Tuttle Publishing imprint: 1545 books
by Takeshi Umehara
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
These classic Japanese short stories are masterfully translated and a joy to read.
The medieval period in Japan, spanning the years from about 1200 to 1600, was a time of rapid cultural development that saw the emergence and refinement of many new art forms. One of these was the religious folk...
by A. L. Sadler
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
This expert guide to Japanese architecture is of enormous historical importance to the understanding of Japanese design and culture.
Pioneering Japanologist A. L. Sadler's invaluable study of Japanese architecture first appeared in 1941. Considered a classic in its field, unequaled in clarity...
China Illustrated
Western Views of the Middle Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
This beautifully illustrated social history of China highlights various aspects of traditional China as seen through the eyes of foreign visitors and residents from the time of the first trading contacts with China in the mid-sixteenth century to the beginning of World War II.
The lives and...
A Brief History of Japan
Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.
First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles...
Ornamented Tray
Two Centuries of Ornamented Trays (1720-1920)
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 1971
This authoritative and definitive work contains the first formal history of antique trays every published. Each of its six chapters is written by a different authority. They discuss:
Lace-Edge Painting
The "Chippendale" Style
Trays Ornamented with Gold Leaf
The Freehand Bronze Techniques
Stenciled...
Bar-jutsu
The American Art of Bar Fighting
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
"It's as if Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn wrote a treatise on bouncing as the sequel to "Wedding Crashers."— Pittsburgh Post Gazette
A pounding headache, mouth dry as the desert, memory loss…and wait, a black eye and a fat lip? You have officially woken up from another night...
Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen
The Detective Story World in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1997
This book is a colorful collection of Japanese crime stories in English.
The ideal detective-crime-mystery story of today, in the eyes of Japanese writers and critics, is "one which, although written around a believable framework, is first and foremost a detective fiction." And that...
Yoshiwara
Geishas, Courtesans, and the Pleasure Quarters of Old Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
"Lust will not keep…Something must be done about it."—inscription at the entrance to Yoshiwara
For over a hundred years the Western world has heard whispers of the pleasure city, Yoshiwara, set behind its walls in the city of Edo itself, which is today called Tokyo. Here was an...
by Alan Watts
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1999
The Tao of Philosophy is a literary adaptation of talks selected to introduce the new "Love of Wisdom" series by Alan Watts to today's audiences.
The following chapters provide rich examples of the way in which the philosophy of the Tao is as contemporary today as it was when it flourished...
Getting Genki In Japan
The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Family in Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The unexpected gift of a favored bottle of shiraz from her husband leads to the adventure of a lifetime for Karen Pond and her family—moving from rural Maine to the largest city in the world: Tokyo, Japan.
Getting Genki in Japan is a collection of illustrated travel and culture essays and...
The Magic Gem
A Korean Folktale About Why Cats and Dogs Do Not Get Along
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Beautifully illustrated with watercolor paintings, The Magic Gem is a much-loved Korean folk tale that tells the story of why cats and dogs don't get along.
A poor fisherman wins a fabulous magic gem that grants his every wish before it's lost to a conniving neighbor. His cat and dog manage...
Maya and the Turtle
A Korean Fairy Tale
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
**WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL 2013-2014 MORNING CALM MEDAL**
This multicultural children's book presents a heartwarming Korean fairy tale about a little girl and a fortunate encounter.
Poverty is all Maya has ever known, but she doesn't allow it to stop her from caring for her father,...
by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1996
This classic exploration of the intellectual life has fully retained its unique value since initial publication in 1904, and is a valuable addition to any discerning reader's collection.
No subsequent work fully compares to this rare mixture of personal insight, ethics, taste, psychology, and...
by Bong-youn Choy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
This detailed, scholarly history of Korea is a comprehensive political and socioeconomic history from 57 B.C. to modern times, including North and South Korea.
Specializing in Korean industrial structure, economic planning, and administration, the author presents a concise yet readable historical...