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This companion tale to Moloka'i tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama--quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa--was forced to give up at birth. The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry and grape farm in California, her marriage and unjust internment at Manzanar Relocation Camp...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
84) Suki's kimono
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IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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A little girl declares that on the first day of school she will wear the kimono that her grandmother brought her during her visit from Japan, no matter what anyone says.
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Japantown mysteries volume 1
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"Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been "interned" by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the...
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IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"A touching story about Japanese American children who corresponded with their beloved librarian while they were imprisoned in World War II internment camps. When Executive Order 9066 is enacted after the attack at Pearl Harbor, children's librarian Clara Breed's young Japanese American patrons are to be sent to prison camp. Before they are moved, Breed asks the children to write her letters and gives them books to take with them. Through the three...
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2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
closely based on the true story of Nakahama Manjirō
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"This is the unlikely but true story of the Japanese American Citizens League's fight for an official government apology and compensation for the imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Author John Tateishi, himself the leader of the JACL Redress Committee for many years, is first to admit that the task was herculean in scale. The campaign was seeking an unprecedented admission of wrongdoing from Congress. It depended...
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The Complete Guide To Bonsai Care And Techniques For Beginners
Bonsai has been around for a long time. Its culture is deeply rooted in Asian culture, and it not only adds a touch of class to your garden and home, but it can also provide a beautifully sedate focus for relaxation and meditation - right in your own home!
This is the art of bonsai. You take a tree that is supposed to grow many feet tall and allow it to grow a foot or two taller....
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This illustrated study of Tenryuji, ranked number one among the five great Zen temples of Kyoto and a major destination for tourism and worship, weaves together history, design, culture, and personal reflection to reveal the inner workings of a great spiritual institution. Looking at Tenryuji's present as a mirror to its past, and detailing the famous pond and rockwork composition by renowned designer Muso Soseki, Norris Brock Johnson presents the...
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Atsuko Oshiro is seventeen years old, and her life is falling apart. She's always lived on a farm and is used to hard work. But now it's much more difficult. Her country, Japan, has been at war the entire time she has been a teenager. As Japan marches toward defeat, the government enacts increasingly harsh policies. Food and supplies become scarce; people go hungry. Atsuko's dream of a university education vanishes when her school closes. The army...
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Esta colección toca todos los temas queridos por los poetas: naturaleza, amor, amistad, sueños, poesía, divinidad.
Realmente podemos encontrarnos en estos poemas, tan simples y tan profundos al mismo tiempo.
Podemos ocuparnos del alma delicada y soñadora de la poetisa y sentimos su corazón vibrar, mientras sus versos, estrofa tras estrofa, nos llevan al fondo de su alma, tan enamorada de la Vida.
Fabrizio Legger (Postremo Vate) de la introducción....
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El haiku japonés es una estrofa que pretende captar los asombros del ser humano. Es un modo poético de hacerse con los instantes. Bash, el padre del haiku, lo definió como "lo que ocurre aquí ahora".
Cualquier suceso, cualquier realidad, grande o pequeña, hermosa o sin aparente belleza, tiene derecho a habitar el haiku. Por eso el escritor inglés, experto en la cultura japonesa y en el género, Reginald Horace Blyth, explicaba que el haiku...
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This profusely illustrated book by an expert in the Japanese art of flower arrangement surveys many techniques, from ancient to modern. American writer Mary Averill (1866–1954) offers practical advice drawn from her direct experience of the importance of flowers to daily life in Japan. More than 80 drawings depict the finer details of choosing flowers, proper use of foliage, combining different varieties of flowers, and the symbolism involved. Averill,...
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Más allá de su fama de enfant terrible y de su marcada inclinación por el suicidio, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) es sin ninguna duda uno de los máximos exponentes de la moderna literatura japonesa. A contracorriente siempre de las normas preestablecidas en una sociedad tan rígida y conservadora como la japonesa, Dazai se convirtió, a pesar de su origen aristocrático, en un auténtico paria. Su existencia estuvo signada por la vergüenza, la perplejidad,...
96) Dulce Felicidad
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Sweetheart deals for Wall Street, the nationalization of the automakers, global warming regulations, and Barack Obama's unprecedented spending spree-it's an all-out assault on regular Americans' pocketbooks. President Obama says it's for the good of America, but investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt to prove it's only good for FOBs-Friends of Barack: the campaign donors, the lobbyists, and the well-connected. In Obamanomics, Carney...
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Indian contribution to World Drama is immense. The dramatic powers of our Indian dramatists are matchless and their experiments with stage in traditional and modern age are wonderful. At the beginning stage, our dramatists had British influence. Some of our plays are, covered out of mythological stories. But, later dramatists like Asif Curimbhoy, Badal Sircar, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani, Manjula Padmanabhan, Mohan Rakesh took Indian Drama to...
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Yukio Tsuji (1939-2000), born in Asakusa, Tokyo, graduated from the French Department of Meiji University and took the pen name 'kamotsusen' (cargo ship) as a haiku poet. His poems have often been classified as 'light verse', light-hearted in essence; some people inevitably criticized him for his lack of seriousness and of a grand style. Since his poems are structurally beautiful, their architectural forms are, needless to say, the product of much...
99) Haiku, Volume 3
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HAIKU Vol.3 is a collection of Haiku by Noel Lorenz. Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry. I have tried to extract the sweetness of haiku in this book and still stick to the short-long-short format. In my experience, the English and Japanese use the syllabic count differently. Whatever we write cannot be compared to the real count in Japanese 5-7-5.In this book, I have taken haiku to another level by allowing the free count. This book follows short-long-short...
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This beautifully illustrated book provides an inspirational and practical introduction to the traditions of Japanese Zen gardens, using natural materials such as wood, bamboo, rocks and pebbles. Emphasizing the value of shape in trees and shrubs with the subtlety of color through the varied greens of foliage and moss, Authentic Japanese Gardens explains how western plants and materials can be used to achieve peaceful, contemplative gardens. There...
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