Hakata

Author : Andrew Cobbing
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004243088

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Hakata by Andrew Cobbing Pdf

In Hakata: The Cultural Worlds of Northern Kyushu, experts in various fields have collaborated to produce an interdisciplinary collection offering diverse insights on a region yet to be fully addressed in English. A historic port situated in a strategically vital region as the closest point of contact with the Asian continent, Hakata has long served as a key hub in the transcultural networks linking Japan with the outside world. This volume explores the rich legacy of these wider interactions, in particular the cosmopolitan, international dimension deeply embedded in Hakata's urban culture. With an identity all its own and quite distinct from other regions in Japan, it is a culture once again increasingly relevant in today's world of borderless communications.

Author : Louis Fr?d?ric,Louis-Frédéric
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0674017536

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Japan Encyclopedia by Louis Fr?d?ric,Louis-Frédéric Pdf

"Knowing Japan and the Japanese better," Louis Frédéric states in the introduction to this encyclopedia, "is one of the necessities of modern life." The Japanese have a profound knowledge of every aspect and detail of Western societies. Unfortunately, we in the West cannot say the same about our knowledge of Japan. We tend to see Japan through a veil of exoticism, as a land of ancient customs and exquisite arts; or we view it as a powerful contributor to the global economy, the source of cutting-edge electronics and innovative management techniques. To go beyond these clichés, we must begin to see how apparently contradictory aspects of modern Japanese culture spring from the country's evolution through more than two millennia of history. This richly detailed yet concise encyclopedia is a guide to the full range of Japanese history and civilization, from the dawn of its prehistory to today, providing clear and accessible information on society and institutions, commerce and industry, sciences, sports, and politics, with particular emphasis on religion, material culture, and the arts. The volume is enhanced by maps and illustrations, along with a detailed chronology of more than 2,000 years of Japanese history and a comprehensive bibliography. Cross-references and an index help the reader trace themes from one article to the next. Japan Encyclopedia will be an indispensable one-volume reference for students, scholars, travelers, journalists, and anyone who wishes to learn more about the past and present of this great world civilization.

Author : Simon Kaner,Brian Ayers,Richard Pearson,Oscar Wrenn
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789694277

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The Archaeology of Medieval Towns: Case Studies from Japan and Europe by Simon Kaner,Brian Ayers,Richard Pearson,Oscar Wrenn Pdf

In recent years, major new archaeological discoveries have redefined the development of towns and cities in Japan. This fully illustrated book provides a sampler of these findings for a western audience. The new discoveries from Japan are set in context of medieval archaeology beyond Japan by accompanying essays from leading European specialists.

Author : Saburo Saito,Kosuke Yamashiro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811317392

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Advances in Kaiyu Studies by Saburo Saito,Kosuke Yamashiro Pdf

This book is the first systematic exposition of advances in Kaiyu studies carried out by the author and his colleagues in Japan and other parts of Asia. Consumer shop-around behavior is referred to as Kaiyu in Japanese, a term widely used in several fields such as city planning, marketing, real estate, tourism, and regional policy. The book demonstrates how Kaiyu research has evolved from the original idea to the present state and envisages prospective Kaiyu studies in the age of big data and the Internet of Things (IoT). The distinguishing feature of their research is that Kaiyu is regarded as consumers’ simultaneous decisions sequentially made while undertaking their shop-arounds as to which shops they visit, for what purpose, and how much they spend there. This is a sharp contrast to much research on trip chains, which only deal with spatial movements. As a result, their studies first succeeded in empirically exploring the relationships between consumer shop-around movements and money flows among shopping sites within a city center retail environment. As a result, the author and his coworkers uncovered the roles of many urban policies and facilities inexplicit so far by revealing how they contribute to the turnover of the whole town through stimulating Kaiyu. This gives a universal means of evaluation for urban development policy. Thus they have refreshed the scope of consumer shop-around studies from shop-around movements in the context of city planning, shopping marketing, and evaluation of urban revitalization policy, to town equity researches. This book presents step by step these conceptual developments by showing concrete research examples from their vast Kaiyu studies based on numerous empirical interview surveys at real retail environments.

Author : Mihoko Oka
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004463875

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The Namban Trade by Mihoko Oka Pdf

Winner of the prize "Fundação Oriente – Embaixador João de Deus Ramos" of the Academia de Marinha 2021 This book attempts to depict certain aspects of the Portuguese trade in East Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries by analyzing the activities of the merchants and Christian missionaries involved. It also discusses the response of the Japanese regime in handling the systemic changes that took place in the Asian seas. Consequently, it explains how Jesuit missionaries forged close ties with local merchants from the start of their activities in East Asian waters, and there is no doubt that the propagation of Christianity in Japan was a result of their cooperation. The author of this book attempted to combine the essence of previous studies by Japanese and western scholars and added several new findings from analyses of original Japanese and European language documents.

Author : Good News Player
Publisher : Good News Player
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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YAMATAI-koku HIMIKO SEQ 2 by Good News Player Pdf

In Series 1 "YAMATAI-koku HIMIKO (SEQ1)", we looked at the distributions of the Remains at "Medium-stream riverside of the HOMAN river, Japan" of Queen HIMIKO age. We talked that there are "Wold" village group and " Plateau" village group. Furthermore we talked that "IRAIJYAKU Remains" the representative of "Plateau" village group and an Enemy Watchtower at WA-koku TAIRAN age. We will look at the details of "IRAIJYAKU". There are seven hundreds houses in 70 years. "IRAIJYAKU" was the big village which had regularly one hundred houses, if the housese were rebuilt every ten years. Therefore the reading is hard work. But we will pick up only the major and characteristic relics. Seven "Forging Iron Wing-Flanged Axe" were excavated in "IRAIJYAKU". That Iron Axe was only one each local village of the FUKUOKA Plain of Japan. We will look at "IRAIJYAKU" as these characteristic relics as well as the Enemy Watchtower which we saw in "続1".

Author : Bruce L. Batten
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0824830296

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Gateway to Japan by Bruce L. Batten Pdf

A thousand years ago, most visitors to Japan would have arrived by ship at Hakata Bay, the one and only authorized gateway to Japan. Hakata was the location of the Kôrokan, an official guest-house for foreign visitors that is currently yielding its secrets to the spades of Japanese archaeologists. Nearby was Dazaifu, the imperial capital of western Japan, surrounded by mountain fortresses and defended by an army of border guards. Over the ages, Hakata was a staging ground for Japanese troops on their way to Korea and ground zero for foreign invasions of Japan. Through the port passed a rich variety of diplomats, immigrants, raiders, and traders, both Japanese and foreign. Gateway to Japan spotlights four categories of cross-cultural interaction—war, diplomacy, piracy, and trade—over a period of eight hundred years to gain insight into several larger questions about Japan and its place in the world: How and why did Hakata come to serve as the country’s "front door"? How did geography influence the development of state and society in the Japanese archipelago? Has Japan been historically open or closed to outside influence? Why are Japanese so profoundly ambivalent about other places and people? Individual chapters focus on Chinese expansionism and its consequences for Japan and East Asia as a whole; the subtle (and not-so-subtle) contradictions and obfuscations of the diplomatic process as seen in Japanese treatment of Korean envoys visiting Kyushu; random but sometimes devastating attacks on Kyushu by Korean (and sometimes Japanese) pirates; and foreign commerce in and around Hakata, which turns out to be neither fully "foreign" nor fully "commerce" in the modern sense of the word. The conclusion briefly traces the story forward into medieval and early modern times. Enriched by fascinating historical vignettes and dozens of maps and photographs, this engagingly written volume explores issues not only important for Japan’s early history but also highly pertinent to Japan’s role in the world today. Now, as in the period examined here, Japan has one principal entry point (the international airport at Narita); its relationship with the outside world (both East and West) is ambivalent; and, while sometimes astonishingly open-minded, Japanese are at other times frustratingly exclusive in their dealings with non-Japanese. Gateway to Japan will be of substantial interest to all students of Japan, East Asia, and intercultural studies.

Author : Zhu Shoutong
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443876414

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New Literature in Chinese by Zhu Shoutong Pdf

This book systematically discusses the academic connotations of the concept of “Modern Chinese Literature”, as well as its basic categories. The discipline founded upon this concept is influential both in China and throughout the world, and scholars engaged in teaching and research in this field number around ten thousand. The discipline was originally established in haste in an abnormal academic environment, and, with the passage of time, such derivative disciplines as “Contemporary Chinese Literature”, “20th Century Chinese Literature”, “the Literature of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau” and “World Chinese Literature” have appeared. This book argues that these fields should be united in the area of “New Literature in Chinese”, because they have a shared language, culture and tradition. In today’s multi-polar world, where Chinese literature is so diversified, such an approach is obviously helpful.

Author : Matt Alt,Hiroko Yoda,Melinda Joe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780470908266

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Frommer's? Japan Day by Day by Matt Alt,Hiroko Yoda,Melinda Joe Pdf

Folded, col. map in pocket on p. [3] of cover.

Author : Yosaburo Takekoshi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1626 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136523731

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The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan by Yosaburo Takekoshi Pdf

Originally published by Allen & Unwin in 1930 this 3-volume collection brings together writings on the economic aspects of Japan's history. Covering the period from the 1600s until the 1920s this work offers the reader, not only an economic history of the Japanese, but also a social and political history. By explaining the realities of daily life during the periods covered, this collection allows the economic aspects to be fully appreciated.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$C196199

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The Hallmark by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas D. Conlan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197677339

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Kings in All But Name by Thomas D. Conlan Pdf

Kings in All but Name illustrates how Japan was an ethnically diverse state from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, closely bound by trading ties to Korea and China. It reveals new archaeological and textual evidence proving that East Asia had integrated trading networks long before the arrival of European explorers and shows how mining techniques improved and propelled East Asian trade. The story of the Ouchi rulers contradicts the belief that this was a period of warfare and turmoil in Japan, and instead, proves that this was a stable and prosperous trading state where rituals, policies, politics, and economics were interwoven and diverse.

Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : UCSD:31822033789298

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Sailing Directions for Japan: Southern part; the Naikai and its entrances, namely, Kii Suido, Bungo Suido and Shimonoseki Kaikyo; Shikoku, Kyushu and its off-lying islands, the Nansei Shoto and Tsushima by United States. Hydrographic Office Pdf

Author : Yiwen Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009303118

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Networks of Faith and Profit by Yiwen Li Pdf

Between 839 and 1403 CE, there was a six-century lapse in diplomatic relations between present-day China and Japan. This hiatus in what is known as the tribute system has led to an assumption that there was little contact between the two countries in this period. Yiwen Li debunks this assumption, arguing instead that a vibrant Sino-Japanese trade network flourished in this period as Buddhist monks and merchants fostered connections across maritime East Asia. Based on a close examination of sources in multiple languages, including poems and letters, transmitted images and objects, and archaeological discoveries, Li presents a vivid and dynamic picture of the East Asian maritime world. She shows how this Buddhist trade network operated outside of the framework of the tribute system and, through novel interpretations of Buddhist records, provides a new understanding of the relationship between Buddhism and commerce.

Author : Polly E. Szatrowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270887

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Language and Food by Polly E. Szatrowski Pdf

This book investigates the intricate interplay between language and food in natural conversations among people eating and talking about food in English, Japanese, Wolof, Eegimaa, Danish, German, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. It is a socio-cultural/ linguistic study of how adults/ children organize their language and bodies to (1) accomplish rituals and performances of commensality (eating together) and food-related actions, (2) taste, describe, identify and assess food, and influence others’ preferences, (3) create and reinforce individual and group identities through past experiences and stories about food, and (4) socialize one another to food practices, affect, taste, gender and health norms. Using approaches from linguistics, conversation analysis, ethnography, discursive psychology, and linguistic anthropology, this book elucidates the dynamic verbal and nonverbal co-construction of food practices, assessments, categories, and identities in conversations over and about food, and contributes to research on contextualized social, cultural, and cognitive activity, language and food, and cross-cultural understanding.