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Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line
A unique take on modern life in Tokyo, Japan’s capital city. A Japan of trains, everyday to and fro, carriage scenes and theatre, vistas from the window, advertising posters. Each to be savoured through a specific Tokyo line – the Odakyu. Pitched as creative text and colour illustrations, ‘Tokyo Commute’ offers on-track and off-track observations. A gallery of mirrors, musings, memories.
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Homo Contribuens: The Need to Give and the Search for Fulfilment
Here are the thoughts of a successful businessman and entrepreneur reflecting on the meaning of life that offer humanity a new and dynamic self-awareness as a natural ‘giver’ and thus an assured pathway to personal fulfillment; hence the title ‘Homo Contribuens’ – ‘man the giver’. In fact, the realization that there is an innate need to give, argues Taki, liberates the individual and takes that person beyond the conventional understanding of altruistic behavior.
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Four Days in January: A Letter to Jillsan
This is a modern tale, a journey of the heart, a road back, revisiting many cities and enduring Eastern and Western sentiments to light and lighten our understanding of life’s fleeting appearance. It is a way of honoring the life of a loved one, to tell a personal story that reflects the shared, universal truth of the silence of loss from Kakimoto to Goethe and beyond. It is a beautifully told, deeply moving and poignant letter of loss.
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The Italian Achievement: An A-Z of over 1000 “Firsts” Achieved by Italians in Almost Every Aspect of Life over the Last 1000 Years
This book is an A to Z of over one thousand “firsts” achieved by Italians in almost every aspect of life during the last millennium—from fashion and food to flying and photography; from art and design to painting and sailing; from motor cars to musical instruments; from philosophy to physics; from clocks to computers.
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How Scrutable Are The Japanese
Learn How to Teach English to the Japanese and How to Speak Japanese at the Same Time! This book is intended for learners and teachers of English to Japanese students who struggle with sounds that do not exist in Japanese or are confusing to the Japanese ear, especially “f” and “v,” “l” and “r” and “w,” in order to avoid the typical “Japlish” mispronunciations. Known as the Kawata Method, the text offers clear pronunciation exercises and methodology. The author also provides an introduction to learning Japanese, including useful situational dialogs. In addition, there are helpful chapters on understanding aspects of the Japanese character and way of life.
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Italy’s World Of Wines
Including Wine Index and Commentaries. This is a book for anyone interested in ‘discovering’ the varieties, qualities and characteristics of Italian wines, now more widely available outside Italy than ever before. Part II provides a fascinating personal ‘encounter’ with many of Italy’s more widely known wines and will be of interest also to the connoisseur. There is much else that informs and entertains in this volume, from discussions on the history and development of wine-making, drinking and storage, to the art of eating and drinking.
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Tales Of The Samurai – Stories Of Old Japan – Book 1
Written by the pen of a swordsman who has immersed himself in the warrior traditions of old Japan for over 50 years and author of several books relating to the Samurai culture and traditions, here are 14 tales set across a period of a thousand years, ending during the final upheavals of the mid-sixteenth century prior to the unification of Japan under the Tokugawa shoguns. Drawing inspiration from his own extensive researches, previous writings and popular folklore of late nineteenth-century scholars, these delightfully told tales, supported by the author’s own illustrations, make compulsive reading and offer a fascinating window on times now long past.
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Tales Of Enshin, The Reluctant Samurai – Stories Of Old Japan – Book 2
Written by the author of Tales of the Samurai, here the focus is on the stories told by a former warrior turned traveling monk known as Enshin (accompanied by his ox named Kuroi-san, or ‘Mr. Black’). Enshin’s accounts cover the period from the Kamakura era in the 13th century to the strife-torn ‘Age of War’ in the 16th. It is a time when the warriors’ martial arts in Bujutsu ‘the arts of the battlefield’ reached their peak. Although not historically factual, these stories, delightfully illustrated by the author, parallel the ‘martial ways’ of those days, which the reader will find completely absorbing.
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