Product Description: Eighteen unusual paintings preserved at Daishoji Imperial Convent in Kyoto-founded in the 14th century and one of the main Rinzai Zen convents in Japan-are here presented for the first time. They include beautiful calligraphic renderings of classical poems from well-known anthologies, with delicate floral illustrations linking each poem to its appropriate season...read more

Grandmamma and Mr. Man find a bubble machine, and try to pop all the bubbles it makes.

Product Description: These twenty-nine original essays focuses on how cultural and literary genres and norms have developed in response to historical and cross-cultural influences.