Product Description: While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women...read more

The first volume of Annotated Japanese Literary Gems, makes available representative examples of annotated Japanese short stories and novellas from Meiji to the present. This multi-volume set of books―six volumes are planned―provides rubi for nearly all kanji at first use. Each story is also included in a plain-text version. Along with the extensive annotations provided, the collection serves as a resource for students of modern Japanese literature and can also be used as an intermediate to advanced language text. The volume is printed Japanese-style, with pages ordered from right to left.The present volume, the first in the collection, introduces stories by three important postwar authors: "Readers on the Train," "A Dictionary Village," and "A Town Called Z" from Fox-Possessed Moon, by Tawada Yoko; My Friend, by Hayashi Kyoko; and Trees and Grass, by Nakagami Kenji.

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Product Description: This short and poignant biography gives the reader some very touching insights into the make-up of this special human being. This biography was part of the Suzukis' fiftieth wedding anniversary observance in 1978. It traces Suzuki's roots back to early childhood, and continues up until the movement caught hold in the United States in the mid-sixties...read more

Uses factual accounts, short stories, photographs, poems and drawings to present the experiences of the atom bomb survivors (view table of contents)