Tabibito The Traveller

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814338004

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Tabibito (The Traveller) by Anonim Pdf

This is Yukawa's autobiography of his early years, written in Japanese when he was fifty years old. It describes his family background and the education and experience, both social and intellectual, that helped to form his character and direct his career. Especially valuable to the historian of science are his discussions of scientific relationships with his colleague Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, with his teacher Yoshio Nishina, and with his students (who later became his collaborators): Sakata, Taketani, and Kobayashi. The Story ends with the writing of his first scientific paper in English, being the birth of the meson theory of nuclear forces.Also included are the original paper of the meson theory by Prof H Yukawa and an introduction by Prof L M Brown.

Author : Kenneth P. Kirkwood
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462912094

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Renaissance in Japan by Kenneth P. Kirkwood Pdf

Renaissance in Japan is a superb survey of Japan's literary giants—forerunners of today's modern Japanese writers. Called the "Kyoto epoch," the age in which these writers lived was the period in which Japanese cultural development made many of its greatest advances. In these years of the early Tokugawa era, the old aristocratic culture was confronted with the new plebeian awakening, giving rise to dynamic social developments, in effect a peaceful revolution. The humanistic movement that emerged during this period is epitomized in and popular arts and letters by such famous figures as Basho, the pilgrim poet; Saikaku, novelist of the gilded age, and Chikamatsu, Japan's greatest playwright. In that stirring period Basho wrote such undying poetry as: "The lark sings through the long spring day, but never enough for its heart's content." Saikaku noted that "love is darkness, but in the land of love the darkest night is bright as noon." Chikamatsu wrote wisely that "art is something which lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal." In Japan it was the beginning of the end of the feudal Dark Ages—even though the political ramifications would not be manifest until the advent of the Meiji Restoration.

Author : Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck,Marlene R. Edelstein
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8772892684

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Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century by Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck,Marlene R. Edelstein Pdf

It was not until Kawabata Yasunari won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature that the average Western reader became aware of contemporary Japanese literature. A few translations of writings by Japanese women have appeared lately, yet the West remains largely ignorant of this wide field. In this book Sachiko Schierbeck profiles the 104 female winners of prestigious literary prizes in Japan since the beginning of the century. It contains summaries of their selected works, and a bibliography of works translated into Western languages from 1900 to 1993. These works give insight into the minds and hearts of Japanese women and draw a truer picture of the conditions of Japanese community life than any sociological study would present. Schierbeck's 104 biographies constitute a useful reference work not only to students of literature but to anyone with an interest in women's studies, history or sociology.

Author : Michael Creutz
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814571302

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Quantum Fields On The Computer by Michael Creutz Pdf

This book provides an overview of recent progress in computer simulations of nonperturbative phenomena in quantum field theory, particularly in the context of the lattice approach. It is a collection of extensive self-contained reviews of various subtopics, including algorithms, spectroscopy, finite temperature physics, Yukawa and chiral theories, bounds on the Higgs meson mass, the renormalization group, and weak decays of hadrons.Physicists with some knowledge of lattice gauge ideas will find this book a useful and interesting source of information on the recent developments in the field.

Author : Ioan James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521017068

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Remarkable Physicists by Ioan James Pdf

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Author : S. S. Schweber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691213286

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QED and the Men Who Made It by S. S. Schweber Pdf

In the 1930s, physics was in a crisis. There appeared to be no way to reconcile the new theory of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity. Several approaches had been tried and had failed. In the post-World War II period, four eminent physicists rose to the challenge and developed a calculable version of quantum electrodynamics (QED), probably the most successful theory in physics. This formulation of QED was pioneered by Freeman Dyson, Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, three of whom won the Nobel Prize for their work. In this book, physicist and historian Silvan Schweber tells the story of these four physicists, blending discussions of their scientific work with fascinating biographical sketches. Setting the achievements of these four men in context, Schweber begins with an account of the early work done by physicists such as Dirac and Jordan, and describes the gathering of eminent theorists at Shelter Island in 1947, the meeting that heralded the new era of QED. The rest of his narrative comprises individual biographies of the four physicists, discussions of their major contributions, and the story of the scientific community in which they worked. Throughout, Schweber draws on his technical expertise to offer a lively and lucid explanation of how this theory was finally established as the appropriate way to describe the atomic and subatomic realms.

Author : Hosea Hirata
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400863488

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The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo by Hosea Hirata Pdf

This book offers an in-depth investigation into the writings of one of modern Japan's most gifted poet-scholars, Nishiwaki Junzaburo (1894-1982), who has been compared to T. S. Eliot, R. M. Rilke, and Paul Valéry. Exploring both his poetry and theoretical writings, Hosea Hirata describes how Nishiwaki, who wrote his first poems in English and French, shaped a highly influential poetic modernism in Japan while elevating the artistic status of translation. This volume includes Nishiwaki's highly original essays on the nature of poetry, his first two collections of Japanese poems, and a poem meditating on the annihilation of symbolism. The author maintains that in Japan the language of modernism was that of translation. When Nishiwaki finally began to write poems in Japanese, a new poetic language was born in his country: a translatory language. Hirata elaborates this birth of new poetry via translation by referring to the theories of translation and of différance articulated by Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida. The author reconsiders the view that translated texts are secondary to the originals, where the truth supposedly resides; instead he presents translation as an essential textual movement, écriture, toward the paradise of pure language and Poetry. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Alexander James Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351349499

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Anti-nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo by Alexander James Brown Pdf

This book explores the politics of anti-nuclear activism in Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. Analyzing the protests in the context of a longer history of citizen activism in Tokyo, it also situates the movement within the framework of a global struggle for democracy, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. By examining the anti-nuclear movement at both urban and transnational scales, the book also reveals the complex geography of today’s globally connected social movements. It emphasizes the contestation of urban space by anti-nuclear activists in Tokyo and the weaving together of urban and cyber space in their praxis. By focusing on the cultural life of the movement—from its characteristic demonstration style to its blogs, zines and pamphlets—this book communicates activists’ voices in their own words. Based on excellent ethnographic research, it concludes that the anti-nuclear protests in Tokyo after the Fukushima disaster have redefined social movement politics for a new era. Providing an analysis of a unique period in Japan’s contemporary urban history from the perspective of eyewitness observations, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese Politics, Sociology and Japanese Studies in general.

Author : Kenneth Porter Kirkwood
Publisher : Rutland, Vt : C. E. Tuttle Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008167218

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Renaissance in Japan by Kenneth Porter Kirkwood Pdf

Author : Yataro Sekido,Harry Elliot
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400954342

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Early History of Cosmic Ray Studies by Yataro Sekido,Harry Elliot Pdf

On the occasion of the International Conference on Cosmic Rays held in Kyoto in August 1979 five aged members of the cosmic ray fraternity, H. Elliot, V. L. Ginzburg, B. Peters, Y. Sekido, and J. A. Simpson met together as a dinner party devoted to the enjoyment of Japanese cuisine and reminiscences of our younger days. This pleasant occasion called to of our own age as well as some eminent seniors not present at the mind the many friends conference whose recollections would have further enriched and enlivened our evening. By the time the dinner came to an end we had agreed that the compilation of a more extensive collection of personal reminiscences would be an interesting and worthwhile undertaking. Accordingly, the next day we held an editorial meeting to draw up a list of potential authors and two of us, the present editors, started work on the project. In putting the book together our intention has been to try to capture and record through these personal accounts something of the atmosphere, the excitement and the frustrations of research in cosmic rays as experienced at first hand by some of the practi tioners in the field. It has never been our intention that it should comprise a systematic history of the subject. Neither, unfortunately, can it be a fully representative collection since practical limits to the size of the volume alone would preclude that.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Japan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002425572

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Cultural Nippon ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011716078

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Historia Scientiarum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gitte Marianne Hansen,Michael Tsang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429594915

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Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage by Gitte Marianne Hansen,Michael Tsang Pdf

This book is a timely and expansive volume on Murakami Haruki, arguably Japan's most high-profile contemporary writer. With contributions from prominent Murakami scholars, this book approaches the works of Murakami Haruki through interdisciplinary perspectives, discussing their significance and value through the lenses of history; geography; politics; gender and sexuality; translation; and literary influence and circulation. Together the chapters provide a multifaceted assessment on Murakami’s literary oeuvre in the last four decades, vouching for its continuous importance in understanding the world and Japan in contemporary times. The book also features exclusive material that includes the cultural critic Katō Norihiro’s final work on Murakami – his chapter here is one of the few works ever translated into English – to interviews with Murakami and discussions from his translators and editors, shedding light not only on Murakami’s works as literature but as products of cross-cultural exchanges. Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of Japanese studies, comparative and world literature, cultural studies, and beyond.

Author : Bruce Baird,Rosemary Candelario
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781315536118

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The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance by Bruce Baird,Rosemary Candelario Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance provides a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the global art form butoh. Originating in Japan in the 1960s, butoh was a major innovation in twentieth century dance and performance, and it continues to shape-shift around the world. Taking inspiration from the Japanese avant-garde, Surrealism, Happenings, and authors such as Genet and Artaud, its influence can be seen throughout contemporary performing arts, music, and visual art practices. This Companion places the form in historical context, documents its development in Japan and its spread around the world, and brings together the theory and the practice of this compelling dance. The interdisciplinarity evident in the volume reflects the depth and the breadth of butoh, and the editors bring specially commissioned essays by leading scholars and dancers together with translations of important early texts.

Author : Toshiharu Oseko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Haiku
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019409957

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Bashō No Haiku by Toshiharu Oseko Pdf