Author: Yukio Tsuchiya
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: people, war, animals, story, elephants, true, faithful
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1997-10-30
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0395861373
ISBN-13: 9780395861370

A zookeeper recounts the story of John, Tonky, and Wanly, three performing elephants at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, whose turn it is to die, and of their keepers, who weep and pray that World War II will end so their beloved elephants might be saved.

Authors:Yoshio Tsuchiya, Masaru Yamamoto,
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: arrangement, food, japanese, art, fine
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2003-01-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 4770029306
ISBN-13: 9784770029300

Japanese cooking, it is often said, is to be eaten with the eyes. Compelling are the food arrangements that the diner experiencing a traditional meal for the first time often finds that his or her impressions of the presentation often overshadow the taste of the food. This guide illustrates in detail the aesthetic delights of Japanese food presentation. The text demonstrates how beauty, colour, form and flavour are married within one presentation, and each section is introduced by food arrangements appropriate to the Japanese seasons. There is a full list of captions to the photographs at the

Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: waves, sound
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1994-10-04
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679752684
ISBN-13: 9780679752684

Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.

Author: Yukio Hori
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: lubrication, hydrodynamic
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2005-12-19
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 4431278982
ISBN-13: 9784431278986

Hydrodynamic lubrication plays an important role in mechanical engineering, although not very many books have been published on the subject. This book was written with graduate students, researchers and designers in view. The first four chapters are preparations for the following five chapters, where several most important subjects in hydrodynamic lubrication are discussed in detail, based on the author’s own researches. Examples are oil whip (stability of rotating shafts), foil bearings in connection with magnetic tape storages, squeeze film between rigid surfaces and visco-elastic surface

Author: Yukio Matsumoto
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: monographs, vol, mathematical, translations, morse, theory, introduction
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 2001-12
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0821810227
ISBN-13: 9780821810224

In a very broad sense, "spaces" are objects of study in geometry, and "functions" are objects of study in analysis. There are, however, deep relations between functions defined on a space and the shape of the space, and the study of these relations is the main theme of Morse theory. In particular, its feature is to look at the critical points of a function, and to derive information on the shape of the space from the information about the critical points. Morse theory deals with both finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional spaces. In particular, it is believed that Morse theory on

Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: stories, seven, worship, acts
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-09-13
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 4770028938
ISBN-13: 9784770028938

When Mishima committed ritual suicide in November 1970, he was only forty-five. He had written over thirty novels, eighteen plays, and twenty volumes of short stories. During his lifetime, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times and had seen almost all of his major novels appear in English. While the flamboyance of his life and the apparent fanaticism of his death have dominated the public’s perception of his achievement, Japanese and Western critics alike are in agreement that his literary gifts were prodigious. Mishima is arguably at his best in the shorter forms, and it is

Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: hitler, friend
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-11-15
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0231126336
ISBN-13: 9780231126335

Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas -two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, "I started writing dramas just as water flows toward a lower place. In me, the topography of dramas seems to be situated far below that of novels. It seems to be in a place which is more instinctive, closer to child’s play." For English readers, these plays have been one of Japan’s best-kept secrets -unt