This is the first book in English devoted solely to the Japanese Crane, one of the world's rarest and most handsome birds, a symbol in Japan of long life and happiness, an inspiration to artists and poets, and a popular motif on everything from wedding gowns to cocktail sticks and pots of sake.

The Japanese Crane

Science & Math

Britton, Dorothy

Hayashida, Tsuneo

Biological Sciences

Kodansha International

New York Newsday called this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan "one of the saddest and yet most uplifting books about childhood you will ever encounter." Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, seven-year-old Tomiko Higa struggles to survive on the battlefield of Okinawa, Japan. There, as some of the fiercest fighting of the war rages around her, she must live alone, with nothing to fall back on but her own wits and daring. Fleeing from encroaching enemy forces, searching desperately for her lost sisters, taking scraps of food from the knapsacks of dead soldiers, risking death at every turn, Tomiko somehow finds the strength and courage to survive. Many years later she decided to tell this story. Originally intended for juvenile readers, it is sure to move adults as well, because it is such a vivid portrait of the unintended civilian casualties of any war.

The Girl with the White Flag

Biographies & Memoirs

Higa, Tomiko

Community & Culture

This volume offers invaluable new insights into the controversial lives and history of Prince and Princess Chichibu - two high-profile members of the Japanese imperial family, both before and after the Pacific War. Their lives were lived both above and below 'the clouds', with the princess a commoner in an arranged marriage and the popular 'sporting prince', dogged by ill health and his association with the Japanese Imperial Army. At the heart of the book is a complete translation of Princess Chichibu's original autobiography, first published in a shorter, condensed version in 1996 under the title The Silver Drum, together with a short biography of Prince Chichibu supported by important new data on his role in the war years, thanks to recent access to new studies as well as the prince's own writings. Also included for the first time is a translation of most of Princess Chichibu's collection of poems which formed part of the original memoir.

Prince and Princess Chichibu: Two Lives Lived Above and Below the Clouds

Historical

BRILL

This illustrated volume is devoted to the Japanese crane, one of the world's rarest and most strikingly beautiful birds - symbol of long life and happiness, and a source of inspiration to artists and poets.

The Japanese Crane: Bird of Happiness

Kodansha USA Inc

The revised edition of this celebration of Japan's parklands includes newly designated parks and an updated text by the author.

National Parks of Japan

Sutherland, Mary

Business & Money

In the seventeenth century, the pilgrim-poet Basho undertook on foot a difficult and perilous journey to the remote northeastern provinces of Honshu, Japan's main island. Throughout the five-month journey, the master of haiku kept a record of his impressions in a prose-poetry diary later called The Narrow Road to a Far Province. His diary was to become one of the classics of Japanese literature. Noted professor of Japanese literature J. Thomas Rimer wrote of this classic: "In his diary, which Basho kept reworking and revising until his death, he mixed fact, fiction, poetry, and prose to create the record of a journey that moves both geographically and spiritually, one strand mixing with the other on virtually every page. Read and reread with care, The Narrow Road to a Far Province can reveal more qualities still basic to Japanese cultural attitudes than perhaps any other work in the whole canon of classical literature. For once, the highest of reputations is truly deserved." This new edition is illustrated with sumi-e ink sketches by Japanese artist Shiro Tsujimura.

A Haiku Journey: Bashos Narrow Road to a Far Province

Literature & Fiction

Bashō, Matsuo

Poetry

Kodansha USA

New York Newsday called this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan "one of the saddest and yet most uplifting books about childhood you will ever encounter." Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, seven-year-old Tomiko Higa struggles to survive on the battlefield of Okinawa, Japan. There, as some of the fiercest fighting of the war rages around her, she must live alone, with nothing to fall back on but her own wits and daring. Fleeing from encroaching enemy forces, searching desperately for her lost sisters, taking scraps of food from the knapsacks of dead soldiers, risking death at every turn, Tomiko somehow finds the strength and courage to survive. Many years later she decided to tell this story. Originally intended for juvenile readers, it is sure to move adults as well, because it is such a vivid portrait of the unintended civilian casualties of any war.

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The Japanese Crane

The Girl with the White Flag

Prince and Princess Chichibu: Two Lives Lived Above and Below the Clouds

The Japanese Crane: Bird of Happiness

National Parks of Japan

A Haiku Journey: Bashos Narrow Road to a Far Province

The Girl with the White Flag