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  • Sex and the Floating World

    Erotic Images in Japan 1700-1820

    by Timon Screech ...
    Series series
    Newly revised and expanded, this second edition of Timon Screech’s definitive Sex and the Floating World offers a real assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints today known as shunga. Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many shunga picture-books have since appeared. There has, however, been very little attempt ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Shogun's Silver Telescope and the Cargo of the New Year's Gift

    God, Art & Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-25

    by Timon Screech ...
    The East India Company, founded in London in 1600, was originally a spice trading organisation. But its governors soon began to think bigger. After a decade, they started to plan voyages to more fabulous places, notably India and Japan. Rich in silver, Japan was a desirable trading partner; crucially, it was also cold in winter. England's main export was woollen cloth, which would not sell in hot ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Tokyo Before Tokyo

    Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo

    by Timon Screech ...
    Tokyo today is one of the world’s mega-cities, and the centre of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture – but not everyone is aware of its past. Founded in 1590 as the seat of the warlord Tokugawa family, Tokyo, then called ‘Edo’, was the locus of Japanese trade, economics and urban civilization until 1868, when it mutated into Tokyo and became Japan’s modern capital.This beautifully illustrated ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Lens Within the Heart

    The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan

    by Timon Screech ...
    Presenting a revised edition with a new preface of this important work, previously available only in hardback. It has long been assumed that Japan's closed country policy meant that Japan was isolated from the influence of the outside, and in particular the Western, world. However, this study of 18th century Japan, using sources wholly unstudied since their writing, reveals the profound influence ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns

    Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822

    by Isaac Titsingh ...
    Isaac Titsingh was intermittently head of the Japan factory (trading station) of the Dutch East India Company 1780-94. He was a career merchant, but unusual in having a classical education and training as a physician. His impact in Japan was enormous, but he left disappointed in the ability of the country to embrace change. After many years in Java, India and China, he came to London, and then ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Shogun’s Painted Culture

    Fear and Creativity in the Japanese States 1760–1829

    by Timon Screech ...
    Series series Envisioning Asia
    In this penetrating analysis of a little-explored area of Japanese cultural history, Timon Screech reassesses the career of the chief minister Matsudaira Sadanobu, who played a key role in defining what we think of as Japanese culture today. Aware of how visual representations could support or undermine regimes, Sadanobu promoted painting to advance his own political aims and improve the shogunate ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Japan Extolled and Decried

    Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776

    by C.P. Thunberg ...
    This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spent eighteen fascinating months in the notoriously inaccessible Japan in 1775-1776, and this is his story.Thunberg studied at Uppsala University in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Global Japanese History and Culture

    De-Isolating Japan from Past to Present

    Edited by Oliver White, Mai Kataoka, Timon Screech ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Spanning prehistory to the present, concise chapters by established and emerging scholars trace the movement of people, texts, images, beliefs, and commodities in and out of Japan, and beyond.From ancient trade routes to contemporary pop culture, Japan has always been connected. This book reframes Japan not as an isolated exception, but as an active participant in exchange—absorbing, adapting, and ... Read more

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    by Stephen Batchelor ...
    *Does Buddhism require faith? Can an atheist or agnostic follow the Buddha’s teachings without believing in reincarnation or organized religion?This is one man’s confession.*In his classic Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen Batchelor offered a profound, secular approach to the teachings of the Buddha that struck an emotional chord with Western readers. Now, with the same brilliance and boldness of ... Read more

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  • Zen Culture

    by Thomas Hoover ...
    Anyone who examines the Zen arts is immediately struck by how modern they seem. The ceramics of 16th-century Zen artists could be interchanged with the rugged pots of our own contemporary crafts movement; ancient calligraphies suggest the monochromes of Franz Kline or Willem de Kooning; the apparent nonsense and illogic of Zen parables (and No theater and Haiku poetry) established the limitations ... Read more

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  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of Japan

    by Richard Tames ...
    <I>A Traveller’s History of Japan</I> not only offers the reader a chronological outline of the nation’s development but also provides an invaluable introduction to its language, literature and arts, from kabuki to karaoke. This clearly written history explains how a country embedded in the traditions of Shinto, Shoguns and Samurai has achieved stupendous economic growth ... Read more

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  • The World of the Shining Prince

    Court Life in Ancient Japan

    by Ivan Morris ...
    Ivan Morris’s definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan. • "A book which should delight anyone interested in Japan.” —The New York Times Book ReviewUsing The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan’s Heian period as a frame of reference, The World of the Shining Prince recreates an era when women set the cultural tone. ... Read more

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