Memories of Silk and Straw
Title | Memories of Silk and Straw PDF eBook |
Author | Junichi Saga |
Publisher | Kodansha Amer Incorporated |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780870119880 |
Over 50 reminiscences of pre-modern Japan. This book presents an illustrationf a way of life that has virtually disappeared.
Memories of Silk and Straw
Title | Memories of Silk and Straw PDF eBook |
Author | Junʼichi Saga |
Publisher | Kodansha America |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
A cotton dyer, blacksmith, tofu maker, undertaker, carter, tenant farmer, local gangster, casual laborer, horse-meat butcher, official executioner, magistrate's wife, apprentice geisha, rice merchant, thatcher, carpenter, midwife, county hangman, pawnbroker, draper, fisherman, hairdresser, servant, charcoal burner share their memories to describe the old feudal Japan of fifty years ago or more.
Teaching World History: A Resource Book
Title | Teaching World History: A Resource Book PDF eBook |
Author | Heidi Roupp |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2015-03-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317458931 |
A resource book for teachers of world history at all levels. The text contains individual sections on art, gender, religion, philosophy, literature, trade and technology. Lesson plans, reading and multi-media recommendations and suggestions for classroom activities are also provided.
Memories of Silk and Straw
Title | Memories of Silk and Straw PDF eBook |
Author | Jun'ichi Saga |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Japan |
ISBN | 9789718715031 |
Confessions of a Yakuza
Title | Confessions of a Yakuza PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. Junichi Saga |
Publisher | Kodansha USA |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2010-08-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 4770050097 |
This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn’t a "good" life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to tell presents an honest and oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world. In his low, hoarse voice, he describes the random events that led the son of a prosperous country shopkeeper to become a member, and ultimately the leader, of a gang organizing illegal dice games in Tokyo's liveliest entertainment area. He talks about his first police raid, and the brutal interrogation and imprisonment that followed it. He remembers his first love affair, and the girl he ran away with, and the weeks they spent wandering about the countryside together. Briefly, and matter-of-factly, he describes how he cut off the little finger of his left hand as a ritual gesture of apology. He explains how the games were run and the profits spent; why the ties between members of "the brotherhood" were so important; and how he came to kill a man who worked for him. What emerges is a contradictory personality: tough but not unsentimental; stubborn yet willing to take life more or less as it comes; impulsive but careful to observe the rules of the business he had joined. And in the end, when his tale is finished, you feel you would probably have liked him if you'd met him in person. Fortunately, Dr. Saga's record of his long conversations with him provides a wonderful substitute for that meeting.
Women of the Silk
Title | Women of the Silk PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Tsukiyama |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429952296 |
In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength.
J-Boys
Title | J-Boys PDF eBook |
Author | Shogo Oketani |
Publisher | Stone Bridge Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2011-07-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1611725135 |
Kazuo Nakamoto's life in inner-city Tokyo is one of tea and tofu, of American TV and rock 'n' roll. Kazuo is nine. It is the mid-1960s, just after the Japan Olympics, and Kazuo dreams of being a track star. He hangs out with his buddies, goes to school, and helps with household chores. But Kazuo's world is changing. This bittersweet novel is a deft portrait of a year in a boy's life in a land and time far away, filled with universal concerns about fitting in, escaping the past (in this case World War II's lingering devastation), and growing up. J-Boys author Shogo Oketani is a writer and novelist who grew up in Tokyo in the mid-1960s.