In Japanese, the word for "foreign country" means literally "outnation". But to many American and Japanese, it is Japan itself that, despite its rising influence in world affairs, is the outsider - "The Outnation". In this rigourous and searching journey through Japan's islands and institutions, Richard Rauch finds that today's Japan is strikingly and often surprisingly familiar. Economically it's similar to America in the days of the great cartels and company towns, with a high-tech update. Pol...
"No one can deny the gratifying taste of creamy broth, hearty noodles, salt, soy sauce, and miso, but making rame from scratch is no small feat. Ramen connoisseur Brian MacDuckston has spent years traveling through Japan tasting bowl after bowl of ramen and studies at the Osaka Ramen School. In these pages, he removes all the hurdles--including time, complicated recipes, and hard-to-find ingredients--to bring this Japanese favorite to your home. Adapting classic Japanese bowls for the American t...
Maido (my-dough, not to be confused with that childhood favorite, Play-Doh) describes the most common Japanese gestures and defines their meanings and the cultural contexts that surround them. Japanese gestures are a world of their own, much the way the language and country are. In the Kansai region of Japan, people often use the term Maido as a greeting in business and sales, and as a send-off to a business’s best customers as if to say, “come again” or “thank you.” In this case, Maido is welco...
Gain inspiration and new gardening ideas with this elegant and beautifully photographed Japanese gardening book. Japanese garden design, know to the West primarily in its traditional form, has undergone striking developments over the last decade. Leading landscape designers such as Shunmyo Masuno, Masatoshi Takebe, Atsuchi Akenuki, and Yasujirou Aoki, as well as architects such as Kengo Kuma, Kan Izue, and Kisho Kurokawa, have been experimenting more and more with the form, style, and content...
Translation of Dictionnaire d'histoire et de geographie du Japon.
Japan Day by Day, 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
by Edward Sylvester Morse
Outdoor Photography of Japan (Outdoor Photography of Japan, #1)
by Daniel H Wieczorek
