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This collection of essays constitutes a history of modern Japanese aesthetics. It introduces readers through translations to works on the philosophy of art written by major Japanese thinkers from the late-19th century to the present.

Charles H. Hammatt arrived in Hawaii in 1823 and remained long enough to form his own opinions about native society there. He recorded his encounters and observations in his journal, which provides an unexpected and intimate glimpse of life in frontier Hawaii.

A firsthand account of the incarceration of a Hawai'i Japanese during World War II.

Tells the beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of the Minaguchi-ya is a social history of Japan through 400 years, a ringside seat to some of the most stirring events of a stirring period.

Takuan Sho's (1573-1645) two works on Zen and swordsmanship are among the most straightforward and lively presentations of Zen ever written and have enjoyed great popularity in both pre-modern and modern Japan.

This book joins a growing body of work in an area called Animal Studies. Drawing as it does on strong human attachments to non-human animalswhether as pet, specimen, food, or spectacleAnimal Studies is now a vibrant area of interdisciplinary research.

Examines the social worlds and interrelationships of traffickers, victims, and trafficking activists along the Thai-Lao border. It explores local efforts to reconcile international legal concepts, the bureaucratic prescriptions of aid organizations, and global development ideologies with on-the-ground realities of sexual commerce.

Theravada Buddhism is practiced in Sri Lanka and throughout most of Southeast Asia. Introduced in the work in accessible language suitable to the undergraduate or gender reader. It surveys Theravadas basic teachings and contemporary practice in its traditional settings in South and Southeast Asia and discusses the current state of Theravada throughout the world.

An exploration of Buddhism during the Sung Dynasty (960-1279). It asserts, that, far from signalling a decline, the Sung was a period of great efflorescence in Buddhism. The studies presented focus largely on elite figures, elite traditions, and interactions among Buddhists and literati.

This work is an inquiry into the emergence of ""victim consciousness"" as an essential component of Japanese pacifist national identity after World War II. It reveals how postwar Japanese elites and American occupying authorities collaborated to structure the parameters of remembrance of the war.

A study of the notion of artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercultural motif for East-West comparative aesthetics. It opens with an overview of aesthetic theory in the West since the 18th-century empiricists and concludes with a survey of various critiques of psychic distance.

The Yellow River has long been viewed as a symbol of China's cultural and political development, its management traditionally held as a gauge of dynastic power. This work examines long-term efforts to manage the river, and the nature of the bureaucracy created to do the job.

Provides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, and often multinational communities in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute a majority.

How can the art of healing ally itself with the art of killing? ""Watching Your Back"" applies Daoist notions of wellness and survival to reconcile these apparent paradoxes and unveil the origins and rationale of the unexplored symbiosis of Chinese medicine and the martial arts.

This is a complete examination of the tsunami phenomenon in Hawaii. It includes eyewitness accounts of the 1946 and 1960 tsunamis, our scientific understanding of tsunamis, the tsunami warning system and other major tsunamis from Japan to the Caribbean.

"Lords of Things" offers an interpretation of modernity in late 19th and early 20th century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion itself and its public image in the early stages of globalization.

Turning to three sources - historical, archaeological, and mythological, this title provides a multifaceted study of Himiko and ancient Japanese society.

The stories of Kaua'i's ruling chiefs were passed from generation to generation in songs and narratives recited by trained storytellers. Genealogical references to the chiefs are interspersed with legends of sea voyages, wars, heroes and romances in this resource book.