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Table of Contents: “…Dramatis personae -- To cut a foreigner -- A mortal enemy -- Courage -- Fidelity -- Heaven's revenge -- The remnants of shock -- A truly despicable world -- A soul-encompassing dread -- The code -- The execution grounds -- Cutting test -- A natural and overwhelming desire -- Discipline -- Serene as the sky, and open as the sea -- Disgrace -- An evil woman -- Tales of a renaissance samurai -- Anecdotes, yarns and other vignettes -- A brief historical background of the meiji restoration -- Family crests and symbols.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Disaster in Kyoto: Kyoto, 1160 CE -- Headless ghosts: Kurama, 1160-1174 CE -- Samurai boot camp: Hiraizumi, 1174- 1180 CE -- Brothers-in-arms: Kamakura, 1180-1184 CE -- Perilous river: Kyoto, 1184 CE -- Midnight strike: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184 CE -- Hooves like hailstones: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184 CE -- Into the storm: Kyoto, Shikoku, and Yashima, 1184-1185 CE -- The dropped bow: Yashima, 1185 CE -- The drowned sword: Dan-no-Ura, 1185 CE -- Assassins in the dark: Dan-no-Ura, Kyoto, and Koshigoe, 1185 CE -- Shizuka's song: Kyoto, Kamakura, and the Yoshino Mountains, 1185-1186 CE -- The fugitive: locations unknown, 1185-1187 CE -- Feast of arrows: Hiraizumi, 1187-1189 CE -- Epilogue: the Samurai weeps.…”
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Subjects: “…Samurai -- Korea.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Origins in Violence. 2. The Coming of the Samurai: Violence and Culture in the Ancient World. 3. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Samurai daughter -- The war of the Year of the Dragon -- "A little leaven" -- "An expedition of practical observers" -- "Interesting strangers" -- Finding families -- Growing up American -- At Vassar -- The journey "home" -- Two weddings -- Getting along alone -- Alice in Tokyo -- Advances and retreats -- The Women's Home School of English -- Endings.…”

Table of Contents: “…Disaster in Kyoto: Kyoto, 1160 CE -- Headless ghosts: Kurama, 1160-1174 CE -- Samurai boot camp: Hiraizumi, 1174-1180 CE -- Brothers-in-arms: Kamakura, 1180-1184 CE -- Perilous river: Kyoto, 1184 CE -- Midnight strike: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184 CE -- Hooves like hailstones: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184 CE -- Into the storm: Kyoto, Shikoku, and Yashima, 1184-1185 CE -- The dropped bow: Yashima, 1185 CE -- The drowned sword: Dan-no-Ura, 1185 CE -- Assassins in the dark: Dan-no-Ura, Kyoto, and Koshigoe, 1185 CE -- Shizuka's song: Kyoto, Kamakura, and the Yoshino Mountains, 1185-1186 CE -- The fugitive: locations unknown, 1185-1187 CE -- Feast of arrows: Hiraizumi, 1187-1189 CE -- Epilogue: the Samurai weeps.…”

Subjects: “…Samurai films -- History and criticism…”

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Table of Contents: “…The unknown : The storm ; The samurai of Bird Island -- pt. II. The barbarians : The John Howland ; The hunt ; Oil ; Disappointment ; Ship life ; The invitation ; Seven breaths ; Dancer! …”

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Table of Contents: “…Flake -- One voice: a something in-between story / by Melissa de la Cruz -- Paladin/Samurai / by Gene Luen Yang, with illustrations by Thien Pham -- Catch, pull, drive / by Schuyler Bailar -- Super human / by Nicola Yoon.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Practicing dying : the Samurai-Zen death techniques of Suzuki Shōsan /…”
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Table of Contents: “…Diasporic literature and identity : autobiography and the i-novel in Estu Sugiomoto's daughter of the Samurai /…”

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Table of Contents: “…Mishima Yukio: The Modern Novelist Inspired by the Samurai Tradition.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Ryoma ; Mere anarchy : the nihilist period of film ; Celluloid samurai : the protest film in disguise ; The samurai film without samurai ; From Chambara to Yakuza -- Part 3 : The Second World War and its aftermath. …”

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Legacies of the samurai -- pt. 2. Marginal men -- pt. 3. Bodies and boundaries.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Map- Japan before 1868 -- Round eyes in Japan -- Two young rulers in samurai days -- A government built to last -- A closed world -- The gates forced open -- A rich nation, a strong army -- Japan, a power in the Far East -- The return of the samurai -- Map- the Japanese empire during World War II -- A world at war -- Counterattack -- Rebuilding a nation -- Japan, a world power.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Pacific Age -- Dreams of Fortune -- The Path to the Dark Side -- Sorrowful Days -- Yankee Samurai -- The Wheels of Justice -- Remembering the Past.…”

Table of Contents: “…Shipwrecked -- Marooned -- Isolated empire -- Rescued -- Whaling ship -- Honolulu -- Japanese New Englander -- Crazed Captain -- Digging for gold -- Arrested -- Imprisoned -- Home at last -- Honored Samurai -- Author's note -- About the illustrations -- About the author.…”

Table of Contents: “…Samurai and squint-eyed barbarians -- Emperor and army -- The end of the samurai -- The nation in arms -- A modern army emerges -- Line of advantage: The first Sino-Japanese War -- The Russian menace -- War with Russia -- The army under attack -- Falling back: The Great War -- Rethinking war -- The great divide -- Counterattack -- The hard chief and the visionary -- Turning sour in Shanghai -- The Officer Corps divides -- The spur to action -- The February 26 revolt -- To the threshold of power -- Marco Polo Bridge -- To the gates of Nanking -- A carnival of death -- On to Hankow -- Plunder and narcotics -- At war with Mao -- The price of war -- Salvation in the South -- Facing reality -- A time for leadership -- "Firecracker attack": The hundred days -- "Beneath the skin": The Japanese fighting man -- "Faith is strength": Fighting spirit -- "Gangsters, catburglars and poachers": The philosophy of the attack -- "Do your best and leave the rest to providence": The senior commanders -- "My sword is my soul": Weapons -- The missing link: Air power -- Staying alive: Logistics -- Hidden asset: Military intelligence -- "Advancing to the rear": The defensive -- "The Pacific is also big": Japan's long decline -- "The world's worst country": Imphal -- "Powerful enemies": Weaknesses in the Imperial Army -- "Desperate and crazy to die": Last stands -- Death march: The road to surrender -- Aftermath -- "Longstanding regrettable practices": Atrocities and their origins -- Facing the past.…”

Table of Contents: “…The early years -- The advent and assimilation of Chinese civilization -- The Heian period: the age of court aristocracy -- The Kamakura period: the triumph of the Samurai -- The Ashikaga period: the emergence of the Daimyō -- The restoration of order -- The early Tokugawa period -- Intellectual and cultural developments in Tokugawa Japan -- The late Tokugawa period -- The fall of the Tokugawa Bakufu.…”

Table of Contents: “…Tokugawa polity -- Social and economic transformations -- Intellectual world of late Tokugawa -- Overthrow of the Tokugawa -- Modern Revolution, 1868-1905. Samurai revolution -- Participation and protest -- Social, economic, and cultural transformations -- Empire and domestic order -- Imperial Japan from ascendance to ashes. …”

Table of Contents: “…Short history of manga and anime -- Manga and anime vocabulary -- Culture clash : East meets West -- Adventures with ninjas and schoolgirls : humor and realism -- Samurai and shogun : action, war, and historical fiction -- Giant robots and nature spirits : science fiction, fantasy, and legends -- Understanding fans and fan culture -- Draw in a crowd : promotion and programs -- Collection development.…”

Table of Contents: “…Earrings of Madame de ... (1953) -- Golden coach (1953) -- Smiles of a summer night (1955) -- La grande illusion (1937) -- Forbidden games (1952) -- Shoeshine (1947) -- Beggar's opera (1953) -- Seven samurai (1954).…”

Table of Contents: “…The birth of Japan: the neolithic Jōmon and the protohistoric Yayoi and Kofun periods -- Imperial models: the impact of China and Buddhism on Japan -- Capital of peace and tranquility: the Heian period and the coming of age of a native aesthetic -- Changing of the guard: the rise of the samurai and the twilight of the imperial order -- Splendor regained: the creative revolution of the Momoyama and early Edo periods -- Pax Tokugawa: closed borders, official orthodoxy, and the inexorable rise of popular culture in the Edo period -- Forging a new identity: the Meiji restoration and Japan's entry into the modern world.…”

Table of Contents: “…Tightening Control. 8. Villager-Samurai Tensions. 9. Reform, Innovation, and Centralization -- 10. …”

Table of Contents: “…1: I refuse -- Education of a Meiji Samurai -- Budding civil servant -- Birth of a writer -- Justification of self and of nation -- Out into the world -- 2: The pact with God -- With Luther presiding -- The taught -- The teaching: Christianity and the Bible -- The teaching: institutions and individuals -- The last chance -- 3: I am not -- Christ is coming -- The Bible and Japan -- The sage -- Telling off the West -- Maturing vipers -- What is Mukyôkai? …”

Table of Contents: “…Tokugawa polity -- Social and economic transformations -- Intellectual world of late Tokugawa -- Overthrow of the Tokugawa -- Modern Revolution, 1868-1905. Samurai revolution -- Participation and protest -- Social, economic, and cultural transformations -- Empire and domestic order -- Imperial Japan from ascendance to ashes. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The Tokugawa polity ; Social and economic transformations ; The intellectual world of late Tokugawa ; The overthrow of the Tokugawa -- Modern revolution, 1868-1905. The Samurai revolution ; Participation and protest ; Social, economic, and cultural transformations ; Empire and domestic order -- Imperial Japan from ascendance to ashes. …”

Table of Contents: “…In the shadow of the samurai. Tojo's early years -- The neighbor's garden -- Fires of radicalism -- The dawn of a Renaissance -- Toward a new order in East Asia -- II. …”

Table of Contents: “…Taranaki : D'paysement and celebrity worship in The last samurai -- 'Welcome to New Zealand, home of middle earth' : heterotopian impulse, western anxiety and spatial identity in The lord of the rings -- Conclusions.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Aims of Education for Modern Japan -- Part I: The Feudal Foundation of Modern Japanese Education -- Education of the Samurai in Tokugawa Schools: Nisshinkan -- Education of the Samurai in the West: London University and Rutgers College, 1863-1868 -- The Meiji Restoration: Reemergence of Tokugawa Schools, 1868-1871 -- Part II: The First Decade of Modern Education, 1870s: The American Model -- The Gakusei: The First National Plan for Education, 1872 -- The Iwakura Mission: A Survey of Western Education, 1872-1873 -- The Modern Education of Japanese Girls: Georgetown, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, 1872 -- The Modern Japanese Teacher: The San Francisco Method, 1872-1873 -- Implementing the First National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase I, 1873-1876 -- Rural Resistance to Modern Education: The Japanese Peasant, 1873-1876 -- The Imperial University of Engineering: The Scottish Model, 1873-1882 -- Pestalozzi to Japan: Switzerland to New York to Tokyo, 1875-1878 -- Scientific Agriculture and Puritan Christianity on the Japanese Frontier: The Massachusetts Model, 1876-1877 -- The Philadelphia Centennial: The American Model Revisited, 1876 -- The Second National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase II, 1877-1879 -- Part III: The Second Decade of Modern Education, 1880s: Reaction against the Western Model -- The Imperial Will on Education: Moral versus Science Education, 1879-1880 -- The Third National Plan for Education: The Reverse Course, 1880-1885 -- Education for the State: The German Model, 1886-1889 -- The Imperial Rescript on Education: Western Science and Eastern Morality for the Twentieth Century, 1890.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Thompson -- Suzuki Harunobu: the cult and culture of color / Allen Hockley -- Katsukawa Shunshō: Ukiyo-e paintings for the samurai elite / Timothy Clark -- Tsutaya Jūzaburō: master publisher / Julie Nelson Davis -- The literary network: private commissions for Hokusai and his circle / John T. …”

Table of Contents: “…Jim / by Nancy Rawles -- The rise of Silas Lapham / by William Dean Howells -- The samurai's garden / by Gail Tsukiyama -- The sound of waves / by Yukio Mishima -- The wizard of Oz.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The spirit of Japan -- Paladins of the past -- Modern day warriors -- Samurai sports -- IV. Flowers and dreams -- Picture poems -- Women artists take over -- Sophisticated ladies -- V. …”

Table of Contents: “…Personal journey : the ninja and the samurai -- 16. Learning to lead : the genesis and rebirth of IBM -- 17. …”

Table of Contents: “…Monet's character -- The youth of the artist, the art of his youth -- The perils of young love, Monet's magnificent failure -- Success and scandal -- Camille as Flora -- Painted metaphors for the absent woman -- Ariadne on the Grande Île / William Conger -- The myth of the bourgeois family -- Honeymoon and exile : Camille's status legitimized -- The Argenteuil years -- Argenteuil, 1872-1873 : classic Impressionist landscapes, mythic and enigmatic images -- Camille as collective muse -- Camille ascendant; Camille redux -- Camille's captive samurai -- The muse of the past, the muse of the future -- Camille and Argenteuil in decline -- The course of Camille's final iIllness and its repercussions in Monet's art -- Death and transfiguration -- Epilogue. …”

Table of Contents: “…The ancient world -- Ise -- A Shinto pantheon -- the Horyuji at Nara -- Asuka -- Heijo -- The Todaiji at Nara -- The courtly age of Heian -- Heian -- Mandalas and Shingon art -- The Byodoin at Uji -- Paradise and hell in Buddhist theology -- Samurai society in the medieval age -- Culture and society in the medieval age -- Kamakura -- The Kumano shrines -- The Zen gardens of Kyoto -- Japanese gardens -- Noh drama -- Castles in war and peace -- Kabuki theater -- The Edo period -- Edo -- the tea ceremony -- Everyday life in the Edo period -- Japanese ceramics -- Netsuke -- The floating world -- Pilgrimage and travel. -- Modern Japan. …”

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