book is an intriguing guide to the magnificently varied affects that can be achieved using the simple medium of brush and Chinese ink. The 135 paintings in this volume include some of the finest masterpieces of the ink monochrome ever produced in Japan. But the book achieves something more than that. It also demonstrates, beyond all doubt, the existence of "Zen painting" in its own right. And in doing so it will tell the reader, better than any words could do, something about the nature of Zen--that baffling religion that in the West at least is more discussed, perhaps, than understood. The Zen in this art is unmistakable. It may appear in an unconventional treatment of a conventional subject; in a wild spontaneity, irreverence and sense of humor; in a conciseness that transforms familiar things into raw, essential forms that are both immediate and have dimensions and layers of meaning for those able to see; in an exuberance of energy that contains at once an understanding of joy and pathos; in a use of space to suggest simultaneously both limitless depths and nothing at all.

Zen Painting. (English and Japanese Edition)

Yasuichi Awakawa

Collector's edition underlined in by one of the world's greatest screenwriter's, Leonard Schrader. the writer of the screenplay Mishima

Sun and Steel

Mishima,Yukio

Contents: Acknowledgments * The Course of Chinese Painting * Painting in Modern China * The Plates * Notes to the Plates * Chronological Table * Map of China * List of Artists.

Arts of China: Paintings In Chinese Museums- New Collections

Yoshida Yonezawa & Michiaki Kawakita

The Ramakien: The Thai Epic

J. M. Cadet

Religion & Spirituality

A domestic tragedy begins when a dutiful Japanese wife is sent out to find a mistress for her husband

The Waiting Years (English and Japanese Edition)

Enchi, Fumiko

Contemporary

Sixteen short stories with underlying nature themes.

Winds from Afar (English and Japanese Edition)

Miyazawa, Kenji

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