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"A thunderbolt, full of lightning and excitement, one you won't put down until its last extraordinary page." -The Japan TimesThe violence of twelfth-century Japan explodes in this half-legendary, half-true story of a violent man who becomes a folk hero. A heartless savage, the Ronin, or "wandering samurai," slashes his way up from the gutter to wealth, honor and status. In spite of his crime sand bloodthirsty cruelty, he bears the strange mark of destiny that the wise see and respect, even as he destroys them.Told with humor and irony, the tale ranges from the pleasantly colloquial to the brutally satiric, yet never relents in the Ronin's ruthless search for the truth. The storyteller hides nothing and speaks bluntly, yet this jewel-like tale shimmers with tantalizing riddles that will haunt the reader just as they haunted the Ronin. Sure to shock, confound and ultimately inspire readers, The Ronin is loosely based upon an ancient legend told to the author by the Zen Master Nyogen Senzaki.
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"A thunderbolt, full of lightning and excitement, one you won't put down until its last extraordinary page." --The Japan Times
-A thunderbolt, full of lightning and excitement, one you won't put down until its last extraordinary page.- --The Japan Times
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Profiling individual, legendary authors, best-selling author Jerry Hopkins combines his research and his own experiences as a longtime expatriate with an intimate knowledge of Asia and offers us a unique perspective on the impact of Eastern culture in Western literature.
From the time of Marco Polo's trek across the Central Asian desert to the empire of the mighty Kahn, no other place on earth, not the languid South Pacific or even deepest, darkest Africa has so challenged and enchanted the Western imagination as have the fabled lands of the East.
However soaked in blood its history and no matter how unsettling its social conditions and poverty, Asia has never lost its irresistible attraction or mystic. It has long been an inspiration for Western novelists, so much so that more than 5000 novels have been set in Asia in the English language alone. Storied names like Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Pearl S. Buck, George Orwell, Graham Greene, E.M. Forster and many more have used their experiences in Asia as a vibrant backdrop for some of the world's most famous works of literature.
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The Ronin; A Novel Based on a Zen Myth.
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Tuttle Pub (edition First Edition), 1969
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The Black Ship Scroll: An Account of the Perry Expedition At Shimoda in 1854 & the Lively Beginnings of People-To-People Relations between Japan and America, Based on Contemporary Records, with Translations by Richard Lane, Ph. D. and Scroll Paintings in Full-Color
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Charles E. Tuttle Company: Weatherhill Books, Rutland, VT, 1964
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition; Fourth Printing. Very Good+ to Near Fine in a Very Good DJ. The Book shows rubbing to the titles at the back-strip, though they remain easily legible; a hint of tanning to the text pages; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the noted imperfections only. Bright and Clean. Corners sharp. The DJ shows a hint of rubbing and toning to the panels and back-strip; two small coffee stains to the upper front panel; the price has been clipped. Remains attractive, but showing the noted imperfections. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Small, thin 4to (10.35 x 5.3 x 0.65 inches) . Text and 40 pages of color scroll paintings. Language: English. Weight: 12.7 ounces. Black quarter-cloth on cream boards with embossed red and black titles at the upper front panel and cream titles at the back-strip. Decorated endpapers. Weathermark Editions. Hardcover with DJ. An unusual and aesthetically pleasing volume, centering around the unofficial Japanese perspective of the Perry expedition of 1854. Though titled "The Black Ship Scroll", the stylized colored pictures are really from two scrolls, which circulated among the general readership of Japan soon after the expedition and which may indeed have had a single original source. The introduction is 23 pages long and contains much interesting background information, but of course is by no means an exhaustive history of the expedition - nor is it intended to be. Colored pictures with Japanese captions and English footnotes span 40 pages. They are not in themselves exceptional artistically, but represent your average Japanese scrollwork of the time. Their interest is mainly historical as a representation of the attitudes and cultural impressions and exchanges of the moment. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 80 pages. Seller Inventory # 59679
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The Ronin; A Novel Based on a Zen Myth. Jennings, William Dale
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