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Autore |
Kiritani Elizabeth |
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Titolo |
Vanishing Japan [[electronic resource] ] : traditions, crafts & culture / / Elizabeth Kiritani ; foreword by Donald Richie ; illustrations by Itsuo Kiritani |
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North Clarendon, Vt., : C. E. Tuttle Co., 1995 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-60560-X |
9786613630568 |
1-4629-0427-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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RichieDonald <1924-> |
KiritaniItsuo |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Japan Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; 1 On The Street; 2 Housing and Interiors; 3 Artisans and Crafts; 4 Festivals and Events; 5 Seasonal Customs; 6 Daily Life; 7 Entertainment; Index of Japanese Terms |
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Pawnshops and handmade paper. shoe shiners and Shinto jugglers . money rakes and mosquito netting all these were once a familiar part of daily life in JapanMany elements of that daily life , like the Obon dances and oreiboko apprenticeships, have no counterpart in any other culture : they are purely unique to Japan . But with the tremendous changes of the modern age, most traces of traditional life in Japan are fast disappearing, soon to be gone forever. Still, there are a few holdouts. especially in Japan 's shitamachi. or working-class neighborhoods, where many of the survivors of |
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