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Language: en
Pages: 130
Pages: 130
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-17 - Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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Language: en
Pages: 84
Pages: 84
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-19 - Publisher:
Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's best writers of the 2oth century, was deeply attracted to the patriotism and martial spirit of Japan's past, which he contrasted u
Language: en
Pages: 330
Pages: 330
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-08 - Publisher: Routledge
This book bears witness to the author's psychoanalytic journey from the years 1994-1995 to the present, and as such is a completion and a continuation of his pr
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-20 - Publisher: Kodansha USA
The history of seppuku -- Japanese ritual suicide by cutting the stomach, sometimes referred to as hara-kiri -- spans a millennium, and came to be favored by sa
Language: en
Pages: 145
Pages: 145
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-16 - Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
"Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-up specimen of an antique virtue preserved