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Windows on Japan : a walk through place and perception /
Windows on Japan is a deeply insightful commentary that alternates chapters of physical travel with travel through perception about Japan, and challenges the logic of much Western thought about the country that perplexes as much as it pleases. The author walked a route that connects the ports of Nii...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Algora Pub.,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Windows on Japan : |b a walk through place and perception / |c Bruce Roscoe. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Preliminaries; TABLE OF CONTENTS; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 A NIGHT IN NIIGATA; CHAPTER 2 GULLIVER UNDERSTOOD; CHAPTER 3 MISSING PERSONS; CHAPTER 4 PAUL ABOUT HIMSELF; CHAPTER 5 SOUTH INTO SANJO; CHAPTER 6 LETTERS TO THE PAST; CHAPTER 7 100 SACKS OF RICE; CHAPTER 8 SHIRLEY'S CLOAK; CHAPTER 9 FEUDAL FACSIMILE; CHAPTER 10 JACK'S EPIC; CHAPTER 11 AN ORDERLY TOWN; CHAPTER 12 GOLF AND TULIPS; CHAPTER 13 THE SCENE CHANGES; CHAPTER 14 TRADING TERMS; CHAPTER 15 AMID THE TALL CEDARS; CHAPTER 16 ONCE WERE ANIMALS; CHAPTER 17 MATSUE'S LIFE; CHAPTER 18 PUPPETS FEEL NO PAIN. | |
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| 520 | |a Windows on Japan is a deeply insightful commentary that alternates chapters of physical travel with travel through perception about Japan, and challenges the logic of much Western thought about the country that perplexes as much as it pleases. The author walked a route that connects the ports of Niigata and Yokohama and from these windows on the world considers perceptions of people and place. He also assesses the effect of Japan on writers from Jonathan Swift to Oscar Wilde, Shirley MacLaine and Paul Theroux with surprising results. The trading entity that wraps its tentacles around the globe, converses in most languages and understands most customs, is perceptive and urbane and none appears more capable or cosmopolitan. Yet the individuals who inhabit these islands take refuge in their language as a private habitat, resent intrusions and are captured by a cultural particularism that distances them from others. The author discusses this paradox, as well as environmental and linguistic issues and topics of history and literature. Along the way, he lifts a veil on the life of a snow country geisha, discusses current events with a priest and a reporter, and takes advice on becoming a Japanese. Though he is understood, it is only on return visits to places he has come to love that he wins acceptance. Notes on music delightfully enrich the narrative. | ||
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