Masao Yamamoto Small Things In Silence

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rm
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8417975012

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Masao Yamamoto: Small Things in Silence by Anonim Pdf

A new edition of Yamamoto's much-loved photographic homage to the precarious, the delicate and the humble, with new images and a redesigned cover Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto trained as an oil painter before discovering that photography was the ideal medium for the theme that most interested him--the ability of the image to evoke memories. Small Things in Silence surveys the 20-year career of one of Japan's most important photographers. Yamamoto's portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into small, delicate prints, which the photographer frequently overpaints, dyes or steeps in tea. Edited and sequenced by Yamamoto himself, this volume includes images from each of the photographer's major projects--Box of Ku, Nakazora, Kawa and Shizuka--as well as installation shots of some of Yamamoto's original photographic installations, and, in this new edition, seven new images and a new cover. In the words of Yamamoto himself: I try to capture moments that no one sees and make a photo from them. When I see them in print, a new story begins. Masao Yamamoto (born 1957) lives and works in Japan. He has published numerous books, including a previous edition of Small Things in Silence (RM/Seigensha, 2015) and Tori (Radius Books, 2016). His work is held in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the International Center of Photography, New York, and others.

Author : Masao Yamamoto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 1590052234

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Fujisan by Masao Yamamoto Pdf

Author : Masao Yamamoto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 1590050584

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Ōmizuao by Masao Yamamoto Pdf

Author : Susan H. Kamei
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 9781481401456

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When Can We Go Back to America? by Susan H. Kamei Pdf

"An oral history about Japanese internment during World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from the perspective of children and young people affected"--

Author : Masao Yamamoto,Arpaïs du Bois
Publisher : Lannoo Publishers (Acc)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drawing
ISBN : 9020957880

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Where We Met by Masao Yamamoto,Arpaïs du Bois Pdf

The 'purified' photos of a Japanese photographer and the drawings of a Belgian artist flow harmoniously together in this beautifully published book. Both the photos and the drawings capture the silence and fragility of existence, resulting in a combination that is pure poetry. Published as a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. Text in English, Japanese & French. AUTHOR: Photographer Yamamoto Masao (b. 1957) lives and works in Yamanishi, Japan. He has held exhibitions in New York, Boston, Beijing, Paris, Leipzig and Milan. His work is part of permanent collections in museums in the USA, France and Italy Artist Arpais du Bois (b.1973) draws and paints. She has exhibited her work in Antwerp, Ghent, Paris and Prague. With introductions by Dan Leers (The Museum of Modern Art, New York), Pauline Vermare (International Centre of Photography, New York) and Claire Gilman (The Drawing Centre, New York). SELLING POINTS: *A sublime combination of photographs by Yamamoto Masao and drawings by ARPAIS du bois ILLUSTRATIONS: 100 colour

Author : Richard Billingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Cradley Heath (England)
ISBN : 0954020022

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Black Country by Richard Billingham Pdf

Author : Hideo Kamei
Publisher : U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472038046

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Transformations of Sensibility by Hideo Kamei Pdf

First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies. Covering an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (1868–1912), it presents sophisticated analyses of the ways that experiments in literary language produced multiple new—and sometimes revolutionary—forms of sensibility and subjectivity. Along the way, Kamei Hideo carries on an extended debate with Western theorists such as Saussure, Bakhtin, and Lotman, as well as with such contemporary Japanese critics as Karatani Kojin and Noguchi Takehiko. Transformations of Sensibility deliberately challenges conventional wisdom about the rise of modern literature in Japan and offers highly original close readings of works by such writers as Futabatei Shimei, Tsubouchi Shoyo, Higuchi Ichiyo, and Izumi Kyoka, as well as writers previously ignored by most scholars. It also provides a new critical theorization of the relationship between language and sensibility, one that links the specificity of Meiji literature to broader concerns that transcend the field of Japanese literary studies. Available in English translation for the first time, it includes a new preface by the author and an introduction by the translation editor that explain the theoretical and historical contexts in which the work first appeared.

Author : Douglas Howland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137567772

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International Law and Japanese Sovereignty by Douglas Howland Pdf

How does a nation become a great power? A global order was emerging in the nineteenth century, one in which all nations were included. This book explores the multiple legal grounds of Meiji Japan's assertion of sovereign statehood within that order: natural law, treaty law, international administrative law, and the laws of war. Contrary to arguments that Japan was victimized by 'unequal' treaties, or that Japan was required to meet a 'standard of civilization' before it could participate in international society, Howland argues that the Westernizing Japanese state was a player from the start. In the midst of contradictions between law and imperialism, Japan expressed state will and legal acumen as an equal of the Western powers – international incidents in Japanese waters, disputes with foreign powers on Japanese territory, and the prosecution of interstate war. As a member of international administrative unions, Japan worked with fellow members to manage technical systems such as the telegraph and the post. As a member of organizations such as the International Law Association and as a leader at the Hague Peace Conferences, Japan helped to expand international law. By 1907, Japan was the first non-western state to join the ranks of the great powers.

Author : Robert Aitken
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466895249

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The Mind of Clover by Robert Aitken Pdf

In Taking the Path of Zen, Robert Aitken provided a concise guide to zazen (Zen meditation) and other aspects of the practice of Zen. In The Mind of Clover he addresses the world beyond the zazen cushions, illuminating issues of appropriate personal and social action through an exploration of the philosophical complexities of Zen ethics. Aitken's approach is clear and sure as he shows how our minds can be as nurturing as clover, which enriches the soil and benefits the environment as it grows. The opening chapters discuss the Ten Grave Precepts of Zen, which, Aitken points out, are "not commandments etched in stone but expressions of inspiration written in something more fluid than water." Aitken approaches these precepts, the core of Zen ethics, from several perspectives, offering many layers of interpretation. Like ripples in a pond, the circles of his interpretation increasingly widen, and he expands his focus to confront corporate theft and oppression, the role of women in Zen and society, abortion, nuclear war, pollution of the environment, and other concerns. The Mind of Clover champions the cause of personal responsibility in modern society, encouraging nonviolent activism based on clear convictions. It is a guide that engages, that invites us to realize our own potential for confident and responsible action.

Author : Steve Antinoff
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781619028821

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Reports from the Zen Wars by Steve Antinoff Pdf

Four decades ago—aged twenty—the author experienced what he calls a "negative satori," a fundamental and irrefutable realization not of enlightenment, but of himself as a predicament only enlightenment could resolve. This, shaped by the hammer blows of a singular American professor, Richard DeMartino, brought him to Zen, and to Japan. Yet over time, of far greater import than his bungling efforts were the wonderful occupants of the Zen world he encountered: Toyoshima–san, the meditation Prometheus whose superhuman efforts astounded and inspired all while he remained impaled on the cliff's edge; the Thief, chief monastery monk who stole the world from whoever he encountered and whose yawns and the brushing of his teeth shot sparks of Absolute Meaning; Hisamatsu, the great lay Zen Master who at age 16 overheard a doctor tell his mother he'd be dead in six months, only to awaken ten years later and become the most delighted man in Japan; Bunko, the monk kind to others but ferocious with himself, whose daily state of Oneness in meditation left him dissatisfied because despite all exertion he could not crush it to pieces and break beyond it. These are among the sitters for the portraits in Reports From the Zen Wars, Steve Antinoff's attempt to bear witness to what for him has been The Greatest Show on Earth, price of admission one lotus position.

Author : Hedi Slimane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fashion photography
ISBN : 3037642238

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FR by Hedi Slimane Pdf

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834828797

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Nine-Headed Dragon River by Peter Matthiessen Pdf

In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway—guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk. Written in the same format as his best-selling The Snow Leopard, Nine-Headed Dragon River reveals Matthiessen's most daring adventure of all: the quest for his spiritual roots.

Author : Paula Arai
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824860134

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Bringing Zen Home by Paula Arai Pdf

Healing lies at the heart of Zen in the home, as Paula Arai discovered in her pioneering research on the ritual lives of Zen Buddhist laywomen. She reveals a vital stream of religious practice that flourishes outside the bounds of formal institutions through sacred rites that women develop and transmit to one another. Everyday objects and common materials are used in inventive ways. For example, polishing cloths, vivified by prayer and mantra recitation, become potent tools. The creation of beauty through the arts of tea ceremony, calligraphy, poetry, and flower arrangement become rites of healing. Bringing Zen Home brings a fresh perspective to Zen scholarship by uncovering a previously unrecognized but nonetheless vibrant strand of lay practice. The creativity of domestic Zen is evident in the ritual activities that women fashion, weaving tradition and innovation, to gain a sense of wholeness and balance in the midst of illness, loss, and anguish. Their rituals include chanting, ingesting elixirs and consecrated substances, and contemplative approaches that elevate cleaning, cooking, child-rearing, and caring for the sick and dying into spiritual disciplines. Creating beauty is central to domestic Zen and figures prominently in Arai’s analyses. She also discovers a novel application of the concept of Buddha nature as the women honor deceased loved ones as “personal Buddhas.” One of the hallmarks of the study is its longitudinal nature, spanning fourteen years of fieldwork. Arai developed a “second-person,” or relational, approach to ethnographic research prompted by recent trends in psychobiology. This allowed her to cultivate relationships of trust and mutual vulnerability over many years to inquire into not only the practices but also their ongoing and changing roles. The women in her study entrusted her with their life stories, personal reflections, and religious insights, yielding an ethnography rich in descriptive and narrative detail as well as nuanced explorations of the experiential dimensions and effects of rituals. In Bringing Zen Home, the first study of the ritual lives of Zen laywomen, Arai applies a cutting-edge ethnographic method to reveal a thriving domain of religious practice. Her work represents an important contribution on a number of fronts—to Zen studies, ritual studies, scholarship on women and religion, and the cross-cultural study of healing.

Author : Angela Faris Belt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781136103254

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The Elements of Photography by Angela Faris Belt Pdf

Photography is a complex craft. Some excel at the technical side of image-making, focusing perfectly on the subject, releasing the shutter at just the right moment and making exposures with the precise amount of light. Others are artists and storytellers, capturing a fleeting moment in time which inspires a viewer to gaze upon an image and ponder its meaning. The best photographers are masters of both. In this highly visual, informative new book, Angela Faris Belt discusses the four crucial elements of photography that are essential for successful technical and conceptual image-making: .the photographic frame and its borders .quality of focus as determined by the aperture or lens .shutter speeds and their effects in relation to time and motion .the physical media used to create the aggregate image Step-by-step guidance including informative screen shots, traditional darkroom and Photoshop techniques, suggested exercises, and before and after images help both film and digital photographers improve their skills, learn new techniques, and better understand their craft. More than 300 stunning, full color images and portfolios featuring the work of over 40 prestigious artists provide visual inspiration as well as a gorgeous collection of artwork for photography enthusiasts.

Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935744122

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Mandarins by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Pdf

Prefiguring the vital modernist voices of the Western literary canon, Akutagawa writes with a trenchant psychological precision that exposes the shifting traditions and ironies of early twentieth-century Japan and reveals his own strained connection to it. These stories are moving glimpses into a cast of characters at odds with the society around them, singular portraits that soar effortlessly toward the universal. "What good is intelligence if you cannot discover a useful melancholy?" Akutagawa once mused. Both piercing intelligence and "useful melancholy" buoy this remarkable collection. Mandarins contains three stories published in English for the first time: "An Evening Conversation," "An Enlightened Husband," and "Winter."