Stone Bridge Press Berkeley Ca (146 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 197 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. "Kanji Pict-o-Graphix offers an engaging way to learn and memorize Kanji."-Rocky Mountain Region Japan Project "A fun book for studying kanji. The illustration reveals more of its contents and method than any description ever could."-Japan Times "It is a very nice book, simple and pretty effective. A useful addition to the library of all beginners who aspire to learn Japanese. Recommended."-Protoculture Addicts Learn more about kanji from Stone Bridge Press: Kana Pict-o-Graphix, Designing with Kanji, Kanji Starter 1&2, and Crazy for Kanji. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Who needs to speak Japanese? There's a lot you can say with traditional hand gestures and body motions that are universal as well as uniquely Japanese. This whimsical look at "the language of no language" will teach you to hurl insults, flirt, agree, excuse yourself, cross the street, and even make promises-wordlessly! (And who is that stoic guy wearing a suit in all the photos?) Finally, a way to tell someone at a loud party, "Your underwear is showing," in four easy hand motions. This is a book for the serious student, the class clown, and the crazy guy at Akihabara Station hoping to communicate with Godzilla. Hamiru-aqui is a Japanese artist based in Tokyo. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Anime is a huge market, and this is the exclusive, definitive book on the leading master of Japanese animation today, Hayao Miyazaki. Disney has licensed the Miyazaki line (e.g., Kiki's Delivery Service ) and plans another major release this summer. This book supplies informed discussions of style and narrative for each of Miyazaki's major films, with all the data and detail fans want. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 382 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Later Edition. Used Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Later Edition. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Mitsukuri, Saoko (illustrator). Used Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: NF. First Printing. Wrappers. Colorful pictorial spine and covers are clean and glossy. There is a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the head of the spine and at the very tips of the two lower outside corners. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 154 pages. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Your favorite Japanese foods, home-cooked, packaged, or served in restaurants, and how they came to delight the American palate.Tabemasho! Let's Eat! is a tasty look at how Japanese food has evolved in America from an exotic and mysteriouseven "gross"cuisine to the peak of culinary popularity, with sushi sold in supermarkets across the country and ramen available in hipster restaurants everywhere. The author was born in Japan and raised in the U.S. and has eaten his way through this amazing food revolution. Your favorite Japanese foods, home-cooked, packaged, or served in restaurants, and how they came to delight the American palate. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics.This provocative book is a tractatea treatiseon beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that follow the brush wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by elegant expressions of class and taste. He explains aesthetic concepts like wabi, sabi, aware, and yugen, and ponders their relevance in art and cinema today.Donald Richie is the foremost explorer of Japanese culture in English, and this work is the culmination of sixty years of observing and writing from his home in Tokyo. Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. Short stories by Americans and other 'aliens' living in Japan. ".an absorbing look at the Outsider in a nation that does not absorb foreigners easily." 360 pages. Published @ 18.95.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A timeless classic of Japanese children's literature: One night, alone on a hilltop, a young boy is swept aboard a magical train bound for the Milky Way. This tender fable is a book of great wisdom and adventure, offering insight into the afterlife. Kenji Miyazawa (18961933), little known in his lifetime, went on to be one Japan's most celebrated literary figures of the early 20th century for his children's stories. Perhaps Miyazawa's most beloved story in Japan, this translation of the Milky Way Railroad is sure to delight both children and parents, and evoke the same wonder and poignancy familiar to fans of Studio Ghibli. A tender, timeless fable about afterlife from Japan's best-loved children's writer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Okazaki, Ryu (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Here is a concise guide to supplement any course of study and help with homework, travel, and test preparation. Topics include word order, time, nouns, verbs, adjectives, word choices with verbs and adverbs, and letter writing. The simple format has one goal: quick mastery and growing confidence.Qin Xue Herzberg, a graduate of Beijing Normal University, has taught Chinese for decades and has been an upper-level Chinese professor at Calvin College for ten years.Larry Herzberg did his PhD work in Chinese and founded the Chinese language programs at Albion College and Calvin College.Qin and Larry live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are co-authors of the popular China Survival Guide as well as the recently released Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings. A handy classroom, test-prep, and study supplement to help you speak and write with confidence while avoiding common mistakes. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. first edition/second printing book is like new tightness with no markings, wraps have some rubbing and edges have curling/creasing.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Osamu Dazai is one of the most famous-and infamous-writers of 20th-century Japan. A Shameful Life (Ningen shikkaku) is his final published work and has become a bestselling classic for its depiction of the tortured struggle of a young man to survive in a world that he cannot comprehend. Paralleling the life and death of Dazai himself, the delicate weaving of fact and fiction remorselessly documents via journals the life of Yozo, a university student who spends his time in increasing isolation and debauchery. His doomed love affairs, suicide attempts, and constant fear of revealing his true self haunt the pages of the book and reveal a slow descent into madness. This dark tale nevertheless conveys something authentic about the human heart and its inability to find its true bearing. A new, definitive translation of the postwar classic know to the west asNo Longer Human-a tortured vision inspiring the likes of Junji Ito and Bungo Stray Dogs Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Number line in the book reads as follows: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997. Therefore, in my opinion, this appears to be a first edition, first printing. The work is a collection of short stories by non-Japanese who choose to live in Japan. A very nice copy.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In detailing the affair between a garden designer and his client's wife, this stylistic Japanese novel explores the roots of passion.Mizue is a Japanese housewife. Kase is a garden designer hired by her husband to landscape their home. As the garden takes shape, Mizue awakens to a new sensuality and desire. A disturbing tale of seduction, based on Japanese aesthetics and the artistic pursuit of destructive beauty.Tachihara Masaaki (1926-1980) was an award-winning Japanese novelist, essayist, poet and literary critic of Korean descent, active during the Showa period. Wind and Stone is his only full-length novel in English. In detailing the affair between a garden designer and his client's wife, this Japanese novel explores the roots of passion. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 15 chapters, 191 pages. Book is clean & binding is tight. A nice copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good copy. (see picturte).

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. How China became the China we know today, through war and societal transformation.China entered the 20th century as an agrarian society, weakened under internal and external pressures. Revolutionaries came together to bring down the last imperial dynasty but quickly split over the direction of reconstruction. Civil wars ensued, followed by WWI. The fate of the country appeared to be in the hands of industrial powers like Britain, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States. All seemed lost when Japan seized all Chinese seaports, railways, industries, and fertile farmland. Yet Chinese resistance continued for eight years and the entire society was mobilized. After decades of struggling, China finally regained independence that laid the foundation for its own modernization. How China became the China we know today, through war and societal transformation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Japan's capital city of Kyoto was devastated by earthquake, storm, and fire in the late 12th century. Retreating from "this unkind world," the poet and Buddhist priest Kamo-no-Chomei left the capital for the forested mountains, where he eventually constructed his famous "ten-foot-square" hut. From this solitary vantage point Chomei produced Hojoki, an extraordinary literary work that describes all he has seen of human misery and his new life of simple chores, walks, and acts of kindness. Yet at the end he questions his own sanity and the integrity of his purpose. Has he perhaps grown too attached to his detachment? An extraordinary literary work from the 12th century, a meditation on nature and mortality. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Hofmann, Michael (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description and build into richly meditative excursions into art, Buddhism, nature, and science. Landscape architect Marc Keane shows how Japanese gardens are both a microcosm of the natural universe and a clear expression of our humanity, mirroring how we think, worship, and organize our lives and communities. Filled with passages of alluring beauty, this is a truly transcendent book about "experiencing" Japanese design.Marc Peter Keane has lived in Kyoto for 17 years and is author of Japanese Garden Design. He designs residential, company, and temple gardens. A garden designer in Japan looks deeply into nature and composition to discover truth and beauty. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An informal yet informed journey through the classic works of Japanese cinema and their directors.This is a passionate, personal journey through one of the worlds greatest national cinemas, beginning with the classic directors who came to the fore in the postwar period and became legendary names on the art house circuit: Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, Kobayashi, Naruse, and Oshima, among others. Japanese Cinema traces the common themes explored by these directors as well as the impact of important historical and cultural issues, including World War 2, the representation of women, and the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s. Finally, Peter Cowie surveys the state of contemporary Japanese film and its greatest living practitioners, Hirokazu Kore-eda among them, as well as the international face of Japanese animation, Hayao Miyazaki. Cowie brings a lifetimes commitment to film to bear on the human relationships so well explored by these Japanese auteurs. An informal yet informed journey through the classic works of Japanese cinema and their directors. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Reprint. A clean, tight reprint of the 1883 original, issued with no evident alterations. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; 660 BC - AD 1872; 7.3 X 5.3 X 1.4 inches; 512 pages.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner of the Akutagawa PrizeAn award-winning translation of the classic novella about discrimination and generational dysfunction in Japan.Born into the burakuminJapan's class of outcastsKenji Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in sensual language and stark detail. The Cape is a breakthrough novella about a burakumin community, their troubled memories, and complex family histories. Includes "House on Fire" and "Red Hair." Explosive stories of the little-known burakumin from one of Japan's great postwar literary masters. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. With today's sake drinkers increasingly informed and adventurous, now is the time for a truly expert guide to take you deeper into appreciation of this complex beverage, brewed from rice and enjoyed both warm or chilled. And what better mentor than John Gauntner, the "Sake Guy" and the world's only non-Japanese certified Master of Sake Tasting? Here in over two dozen no-holds-barred essays, John reveals "the truth about sake" from a connected insider's perspective. An American sake expert takes you to a whole new level of insider knowledge and expertise Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A powerful and thought-provoking novel that raises important questions about World War II, war memory, and US imperialism and blowback.In the Woods of Memory is a powerful, thought-provoking novel that focuses on two incidents during the Battle of Okinawa, 1945: the sexual assault on Sayoko, 17, by four US soldiers and her friend Seijis attempt at revenge.Narrations through nine points of view, Japanese and American, from 1945 to the present day reveal the full complexity of events and how war trauma inevitably ripples through the generations. A powerful and thought-provoking novel that raises important questions about World War II, war memory, and US imperialism and blowback. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Women, Magic, Wisdom: Explore a Japanese myth through the words and images of key scholars and artists.Alluring, nurturing, dangerous, and vulnerable the yamamba, or Japanese mountain witch, has intrigued audiences for centuries. What is it about the fusion of mountains with the solitary old woman that produces such an enigmatic figure? And why does she still call to us in this modern, scientific era?Co-editors Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich first met the yamamba in the powerful short story "The Smile of the Mountain Witch" by acclaimed woman writer ba Minako. The story revealed the compelling way creative women can take charge of misogynistic tropes, invert them, and use them to tell new stories of female empowerment.This unique collection represents the creative and surprising ways artists and scholars from North America and Japan have encountered the yamamba. Women, Magic, Wisdom: Explore a Japanese myth through the words and images of key scholars and artists. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…