Masako S Story

Author : Kikuko Otake
Publisher : Author House
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781463443368

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Masako's Story by Kikuko Otake Pdf

On August 6, 1945, when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the Furuta family was living one mile away from the hypocenter. Five year old Kikuko, her mother, Masako, and her two brothers barely escaped with their lives. However, their soldier father was not so fortunate. Masako never talked about her family's experiences on that day and the grim days following the bombing. Then one day, Masako started to talk about what happenedbreaking a silence of nearly fifty years. Written by Kikuko (Furuta) Otake, now a retired assistant professor of Japanese in the United States, Masako's story is a collection of prose-poetry, based on the true story of her family's tragedy. It is written with an "Objectivist" lineation similar in its understated power to Charles Reznikoff's Testimony. Kikuko Otake's Masako's Story is a powerful addition to the literature of the Atomic Bomb, and yet more evidence that we should all work together to stop the Nuclear madness.

Author : Masako Watanabe
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Emaki Jōruri (Scrolls)
ISBN : 9781588394408

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Storytelling in Japanese Art by Masako Watanabe Pdf

Presents 17 classic Japanese stories as told through 30 illustrated handscrolls ranging from the 13th to 19th centuries.

Author : Ben Hills
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101216101

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Princess Masako by Ben Hills Pdf

The tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess-with a new afterword by the author. It's the fantasy of many young women: marry a handsome prince, move into a luxurious palace, and live happily ever after. But that's not how it turned out for Masako Owada. Ben Hills's fascinating portrait of Princess Masako and the Chrysanthemum Throne draws on research in Tokyo and rural Japan, at Oxford and Harvard, and from more than sixty interviews with Japanese, American, British, and Australian sources-many of whom have never spoken publicly before-shedding light on the royal family's darkest secrets, secrets that can never be openly discussed in Japan because of the reverence in which the emperor and his family are held. But most of all, this is a story about a love affair that went tragically wrong. The paperback edition will contain a new afterword by the author, discussing the impact this book had in Japan, where it was banned.

Author : Masako Togawa
Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782274100

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The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa Pdf

A dizzying tale of lust, mystery, and murder—from a beloved Japanese crime fiction author and LGBT icon The Lady Killer leads a double life in Tokyo's shadowy underworld. By day, he is a devoted husband and hard worker; by night, he cruises cabaret bars and nightclubs in search of lonely single women to seduce. But now the hunter is being hunted, and in his wake lies a trail of gruesome murders. Who is the culprit? The answer lies tangled in a web of clues—and to find it, he must accept that nothing is what it seems. The Lady Killer pulls from author Masako Togawa’s vibrant personal life as a cabaret performer for Tokyo’s gay nightclub scene during the ‘50s and ‘60s. Throughout her writing career, Togawa continued to champion the LGBT community as a queer woman—sealing her reputation as one of Japan’s most prominent crime fiction authors and LGBT heroines.

Author : Masako Matsuno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948959828

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A Pair of Red Clogs by Masako Matsuno Pdf

A child's delight in a new pair of shoes is the same all over the world, whether the shoes are patent-leather sandals, straw alpargatas, deerskin moccasins, or wooden clogs. For Mako, a little Japanese girl, the new shoes were clogs painted with red lacquer that shone beautifully. This is the story of what happened after she cracked the new clogs playing the weather-telling game and so longed for a bright, shiny new pair to replace them that she almost did a dishonest thing. The warmth and quiet understanding of the grandmother who, remembering her own temptations as a little girl, recalls this story for her granddaughter, makes A Pair of Red Clogs especially moving. Kazue Mizumura's charming illustrations are as delicate and graceful as the story itself.

Author : Masako Itō
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0742554643

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I'm Married to Your Company! by Masako Itō Pdf

This approachable and absorbing book offers a unique window into Japanese culture and language. Highlighting the overlooked world of the "silent majority," the housewives and mothers who are the mainstay of Japanese society, this work tells the stories of ordinary women in their own voices. An annotated translation of a Japanese bestseller, the volume explores the daily communication of Japanese women and what their words tell us about their relationships and lives in a globalized, post-industrial, yet still often male-dominated Japan. Readers will find that many issues explored here are universal to women everywhere, while others are specific to Japan. With added cultural context and commentary, the book offers a fresh understanding of Japanese society, even for those who have had little exposure to Japan. Students in diverse fields, ranging from anthropology to women's studies and from communications to Asian studies, will find this an insightful and provocative work.

Author : Masako Togawa
Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782277729

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The Master Key by Masako Togawa Pdf

A new edition of this prizewinning classic mystery from one of Japan's best-loved crime writers A building full of secrets. A key that will unleash them all... The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo conceals a sinister past behind each door; a woman who has buried a child; a scavenger driven mad by ill-health; a wife mysteriously guarding her late husband's manuscripts; a talented violinist tortured by her own guilt. The master key, which opens the door to all 150 rooms, links their tangled stories. But now it has been stolen, and dirty tricks are afoot. For a deadly secret lies buried beneath the building. And when it is revealed, there will be murder.

Author : Masako Fukawa,Stanley Fukawa
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124187555

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Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet by Masako Fukawa,Stanley Fukawa Pdf

An impeccably researched history of Japanese Canadians--their stuggles and triumphs--complete with photographs and detailed biographies.

Author : Sretan Trajkov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798521977420

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Masako by Sretan Trajkov Pdf

One day, Masako resolved to choose the course of her life by herself. She fell in love with a political prisoner named Yoritomo Minamoto and decided to marry him despite the opposition of her father, who lived in the rural area of Japan as a strong mononofu (armed warrior) in the late 12th century. A few years later, Yoritomo started his uprisings to avenge his father and establish perpetual peace by uniting all mononofu. With her strength and love, Masako struggled hard in her life to change her beloved Yoritomo into the real prince for her, to protect her children, and to save the innovative institutions established by Yoritomo after his death... This is an extraordinary story about the turbulent life of the only woman who was called "shogun" in the long history of Japan.

Author : Masako Togawa
Publisher : Dodd Mead
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0396092608

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A Kiss of Fire by Masako Togawa Pdf

Author : Chieko Irie Mulhern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317468684

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Heroic with Grace by Chieko Irie Mulhern Pdf

This work presents the lives and times of eight prominent Japanese women who epitomize the tragedies and triumphs of eight characteristically female roles. In examining the lives of the mythological Empress Jingu, Jito Tenno (645-702), Murasaki Shikibu (970s-1000s), Tomoe Gozen (12th century), Hojo Masako (1157-1225), Hani Motoko (1873-1957), Takamine Hideko (b.1924) and Ariyoshi Sawako (1931-1984), the contributors provide a mosaic of Japanese history and culture that encompasses issues of women's status in various stages of Japanese history, the social climate conducive to positive female roles, the concept of Japanese womanhood in relation to the male hero types of each age and the popular need for strong female figures.

Author : Summer Institute in Linguistics,Kokusai Kirisutokyō Daigaku. Summer Institute in Linguistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UVA:X001039152

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Descriptive and Applied Linguistics by Summer Institute in Linguistics,Kokusai Kirisutokyō Daigaku. Summer Institute in Linguistics Pdf

Author : Pamela Hickman,Masako Fukawa
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781552778531

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Righting Canada's Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War by Pamela Hickman,Masako Fukawa Pdf

During the Second World War, over 20,000 Japanese Canadians had their civil rights, homes, possessions, and freedom taken away. This visual-packed book tells the story.

Author : Juergen Teller,Nobuyoshi Araki
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3958297455

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Nobuyoshi Araki and Juergen Teller: Leben und Tod by Juergen Teller,Nobuyoshi Araki Pdf

Two legendary photographers meditate on death, memory and ritual The latest collaboration between these two seminal photographers, Leben und Todis the culmination of their joint exhibition at artspace AM, Tokyo, in 2019. This intensely personal project concentrates on Juergen Teller's (born 1964) series Leben und Tod(Life and Death), which reflects upon the death of his uncle and stepfather Artur, juxtaposing photographs of his mother and homeland in Bubenreuth, Bavaria, with symbolic images of fertility and life on holiday in Bhutan with his partner Dovile Drizyte. Inspired by this series, Nobuyoshi Araki (born 1940) asked to photograph Teller's "childhood memory objects," items of particular emotional significance to him and his parents. Teller eagerly collected such personal gems, among them toys, a porcelain figurine and bridges made in the family's violin workshop; the resulting images by Araki are haunting yet playful, creating an intriguing narrative alongside the original story.

Author : Christina Faull,Sharon de Caestecker,Alex Nicholson,Fraser Black
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118426814

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Handbook of Palliative Care by Christina Faull,Sharon de Caestecker,Alex Nicholson,Fraser Black Pdf

This handbook offers a practical, thorough approach to the clinical practice of palliative care. Adding North American authors to its roster of UK contributors, the third edition of this award-winning book addresses important changes in the evidence base of palliative care, as well as an emphasis on end-of-life community-based care. It features new chapters on dementia and advance care planning, a simplified lymphoedema discussion, and an ongoing commitment to providing essential guidance for physicians, nurses, and all primary care providers involved in palliative care in hospital, hospice, and community settings.