Author: Serge Mol
Publisher: Kodansha
Keywords: tactics, martial, arts, weapons, special, weaponry, japan, classical
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2003-06-06
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 4770029411
ISBN-13: 9784770029416

CLASSICAL WEAPONRY OF JAPAN is heavily illustrated with 340 photographs, including pictures of a huge number of weapons, demonstrations of techniques, ancient text scrolls, illustrated scrolls, and woodblock prints. This important work - the first in any of the major Western languages to thoroughly treat the special, secret weapons of Japan - will be of great interest to practitioners of jujutsu, kenjutsu, iaijutsu and ninjutsu, as well as to collectors of weaponry.

Author: Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Keywords: japanese, classics, illustrated, kodansha, bamboo, cutter, tale
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1998-09-16
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 4770023294
ISBN-13: 9784770023292

Preface by Donald KeeneTaketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) was probably written late in the ninth or early in the tenth century. Mention at the end of the tale that smoke still rose from Mount Fuji , a sign it was an active volcano, is an important clue to the date of composition, for we know that by 905 A.D. the mountain had ceased to emit smoke. Regardless of exactly when the tale was first set down on paper, it is the oldest surviving Japanese work of fiction; The Tale of Genji (written about 1010) referred to it as the "ancestor of all romances." Many theories have been pub

Author: Diane Durston
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Keywords: city, heart, paths, seven, kyoto
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-11-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 4770028776
ISBN-13: 9784770028778

What better way to see Kyoto than at dawn, when the back streets and alleys of this 1,200-year-old city are still under the spell of the past? Old folks fuss about with their bonsai and laundry poles, pausing to chat on their way to the neighborhood shrine with flowers and morning prayers. Knock-kneed white egrets stalk the stream beds for breakfast, and the giant bronze temple bells awaken the former capital of Japan every morning as they have done for centuries. Through wars, fires, famines, tyrants, and now rapid modernization, the old neighborhoods of Kyoto are the places where the customs

Authors:Masatoshi Yoshida, Yoshikatsu Nakamura,
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Keywords: japanese, english, dictionary, kodansha, furigana
Number of Pages: 1285
Published: 1999-10-31
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 4770024800
ISBN-13: 9784770024800

A comprehensive, communicative, and practical guide to using Japanese, Kodansha’s Furigana Japanese Dictionary is an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in the Japanese language. It has been edited with the needs of English-speaking users in mind, whether students, teachers, business people, or casual linguists, and special care has been taken at each stage of its compilation including the selection of entry words and their equivalents, the wording of the detailed explanations of Japanese words, the choice of example sentences, and even its functional page design to maximize its

Author: Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Keywords: lake
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2004-07-08
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 4770030010
ISBN-13: 9784770030016

The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man’s sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance, unconsummated. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous crime, his is an incurable longing that drives him to shadow nameless women in the street and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel’s," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is th

Author: Toshiro Daigo
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Keywords: techniques, throwing, judo, kodokan
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-08-05
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 4770023308
ISBN-13: 9784770023308

Throughout the long history of Japan’s martial traditions, judo has evolved into one of the nation’s richest and most revered cultural legacies. The vast array of judo techniques has branched out into three distinct categories: throwing techniques, grappling techniques, and striking techniques. Of these, throwing techniques (nage-waza) represent some of the most dynamic and compelling aspects of this world-famous martial art.Recent developments in competition (shiai) and free practice (randori) have seen an increase in the number of forms of nage-waza, leading to often confusing in

Author: AJALT
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: text, people, japanese
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1995-01-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 4770018827
ISBN-13: 9784770018823

In the ten years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acceptance worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. In this new edition, numerous revisions and additions have been made, taking into account the comments and responses of both students and teachers who have been using the course. In Book I, the revisions are directed at making the grammatical explanations easier to understand, while adding further explanations of points that students have difficulty with. Changes have also been made in favor of more na