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  • TŌKYŌ by RAIN
    William De Lange
    In the quiet chaos of Tokyo, where neon dreams drip from the sky like ink from a poet’s pen, there exists a cityscape veiled in the silver threads of rain.Tōkyō by Rain is not just a photobook; it is an intimate whisper of the city’s soul, captured in the fleeting moments between the raindrops and the streets they kiss.Each photograph is a haiku, a pause in the relentless rhyth...
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    25,86 €

  • Walking the Edo Sanpu
    William De Lange
    For more than two and a half centuries Dutch merchants in Japan were confined to the fan-shaped island of Dejima in the Bay of Nagasaki. Only once a year were they allowed to leave their golden cage to embar­k on the Edo Sanpu, a 1000-mile journey to present-day Tokyo in order to pay their respects to the shōgun, Japan’s absolute ruler.Four of them-Engelbert Kaempfer, Philipp F...
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    17,77 €

  • Japan Then & Now
    William De Lange
    Japan over the last two and a half centuries has changed almost beyond recognition. Almost, that is, ’for every now and then one catches one’s breath, stunned by how well-preserved a place or building is, creating the impression that past and present perfectly overlap.’Much in Japan has been lost, either as the result of devastating earthquakes, the ravages of war, ill-advised ...
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    38,52 €

  • A History of Japanese Journalism
    William De Lange
    The history of Japanese Journalism, though relatively short, is marked by periods of great upheaval and radical change. It began during the two centuries of seclusion, when Dutch traders confined to the port of Nagasaki, through a small army of Japanese hereditary interpreters, conveyed information to the bakufu authorities about the outside world. All that changed during the b...
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    28,40 €

  • Samurai Sieges
    William De Lange
    Known from his collaboration on the Netflix documentary Age of Samurai, historian William de Lange returns to what he does best: highly anecdotal stories from one of the most exciting episodes in Japanese history: the Warring States period.De Lange takes the reader right back to the 16th century’s closing decades. In the course of the ensuing journey, we witness the major siege...
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    46,90 €

  • The Illustrated History of the Yagyu Clan
    William De Lange
    The Yagyū clan stands out among Japan’s countless medieval warrior clans as a clan renowned for its mastery of the art of swordsmanship. This first, fuly illustratedl Yagyū history in the English language recounts how, through a string of misfortunes beyond their control, the Yagyū clan first lost its independence, then its castle and domains, until finally its members were thr...
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    46,22 €

  • Musashi
    William De Lange
    Miyamoto Musashi, the Japanese swordsman of unparalleled skill, is known around the world today. Yet his life still poses a large number of important questions that remain elusive: Where was he born? Who was his father? Who was his mother? Who were his children? Who were his benefactors? In which battles did he fight? With whom did he duel? Where did he live? Who were his frien...
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    24,06 €

  • Die außergewöhnliche Geschichte des Yagyu-Clans
    William De Lange / Gregor Lechner
    Dieses Buch erzählt die vollständige Geschich­te der Yagyū, die durch eine Reihe von unverschuldeten Unglücken zuerst ihre Unabhängigkeit, dann ihre Burg und ihr Lehen verloren und schließlich der Gnade eines örtlichen Tempels unterworfen waren. Doch es war in diesen trostlosen und hoffnungslosen Jahren, das ihr Anführer, Yagyū Muneyoshi, seine wahre Stärke entdeckte und mit de...
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    35,36 €

  • The Namamugi Incident
    William De Lange
    On 14 September 1862, four Brits encountered the procession of the nobleman Shimazu Hisamitsu at a village called Namamugi along Japan’s ancient Tōkaidō highroad. One of them, the Shanghai trader Charles Lenox Richardson, would not survive to tell the tale. Richardson’s death eventually led to the Anglo-Satsuma War.The Namamugi Incident, as it has come to be known in Japan and ...
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    28,28 €

  • A Fool’s Return
    William De Lange
    “When I walked into the office on Monday morning I knew my reputation was in shatters.”Walking Japan’s coastal route in search of beauty, William de Lange encounters a string of local characters. Recording their stories, he braids a travelogue deftly interwoven with his own experiences since he first set foot in Japan some thirty years ago.A sequel to A Fool’s Journey, A Fool’s ...
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    18,36 €

  • Samurai Battles
    William De Lange
    Known from his collaboration on the Netflix documentary Age of Samurai, historian William de Lange returns to what he does best: highly anecdotal stories from one of the most exciting episodes in Japanese history: the Warring States period.De Lange takes the reader right back to the 16th century’s closing decades. In the course of the ensuing journey we witness the major battle...
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    47,01 €

  • The Remarkable History of the Yagyu Clan
    William De Lange
    This is the true story of the eventful history of the famous Yagyū clan—a story that began during the early heady days of the Genkō Rebellion (1331–33), when emperor Go-Daigo sought to restore power to the throne with the support of the Yagyū and other loyal clans. It follows their campaigns on behalf of Go-Daigo's southern court during the Northern and Southern Courts peri...
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    37,76 €

  • Miyamoto Musashi
    William De Lange / Gregor Lechner
    Dies ist der gelungene Versuch uns der historischen Person Miyamoto Musashi, Japans berühmtesten Schwertkämpfer, zu nähern. W. de Lange forschte in Japan in den unterschiedlichsten Archiven akribisch nach Quellen über M. Musashi, übersetzte diese und fügte sie zu einer realistischen Biografie zusammen, die sowohl den Lebensweg des legendären Schwertkämpfers, als auch die kriege...
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    37,42 €

  • Hearn’s Japan
    Lafcadio Hearn / William De Lange
    'Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index...and beautiful layout to boot.'Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), the son of an Irish Surgeon-Major and a Greek woman of noble lineage, who settled in Japan after a checkered career in journalism in Cincinnati and New Orleans, is still considered by many the most astute...
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    25,11 €

  • A Fool’s Journey
    William De Lange
    “I had been here before: I was going from being a mere ‘interpreter’ to being a ‘cultural interpreter.’ It was a dangerous path to tread.”Walking Japan's ancient inland route in search of a vague romantic notion, the author encounters a string of idiosyncratic characters, locals with a story to tell. Recording their stories, the author braids a travelogue deftly interwoven ...
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    18,35 €

  • Miyamoto Musashi
    William De Lange
    THE FIRST FULLY ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF JAPAN'S GREATEST SWORDSMANMiyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) is the most celebrated swordsman in Japanese history. Yet few of the many works on the enigmatic warrior have hewn to the original sources. Fewer still have explored the emotional turmoil that drove him on to be the very best in his field.A Life in Arms debunks many of the conven...
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    63,27 €

  • Famous Samurai
    William De Lange
    The Two Courts Period (1333-92) was a turning point in Japan’s medieval era-a time when an unbridgeable rift appeared in the fragile fabric of Japanese feudal society. On each side stood a separate imperial court, each with its own army and its own agenda. As the schism deepened and the positions hardened, one by one clans and domains were rent asunder until each and every man ...
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    48,03 €

  • Famous Samurai
    William De Lange
    The Warring States period (1467-1568) was the most destructive in Japan’s long history of civil strife. It began when the dearly won supremacy of the Ashikaga clan was squandered by a weak and indecisive ruler, allowing the jealous rivalry between local warlords to spiral irrevocably out of control. It was a time when thousands upon thousands of warriors either perished on the ...
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    48,03 €

  • Famous Samurai
    William De Lange
    The Two Courts Period (1333-92) was a turning point in Japan’s medieval era-a time when an unbridgeable rift appeared in the fragile fabric of Japanese feudal society. On each side stood a separate imperial court, each with its own army and its own agenda. As the schism deepened and the positions hardened, one by one clans and domains were rent asunder until each and every man ...
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    48,03 €

  • The Real Musashi
    William De Lange
    Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645) is the most revered and celebrated swordsman in Japanese history; unfortunately, our modern portrait of this folk hero is derived mainly from popular books, comics, and film, with little heed paid to the early records by men who knew Musashi, practiced with Musashi, and went into battle with Musashi.Spanning a period of more than a decade, the au...
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    38,40 €