Art & Culture

1 February 2008
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One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each

By Peter McMillan

Columbia University Press, 2008, 194 pages. Hardback £23.50. ISBN 13: 978 – 02311143981

Review by Takahiro Miyao

1 February 2008
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Myth, Struggle and Protest in Okinawa

By Miyume Tanji

Routledge, 2006, 234 pages including index, maps, glossary and abbreviations. Hardback. £85.00. ISBN13: 978 – 0415365000

Review by William Farr

1 February 2008
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The Straw Sandal or The Scroll of the Hundred Crabs

By Santo Kyoden, translated by Carmen Blacker with an introduction by Peter Kornicki

ISBN 978-1-905246-64-9, pages 166, Global Oriental, 2008, price £35 (but Japan Society members can order direct from the publishers at a discount)

Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

1 February 2008
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The Japanese Way – Garden Designs

By Maureen Busby

JGS Publishing, 2008, 127 pages, (188 colour photographs and 111 line drawings & water colours), ISBN 978-0-9558188-0-6, price £25.00 (see bottom of article)

Review by Colin Ellis

1 April 2008
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Waga Jinsei No Utagatari – Showa No Aikan (Song Story in My Life – The Joys and Sorrows of Showa Era)

By Hiroyuki Itsuki

Kadokawa Shoten, 2007, 250 pages. Hardback ¥2,500. ISBN – 13: 978-4048839693

Review by Mikihiro Maeda

1 April 2008
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Minka, My Farmhouse in Japan

By John Roderick

Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2008, 255 pages, many black and white illustrations.Hardback £14.99. ISBN – 13: 978-1-56898-731-6

Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

1 April 2008
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Designing and Creating Japanese Gardens

By Penny Underwood

The Crowood Press, 2005, 192 pages, including bibliography and index. Hardback £25. ISBN 13: 978 – 186126 7832

Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

24 June 2008
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Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan

Edited by Alex Kerr
Penguin Books, 2001, 432 pages, ISBN: 0141010002
Review by Hiroko Kawai (GLOCOM)

1 October 2008
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Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

By Melanie Trede and Lorenz Bichler
Taschen, 2008, 294 pages, Japanese binding & bookcase £80.00, ISBN: 978-3-8228-4827-2
Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

1 October 2008
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The Diary of Charles Holme’s 1889 Visit to Japan and North America with Mrs Lasenby Liberty’s Japan: A Pictorial Record

Edited by Toni Huberman, Sonia Ashmore, Yasuko Suga
Global Oriental, 2008, 240 pages (including 8 plates and 50 photographs by Lasenby Liberty), hardback £65.00, ISBN-13: 978-1905246397
Review by Dr Jill Raggett