"It is a curious sight to look over a vast city of nearly a million inhabitants, and detect no chimney with its homelike streak of blue smoke. There is of course no church spire, with its usual... More > architectural inanities. With the absence of chimneys and the almost universal use of charcoal for heating purposes, the cities have an atmosphere of remarkable clearness and purity; so clear, indeed, is the atmosphere that one may look over the city and see distinctly revealed the minuter details of the landscape beyond. The great sun-obscuring canopy of smoke and fumes that forever shroud some of our great cities is a feature happily unknown in Japan."< Less
"It is a curious sight to look over a vast city of nearly a million inhabitants, and detect no chimney with its homelike streak of blue smoke. There is of course no church spire, with its usual... More > architectural inanities. With the absence of chimneys and the almost universal use of charcoal for heating purposes, the cities have an atmosphere of remarkable clearness and purity; so clear, indeed, is the atmosphere that one may look over the city and see distinctly revealed the minuter details of the landscape beyond. The great sun-obscuring canopy of smoke and fumes that forever shroud some of our great cities is a feature happily unknown in Japan."< Less
The Japanese are probably the most careful drivers in the world. Their style of driving is all about making traffic flow smoothly, and about drivers cooperating to make it happen.
In this book,... More > long-term Japanese resident Johan Hjelm, who got a Japanese drivers license from the ground up, tells you how defensive driving works in Japan, and how Japanese drivers practice it. He teaches you how you can apply the Japanese style of driving at home, and become a more defensive driver - or at least, a safer one.< Less
The Japanese are probably the most careful drivers in the world. Their style of driving is all about making traffic flow smoothly, and about drivers cooperating to make it happen. In this book,... More > long-term Japanese resident Johan Hjelm, who got a Japanese drivers license from the ground up, tells you how defensive driving works in Japan, and how Japanese drivers practice it. He teaches you how you can apply the Japanese style of driving at home, and become a more defensive driver - or at least, a safer one.< Less
Furin is the term for Japanese wind bell. It has a clapper with a string and a rectangular card. It is a standard feature of summer in Japan. The furin is a very nice and beautiful adornment for our... More > homes. With so many colours, shapes and designs to choose from, it makes a great gift too for any occasion.< Less
Ueki no Te Ire: The Japanese Art of Giant Bonsai is the first comprehensive guide to Japanese-style landscape pruning in the English language. It’s an ideal introduction to the subject for... More > bonsai and Japanese garden enthusiasts as well as landscape designers, and professional gardeners. The book includes a brief history of Asian topiary as well as step-by-step guidelines for pruning and training landscape trees in several formal Japanese styles.
The book features extensive full color photos of trees taken at residential and monastery gardens throughout Japan. Extensive appendices include glossaries of Japanese and English arboriculture terms, as well as a detailed list of recommended public gardens in the U.S., Canada, and Japan.
More information about this book and about the Japanese art of landscape tree pruning can be found at:
http://www.giantbonsai.com< Less
Ueki no Te Ire: The Japanese Art of Giant Bonsai is the first comprehensive guide to Japanese-style landscape pruning in the English language. It’s an ideal introduction to the subject for... More > bonsai and Japanese garden enthusiasts as well as landscape designers, and professional gardeners. The book includes a brief history of Asian topiary as well as step-by-step guidelines for pruning and training landscape trees in several formal Japanese styles.
The book features extensive full color photos of trees taken at residential and monastery gardens throughout Japan. Extensive appendices include glossaries of Japanese and English arboriculture terms, as well as a detailed list of recommended public gardens in the U.S., Canada, and Japan.
More information about this book and about the Japanese art of landscape tree pruning can be found at:
http://www.giantbonsai.com< Less
Flames of War compliant suplement detailing the Japanese and USMC Forces for the Pacific Theatre of WW2, 1937 to 1945. Includes special rules on bunkers, detailed order of battle for IJN forces from... More > the invasion of China in '37 to defence of the Home Islands in '45. Including engineering rules, obstacles and comprehensive rules on bunkers, obstacles, kamikaze atacks, banzai charges and desperate defenders rules. Detailed TO&E for the USMC from D-Series, E-Series and finally F-Series organisation -rules foramphibious assaulots, engineers, ship-to-shore bombardments and a whole host more!
Fully illustrated with pictures, photographs and a comprehensive rules and order of battle section make this an invaluable addition to your FoW collection.< Less
Flames of War compliant suplement detailing the Japanese and USMC Forces for the Pacific Theatre of WW2, 1937 to 1945. Includes special rules on bunkers, detailed order of battle for IJN forces from... More > the invasion of China in '37 to defence of the Home Islands in '45. Including engineering rules, obstacles and comprehensive rules on bunkers, obstacles, kamikaze atacks, banzai charges and desperate defenders rules. Detailed TO&E for the USMC from D-Series, E-Series and finally F-Series organisation -rules foramphibious assaulots, engineers, ship-to-shore bombardments and a whole host more!
Fully illustrated with pictures, photographs and a comprehensive rules and order of battle section make this an invaluable addition to your FoW collection.< Less
Namiko, a young Japanese teacher of languages, travels to Oxford to improve her English. During her stay in England, which takes a couple of weeks, she meets a student from the 'Continent'. After... More > having returned to Kyoto, the old Japanese imperial city and her home town, she starts a long correspondence with Hubert, the student from the 'Continent', whom she met in Oxford. In almost two years, from early autumn of 1975 till late spring of 1977, she writes seventy-nine letters. And in between she travels for a period of several months to Europe to meet with Hubert. The possibilities and impossibilities of this Euro-Asian relationship are described with great subtlety in Namiko's letters.< Less
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