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Armchair travelers beware!
Japanese Things will lure you out of your cozy, comfy home and chair to an unusual country with bewitching manners and customsand once you have succumbed to its spell you will never be the same. Here in one neat package you will meet the flavor, charm, and piquancy of old Japana revised reprint of one of the indispensable books on Japan, by the late Prof. Basil Hall Chamberlain,
eminent British scholar who in the latter part of the 19th century "taught Japanese and Japan to the Japanese." Many books in one, this monumental compilation contains such diversified subjects as Art and Abacus; Botany and Buddhism; Charms and Cherry Blossoms; Daimyos and Divination; Fairy Tales and Flowers; Gardens and Government; History and Hara-kiri; Law and Language; Marriage and Music; Poetry and Pottery; Shinto and Singing Girls (Geisha); Tea and Theater, and Writing and Wood Engraving. In this long-awaited reprint, in which the title has been changed from Things Japanese, the reader will encounter exquisite objects of daily Japanese life, the gardens and cultures of the fields, the harmony and balance in the fundamentals of day-by-day existence.
Japanese Things will lure you out of your cozy, comfy home and chair to an unusual country with bewitching manners and customsand once you have succumbed to its spell you will never be the same. Here in one neat package you will meet the flavor, charm, and piquancy of old Japana revised reprint of one of the indispensable books on Japan, by the late Prof. Basil Hall Chamberlain,
eminent British scholar who in the latter part of the 19th century "taught Japanese and Japan to the Japanese." Many books in one, this monumental compilation contains such diversified subjects as Art and Abacus; Botany and Buddhism; Charms and Cherry Blossoms; Daimyos and Divination; Fairy Tales and Flowers; Gardens and Government; History and Hara-kiri; Law and Language; Marriage and Music; Poetry and Pottery; Shinto and Singing Girls (Geisha); Tea and Theater, and Writing and Wood Engraving. In this long-awaited reprint, in which the title has been changed from Things Japanese, the reader will encounter exquisite objects of daily Japanese life, the gardens and cultures of the fields, the harmony and balance in the fundamentals of day-by-day existence.
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Japanese Things; Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With Japan, for the Use of Travelers and Others.
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Charles E. Tuttle (edition Later Printing Used), 1978
ISBN 10: 0804807132
ISBN 13: 9780804807135
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Japanese Things; Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With Japan, for the Use of Travelers and Others.
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JAPANESE THINGS ( BEING NOTES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH JAPAN )
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TUTTLE PUBLISHING, JAPAN, 1994
ISBN 10: 0804807132
ISBN 13: 9780804807135
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. . POCKET PAPERBACK EDITION.NOT ex-library copy .slightly bumped corners. . text unmarked. Seller Inventory # 003256
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Japanese Things: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan
Seller: N. Fagin Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1971. Asia, Japan. Charles E. Tuttle. 568p., very good paperback. 3/23. Seller Inventory # 88183
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Japanese Things: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With Japan, for the Use of Travelers and Others.
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1980 12TH PRINTING. Seller Inventory # 023332