Tuttle Publishing imprint: 1545 books
Village Japan
Everyday Life in a Rural Japanese Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast.
Ritchie weaves together anecdotes, conversations, lyrical...
Survival Tagalog
How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly! (Tagalog Phrasebook)
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This practical Tagalog phrasebook puts all the most important Tagalog words and phrases in the palm of your hand.
It includes tips for handling situations you'll encounter on a daily basis in the Philippines, making it the most useful Tagalog language book you can buy when traveling! Romanized...
Making Out in Indonesian
Revised Edition (Indonesian Phrasebook)
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Making Out in Indonesian is a fun, accessible and thorough Indonesian phrasebook and guide to the Indonesian language as it's really spoken.
Kamu sangat menarik! Bisa kita ketemu lagi?—(You're very attractive! Shall we meet again?) Answer this correctly in Indonesian and you may be going...
Elementary Tagalog Workbook
Tara, Mag-Tagalog Tayo! Come On, Let's Speak Tagalog! (Downloadable MP3 Audio Included)
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Tara, Mag-Tagalog Tayo!
Come On, Let's Speak Tagalog!
Elementary Tagalog's comprehensive approach will help students master basic Tagalog (Filipino) without frustration. From learning to read Tagalog words and pronounce its sounds to using correct grammar, communicating in dialogues and building...
Intermediate Tagalog
Learn to Speak Fluent Tagalog (Filipino), the National Language of the Philippines (Downloadable material included)
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
At last, a way to improve your Tagalog!
Written by Joi Barrios as the continuation of her best-selling Tagalog for Beginners book, Intermediate Tagalog is the first intermediate-level book designed specifically for people who already speak or understand some basic Tagalog and now wish to achieve...
Making Out in Thai
A Thai Language Phrasebook & Dictionary (Fully Revised with New Manga Illustrations and English-Thai Dictionary)
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Making Out in Thai is a fun, accessible and thorough guide to Thai as it's really spoken in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and throughout Thailand.
This is your guide to modern spoken Thai as it is used in everyday interactions in Thailand today—including many colorful expressions and informal phrases...
Instant Tagalog
How to Express Over 1,000 Different Ideas with Just 100 Key Words and Phrases!
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication!
Do you want to speak simple Tagalog but are too busy to study it? Are you visiting the Philippines for a short time and want a Tagalog phrase book to help you communicate? If so, this is the book for you—it's the quickest...
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Take a firsthand journey into a time, society and world full of intrigue.
In the tenth century, Japan stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Sei Shonagon—a young courtesan of the Heian period—kept a diary, which provides a highly personal account of the intrigues,...
Japanese Tea Ceremony
Cha-No-Yu
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The tea cermony—known as cha-no-yu, or literally "hot water for tea"—has touched nearly every aspect of Japanese life.
First published in 1933 as Cha-No-Yu, or The Japanese Tea Ceremony, this classic remains the gold standard for books on the five-centuries-old tea ceremony, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Readers of medieval Japanese literature have long been captivated by its romance and philosophy. In this volume, two acclaimed thirteenth-century classics, The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike, are presented in translation. The Ten Foot Square Hut (the Hojoki) takes its title from a four...
Samurai Swordsman
Master of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
This Samurai history, filled with dozens of woodblock prints and photographs, is an authoritative text on Japan's most fearsome warriors.
Through fascinating stories and full-color historical images that show the samurai in mesmerizing detail, military historian Stephen Turnbull provides an...
Cha-No-Yu
The Japanese Tea Ceremony
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
This classic of Japanese cultural studies explains the famous Japanese tea ceremony or cha-no-yu with great scholarship and clarity.
In 1933, when A. L. Sadler's imposing book on the Japanese tea ceremony first appeared, there was no other work on the subject in English that even remotely approached...
by Ruth M. Shaver
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The attire of the feudal lords and ladies of old Japan, warriors, priest, courtesans, Edo-period dandies geisha, footmen, farmers- in fact, the whole array of Kabuki's colorful characters-is discussed in fascinating detail in this Japanese Kabuki book.
From kimono and armor to undergarments,...
Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai
A Historical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
A tour de force combining a commanding mastery of historical fact and detail, a comprehensive understanding of the human spirit, and a poetic quality of expression that transforms the hearts of all those it touches.” -The Japan Foundation Newsletter
Kumagai Naozane was a Japanese warrior...