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This title gives us the many captivating stories behind the hundreds of Hawai'i place names associated with the ocean - the names of shores, beaches, and other sites where people fish, swim, dive, surf, and paddle.

This work concerns the history of the Japanese philosophy of art, from its inception in the 1870s to the present. It discusses the momentous efforts made by Japanese thinkers to master, assimilate and transform Western philosophical systems to discuss their own literary and artistic heritage.

Exploring nationalism and gender in the context of modern Japan, this text combines field research with an examination of the documents produced at various levels of society. It provides a look at the women as national subjects through the critical chapters of Japanese modernity and postmodernity.

The Big Island's shoreline is remarkably diverse and dynamic and includes more than a hundred black, green, and white sand beaches.

Examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes "superfluous things" - the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China - and describes contemporary attitudes to them.

Tsunayoshi (1646-1709), the fifth Tokugawa shogun, is viewed by many as a tyrant. His Laws of Compassion, which made the maltreatment of dogs an offense punishable by death, earned him the nickname Dog Shogun. This work presents an analysis of Tsunayoshi's background, which sheds new light on his personality and his policies.

This book offers 14 interdisciplinary studies on transgender identities and relevant non-normative forms of gender and sexuality among Pacific Islanders. One of the goals of the editors is to show that the transgender issues can garner academic discussions without being overly simplistic or particularistic. Essays point readers to the fact that different social configurations, cultural dynamics, and historical trajectories, particularly in reference to colonialism, have generated different ways of being transgender across Pacific Island societies, while at the same time these differences are overlaid with commonalities and predictabilities.

These textbooks are the seventh and eighth volumes in a five-level series developed collaboratively by leading classroom rteachers and linguists of Korean. Grammar points are systematically introduces with simple but adequate explanations and abundant examples, exercises and drills.

A remarkable collection of essays, Shobogenzo was composed in the thirteenth century by the Zen master Dogen, founder of the Soto Zen school in Japan. Through its linguistic artistry and its philosophical subtlety, Shobogenzo presents a thorough recasting of Buddhism with a creative ingenuity that has never been matched.

Entry Into the Inconceivable is an introduction to the philosophy of the Hua-yen school of Buddhism, one of the cornerstones of East Asian Buddhist thought. Cleary presents a survey of the unique Buddhist scripture on which the Hua-yen teaching is based and a brief history of its introduction into China. He also presents a succinct analysis of the essential metaphysics of Hua-yen Buddhism as it developed during China's golden age and full translations of four basic texts by seminal thinkers of the school.

An expansion of the ""ABC Chinese-English Dictionary"", this alphabetically ordered dictionary of Chinese contains over 196,000 entries.