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![]() | A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine ISBN: 9780295997698 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Suwa Jinja (Nagasaki-shi Japan); Religious life -- Shinto; Shinto -- Customs and practices; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility ISBN: 9780520911796 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Japan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Nobility -- Japan; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan ISBN: 9780824880422 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Gods Japanese; Japan -- Religious life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan ISBN: 9780813565187 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Aging -- Japan; Older people -- Japan; Death -- Social aspects; Mourning customs -- Japan; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan ISBN: 9781684175710 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Gods Shinto -- History -- To 1500; Shinto -- History -- To 1868; Shinto -- Relations -- Buddhism; Buddhism -- Relations -- Shinto; Miwa Mountain Region (Japan) -- Religious life and customs -- History -- To 1500; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics ISBN: 9780520938847 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Body Human -- Social aspects -- Japan; Beauty Personal -- Japan; Beauty culture -- Japan; Body image -- Japan; Philosophy Japanese; Japan -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan ISBN: 9780824837204 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Pets -- Death -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Pets -- Funeral customs and rites -- Japan; Buddhist memorial rites and ceremonies -- Japan; Human-animal relationships -- Japan; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Coffee Life in Japan ISBN: 9780520952485 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Coffee -- Social aspects -- Japan; Coffeehouses -- Social aspects -- Japan; Popular culture -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945 ISBN: 9780700621958 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kansas Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: World War 1939–1945 -- Social aspects -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1912–1945; World War 1939–1945 -- Japan; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Doing Fieldwork in Japan ISBN: 9780824862237 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Ethnology -- Japan -- Field work; Anthropologists -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel ISBN: 9780813548302 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Pregnancy -- Japan; Pregnancy -- Israel; Pregnant women -- Medical care -- Japan; Pregnant women -- Medical care -- Israel; Medical anthropology -- Japan; Medical anthropology -- Israel; Japan -- Social life and customs; Israel -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Ōyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan ISBN: 9781684174690 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mountain worship -- Japan -- Oyama (Kanagawa-ken); Oyama (Kanagawa-ken Japan) -- Religious life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan ISBN: 9780824838348 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Buddhism -- Japan -- Customs and practices; Buddhism and social problems -- Japan; Buddhism -- Social aspects -- Japan; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan ISBN: 9780824862503 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Sexual ethics -- Japan -- History; Social values -- Japan -- History; Women -- Japan -- Social conditions; Sex role -- Japan -- History; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1600–1868; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600–1868; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan ISBN: 9780520947658 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Food -- Social aspects -- Japan; Food habits -- Japan; Cookery Japanese -- Social aspects; Japan -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History ISBN: 9780824838270 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Japan -- History -- Meiji period 1868–1912; Japan -- Civilization -- Western influences; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1868–1912; Nationalism -- Japan; Japan -- Historiography; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Guardians of the Buddha’s Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū ISBN: 9780824866952 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Shin (Sect) -- Japan -- Customs and practices -- Case studies; Women in Buddhism -- Japan -- Case studies; Buddhist women -- Religious life -- Japan -- Case studies; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880–1930 ISBN: 9781684173846 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Architecture Domestic -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1868-1912; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1912–1945; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Japan and The Illustrated London News ISBN: 9789004213579 Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Greek literature; Written communication; Mourning customs in literature.; Grief in literature.; Literacy; Death in literature.; Funeral rites and ceremonies.; Greek literature.; Grief in literature.; Literacy.; Manners and customs.; Mourning customs.; Mourning customs in literature.; Written communication.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
![]() | Japan in Art and Industry: With a Glance at Japanese Manners and Customs ISBN: 9781139814553 Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Cambridge University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
![]() | Japan Why It Works, Why It Doesn''t: Economics in Everyday Life ISBN: 9780824863050 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1945–; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1945–; National characteristics Japanese; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Japan, A View from the Bath ISBN: 9780824863067 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Bathing customs -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Japan, A View from the Bath ISBN: 9780824863067 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Bathing customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Japanese Tourism: Spaces, Places and Structures ISBN: 9781782380764 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Berghahn Books Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Japanese -- Travel -- Foreign countries -- History; Tourism -- Japan -- History; Japan -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | License to Play: The Ludic in Japanese Culture ISBN: 9780824847883 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Play -- Japan -- History; Leisure -- Japan -- History; Japan -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Lovesick Japan ISBN: 9780801461026 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Divorce; Marriage; Love; Sex customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Lovesick Japan: Sex * Marriage * Romance * Law ISBN: 9780801461026 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Sex customs -- Japan; Love -- Japan; Marriage -- Japan; Divorce -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard,by an Edo Samurai ISBN: 9780231535977 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600–1868; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1600–1868; Social classes -- Japan -- History -- 19th century; Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1600–1868; Japan -- Moral conditions -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950 ISBN: 9780520953611 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Japan -- Population -- History; Fertility human -- Japan -- History; Infanticide -- Japan -- History; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600–1868; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan ISBN: 9780520949492 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Etiquette -- Japan; Sex role -- Japan; Power (Social sciences) -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination ISBN: 9780520938991 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Toys -- Japan; Games -- Japan; Animated films -- Japan; Video games -- Japan; Consumer goods -- Japan; Toy industry -- Japan; Toys -- Japan -- Marketing; Philosophy Japanese; Japan -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Okinawa and the U.S. Military: Identity Making in the Age of Globalization ISBN: 9780231511148 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Military bases American -- Japan -- Okinawa-ken -- Public opinion; Nationalism -- Japan -- Okinawa-ken; Okinawa-ken (Japan) -- Politics and government; Okinawa-ken (Japan) -- Social life and customs; Military offenses -- Japan -- Okinawa-ken; United Stat; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Passport Japan : Your Pocket Guide to Japanese Business, Customs and Etiquette ISBN: 9781885073174 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / World Trade Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Social Science; Business/ Management; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
![]() | Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan ISBN: 9780824864002 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Japan -- Religious life and customs; Reward (Theology); Reward (Buddhism); Reward (Shinto); Goriyaku; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Puppets of Nostalgia: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese @quot;Awaji Ningyo@quot; Tradition: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyō Tradition ISBN: 9781400872954 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Puppet theater -- Japan -- Awaji Island; Performing arts -- Religious aspects; Japan -- Religious life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan ISBN: 9780824867652 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Death -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism -- History; Buddhism -- Japan -- Customs and practices -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Ritual Practice in Modern Japan: Ordering Place, People, and Action ISBN: 9780824874513 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Rites and ceremonies -- Japan -- Kamakura-shi; Festivals -- Japan -- Kamakura-shi; Fasts and feasts -- Japan -- Kamakura-shi; Kamakura-shi (Japan) -- Religious life and customs; Kamakura-shi (Japan) -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Secrecy''s Power: Covert Shin Buddhists in Japan and Contradictions of Concealment ISBN: 9780824851347 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Shin (Sect) -- Japan -- Customs and practices; Shin Buddhists -- Japan; Secrecy -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Shinto Shrines: A Guide to the Sacred Sites of Japan''s Ancient Religion ISBN: 9780824837754 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Shinto shrines -- Japan -- Guidebooks; Shinto -- Customs and practices; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability ISBN: 9780824857363 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Japan -- History -- Azuchi-Momoyama period 1568–1603; Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period 1600–1868; Material culture -- Political aspects -- Japan; Samurai -- Social life and customs; Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543–1616; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion ISBN: 9780520951433 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Taiko -- Japan -- History; Taiko (Drum ensemble) -- Japan -- History; Music -- Japan; Musical instruments -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The First European Description of Japan, 1585: A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J. ISBN: 9781315852140 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Social Sciences; Asian Studies; History; Religion; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Asian History; Religious History; Japanese Studies; Early Modern History 1500-1750; Religious History; Regional Anthropology; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Japanese Self in Cultural Logic ISBN: 9780824864798 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Ethnology -- Japan; Ethnopsychology -- Japan; National characteristics Japanese; Self-perception -- Japan; Identity (Psychology) -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community ISBN: 9780824864996 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Japan -- Social life and customs; Festivals -- Japan; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze ISBN: 9780520958371 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Ramen (Cooking -- Japan -- History; Japan -- Social life and customs -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Village “Contracts@quot; in Tokugawa Japan: Fifty Specimens with English Translations and Comments ISBN: 9780295803999 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Contracts -- Japan -- Sources; Villages -- Japan -- History; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600–1868; ■ Detailed Information |