I do, of course, also recommend checking out many other books by authors of Asian descent, be they Asian, Asian-Canadian, etc., including The Henna Wars and Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar, The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri, Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao, The...
Masanobu was a pupil of Shigemasa and was one of the leading authors and illustrators of kibyoshi, ehon and kyoka anthologies as well as being a painter and print artist. He illustrated the fine set of double-oban prints of courtesans in 1783-4: Yoshiwara keisai shin bijin awase jihitsu ...
Toriyama is regarded as one of the authors who changed the history of manga, as his works are highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration. Birthplace: Nagoya, Japan Nationality: Japan Also ranks #14 on 16 Anime Creat...
Even now writing about them, they seem to me like stills from a dream, scenes out of a fairy tale: the pattern of the white gulls obscuring the plough; the rays of sunlight striking the ground behindThe lonely farm;the mysterious stillness ofThe island of the dead;the arching leap over ...
The main reasons why these literary weaknesses have occurred appear to be firstly that children's historical fiction has been written to teach the child reader how to behave, and secondly that authors have concentrated on providing historical information instead of interesting plots. Whilst the ...
Authors and Affiliations Sophia Staite Section Editor information Rights and permissions Reprints and permissions Copyright information © 2023 Springer Nature Switzerland AG About this entry Cite this entry Staite, S. (2023). Japanese Anime Heroism. In: Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies. Springer, Cham...
Authors and Affiliations Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Truman Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, 91905, Jerusalem, Israel S. N. Eisenstadt Additional information This research was supported by the Basic Research Foundation administered by The Israel Academy of Sc...
(2013), this article explores how and why these works enable readers to experience a re-vising of Japanese scholars' and authors' first encounters with Britain and the British Empire during the late nineteenth century, a time of opening up to the West and simultaneously a moment t...
He is most famous for his accurate historical fiction and is still one of the most read Japanese authors in Germany. The Hunting Gun A man who calls himself Josuke Misugi recognizes himself as the figure described in a poem published in a hunting magazine. He writes to the poet and sends...
Authors and Affiliations Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia Lintao Qi & Shani Tobias Corresponding author Correspondence toLintao Qi. Editor information Editors and Affiliations Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia Lintao Qi Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia ...