Haruko, Child of Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haruko, Child of Japan write by Evangeline Dora Edwards. This book was released on 1934. Haruko, Child of Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Haruko’s World
Haruko’s World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haruko’s World write by . This book was released on 1983-06. Haruko’s World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Japan as in the United States, family farming is on the wane, increasingly rejected by the younger generation in favor of more promising economic pursuits and more sophisticated comforts. Yet for centuries past, the village and the family farm have constituted the world of the vast majority of Japanese women, as of Japanese men. The dramatic economic and demographic developments of the past two decades have orced extensive changes in the lives of Japanese farm women, many of hwom have been left virtually in charge of their family farms. This book is a study of Japanese farm women's lives in the present era: its central figure is 42-year-old Haruko, a complex, vibrant woman who both exemplifies and makes a mockery of the stereotype of Japanese women. Through Haruko we learn the work routine, family relationships, and social life of the women who are the mainstay of Japanese agriculture. Other women from Haruko's village also figure in the story, and the author's observations of them, based largely on a six-month stay with Haruko and her family in 1974-75, are supplemented with data from questionnaires and personal interviews. An epilogue recounts the author's return to Haruko's village in 1982 and describes the changes that have occurred since 1975 in the lives of Haruko's family and other village women. The book is illustrated with photographs.
Child-life in Japan & Japanese Child-stories
Child-life in Japan & Japanese Child-stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child-life in Japan & Japanese Child-stories write by Matilda Chaplin Ayrton. This book was released on 1879. Child-life in Japan & Japanese Child-stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Maya and the Dragon
Maya and the Dragon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maya and the Dragon write by Haruko Sasaki. This book was released on 2009-05. Maya and the Dragon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Haruko Sasaki (AKA Ha-Ru-Ko BlueStarChild) is a visionary artist whose child-like imagination and playful expression touches people's "inner child." She was born in Tokyo, Japan and spent most of her time in the big city, always yearning to live in nature. In her late 30s, she moved to Northern California where she is surrounded by mountains. Knowing how it felt to live in the city, she appreciates her new environment and developed a deeper connection with nature. It brought her great joy to work closely with children for many years, and she feels that children are a key to our future. Her first book "Maya and the Dragon" bridges all of her gifts and experiences to shine a bright light for our future on Earth.
Japan and American Children's Books
Japan and American Children's Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan and American Children's Books write by Sybille Jagusch. This book was released on 2021-06-18. Japan and American Children's Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For generations, children’s books provided American readers with their first impressions of Japan. Seemingly authoritative, and full of fascinating details about daily life in a distant land, these publications often presented a mixture of facts, stereotypes, and complete fabrications. This volume takes readers on a journey through nearly 200 years of American children’s books depicting Japanese culture, starting with the illustrated journal of a boy who accompanied Commodore Matthew Perry on his historic voyage in the 1850s. Along the way, it traces the important role that representations of Japan played in the evolution of children’s literature, including the early works of Edward Stratemeyer, who went on to create such iconic characters as Nancy Drew. It also considers how American children’s books about Japan have gradually become more realistic with more Japanese-American authors entering the field, and with texts grappling with such serious subjects as internment camps and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Drawing from the Library of Congress’s massive collection, Sybille A. Jagusch presents long passages from many different types of Japanese-themed children’s books and periodicals—including travelogues, histories, rare picture books, folktale collections, and boys’ adventure stories—to give readers a fascinating look at these striking texts. Published by Rutgers University Press, in association with the Library of Congress.
