Introduction to Japanese Culture [Audiobook] download free by Narumi Yasuda
- Listen audiobook: Introduction to Japanese Culture
- Author: Narumi Yasuda
- Release date: 2014/7/23
- Publisher: TUTTLE PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9784805313138
- Rating: 8.31 of 10
- Votes: 865
- Review by: Hannah Guest
- Review rating: 7.37 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/13
- Duration: 1H16M58S in 256 kbps (20.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-09
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MP3, MPEG4, WavPack, WAV, AU, WMA (compression CHM, LHA, TAR.LZO, LZ, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 104
- Includes a PDF summary of 8 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 6M16S (1.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Featuring full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, this text is a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture.The richness of Japan's history is renowned worldwide. The heritage of culture that its society has produced and passed on to future generations is one of Japan's greatest accomplishments. In Introduction to Japanese Culture, you'll read an overview, through sixty-eight original and informative essays, of Japan's most notable cultural achievements, including:Religion, Zen Buddhism, arranged marriages and BushidoDrama and Art-from pottery, painting and calligraphy to haiku, kabuki and karateCuisine-everything from rice to raw fishHome and Recreation, from board games such as Go to origami, kimonos and Japanese gardensThe Japan of today is a fully modern, Westernized society in nearly every regard. Even so, the elements of an earlier age are clearly visible in the country's arts, festivals, and customs. This book focuses on the essential constants that remain in present-day Japan and their counterparts in Western culture.Edited by Daniel Sosnoski, an American writer who has lived in Japan since 1985, these well-researched articles, color photographs, and line illustrations provide a compact guide to aspects of Japan that often puzzle the outside observer. Introduction to Japanese Culture is wonderfully informative, a needed primer on the cultural make-up and behaviors of the Japanese. This book is certain to fascinate the student, tourist, or anyone who seeks to know and understand Japanese culture, Japanese etiquette, and the history of Japan.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Asian History, Guidebooks
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 18.36 USD
- Dimensions: 184x256x10mm
- Weight: 399.99g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Boston, United States
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