Kyushu, gateway to Japan : a concise history / by Cobbing, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Takachiho : the floating bridge of heaven -- Himiko's lands : gateway to Wa -- Tsukushi : isle of unknown fires -- Dazaifu : the distant court -- Hakata : the making of a mercantile centre -- Divine wind : the Mongol invasions -- Divided loyalties : pirates and rival courts -- All under heaven : missionaries and warlords -- Turbulent decades : state control and resistance -- The great peace in Kyushu -- Kyushu in the Meiji restoration -- The twentieth century.…”
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Hakata : the cultural worlds of Northern Kyushu /

Table of Contents: “…Hakata and Dazaifu: crossroads, boundaries, and identity formation in ancient Kyushu / Bruce L. Batten -- Michizane, Tenjin, and Dazaifu / Robert Borgen -- Zen in Northern Kyushu / Nobuyoshi Yamabe -- The Hakata merchant's world: cultural networks in a centre of maritime trade / Andrew Cobbing -- Chanoyu in Hakata : Zen, Karamono and the reception of tea ceremony / Kazushige Horimoto -- Fictocritical momentum : Yamakasa masculinity as Hakata tradition / Tim Cross -- Revisiting the globalism of the periphery : "Asianism" in Fukuoka / Reiko Ogawa -- Matsumoto Jiichiro and Fukuoka / Ian Neary -- Traditional craft industries in Fukuoka Prefecture / Yasushi Yonemitsu -- Staging the local and sacramental : Yamakasa as New Noh / Tim Cross…”
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Art and engagement in early postwar Japan / by Jesty, Justin, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Participatory culture and democratic culture -- Art and engagement -- The tales of the tale of Akebono Village -- The social work of documentary and reportage art as movement -- Avant-garde realism -- Katsuragawa Hiroshi, Ikeda Tatsuo, and Nakamura Hiroshi -- Touching down at the Sōbi seminar -- Sōbi as organization and movement -- Sōbi's philosophy and pedagogy -- Hani Susumu and the creativity of the camera -- The grand meeting of heroes -- Kyushu-ha : between three worlds -- Kyushu-ha's art -- A cruel story of anti-art -- Epilogue : hope in the past and the future.…”
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World trade systems of the East and the West : Nagasaki and the Asian bullion trade networks / by Gunn, Geoffrey C.

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Glossary/Abbreviations -- Note on Weights and Currencies -- Introduction -- Kyushu in the East Asian Trade Networks -- Merchants and Missionaries in the Foundation of Nagasaki -- Nagasaki and the Silk Trade -- The Dutch and English at Hirado -- The Shimabara Rebellion (1637-38) Revisited -- Nagasaki and the Southeast Asia Trade -- The Chinese of Nagasaki and their Social and Commercial Activities -- Nagasaki in the Age of Kaempfer -- Parameters of the Bullion Trade Economy Network -- Conclusion.…”
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The theory of English lexicography, 1530-1791 / by Hayashi, Tetsurō, 1921-

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Gateway to Japan : Hakata in war and peace, 500-1300 / by Batten, Bruce Loyd

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Heian Japan, centers and peripheries /

Table of Contents: “…Max Moerman -- Part IV: Negotiating domestic peripheries -- Famine, climate, and faming in Japan, 670-1100 / William Wayne Farris -- Life of commoners in the provinces: the Owari no gebumi of 988 / Charlotte von Verschuer -- Lordship interdicted: Taira no Tadatsune and the limited horizons of warrior ambition / Karl Friday -- Part V: Placing Heian Japan in the Asian world -- Cross-border traffic on the Kyushu coast, 794-1086 / Bruce L. Batten -- Jōjin's travels from center to center (with some periphery in between) / Robert Borgen.…”
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Heian Japan, centers and peripheries /

Table of Contents: “…Max Moerman -- Part IV: Negotiating domestic peripheries -- Famine, climate, and faming in Japan, 670-1100 / William Wayne Farris -- Life of commoners in the provinces: the Owari no gebumi of 988 / Charlotte von Verschuer -- Lordship interdicted: Taira no Tadatsune and the limited horizons of warrior ambition / Karl Friday -- Part V: Placing Heian Japan in the Asian world -- Cross-border traffic on the Kyushu coast, 794-1086 / Bruce L. Batten -- Jōjin's travels from center to center (with some periphery in between) / Robert Borgen.…”
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