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Japanese Art: A beginning guide to drawing Japanese Comic Art

by admin on September 23, 2016 in Ebooks with No comments

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True Crime Japan: Thieves, Rascals, Killers and Dope Heads: True Stories From a Japanese Courtroom

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Japanese Tattoos: History * Culture * Design

by admin on June 16, 2016 in Ebooks with No comments

Thinking of getting a Japanese-style tattoo? Want to avoid a permanent mistake? Japanese Tattoos is an insider’s look at the world of Japanese irezumi (tattoos).

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Kyoto Gardens: Masterworks of the Japanese Gardener’s Art

by admin on August 22, 2015 in Ebooks with No comments

Judith Clancy, "Kyoto Gardens: Masterworks of the Japanese Gardener’s Art"
ISBN: 4805313218 | 2015 | True PDF | 144 pages | 69 MB

Featuring beautiful Japanese garden photography and insightful writing, Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy. In their rocks and plants, empty spaces and intimate details-Kyoto’s gardens manifest a unique ability to provoke thought and delight in equal measure. These varied landscapes meld the sensuality of nature with the disciplines of cosmology, poetry and meditation. Japanese aristocrats created these gardens to display not just wealth and power, but cultural sensitivity and an appreciation for transcendent beauty. A class of professional gardeners eventually emerged, transforming Japanese landscape design into a formalized art. Today, Kyoto’s gardens display an enormous range of forms-from rock gardens display of extreme minimalism and subtle hues, to stroll gardens of luscious proportions and vibrant colors.

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Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hogai and the Search for Images

by admin on August 10, 2015 in Ebooks with No comments

Chelsea Foxwell, “Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hogai and the Search for Images”
ISBN: 022611080X | 2015 | PDF | 296 pages | 11 MB

The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world’s fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a perceived end to pure Japanese art and a rise in westernized cultural hybrids. The Japanese response: nihonga, a traditional style of painting that reframed existing techniques to distinguish them from Western artistic conventions. Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting explores the visual characteristics and social functions of nihonga and traces its relationship to the past, its viewers, and emerging notions of the modern Japanese state.

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Cook Japanese with Tamako: Hearty Meals for the Whole Family

by admin on April 29, 2015 in Ebooks with No comments

Cook Japanese with Tamako is a collection of 54 recipes for simple yet tasty Japanese-style meals suitable for the whole family, from soups and salads that can be quickly and easily put together, meat and seafood dishes that are both hearty and comforting, and desserts that will brighten any table. Insightful short stories and heart-warming anecdotes on daily family life accompany the recipes, making this book perfect for anyone looking to go beyond typical Japanese restaurant fare to delve into the heart and soul of Japanese food and family traditions.

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