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Noraneko Gundan aiueo

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Shelf: 811.5 KUD (@ children's book section) Noraneko Gundan aiueo. by Kudō Noriko.

Tōkyō : Hakusensha, 2017. ISBN: 9784592762096

[24] unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 21 x 21 cm. (Kodomoe no ehon).

Revised and enlarged of the supplementary content of a bimounthly magazine "Kodomoe" 2017 February issue. Text in Japanese, hiragana and katakana only.

#picture books for children #japanese language #hiragana #katakana #jlearner #jteacher

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Jokei tennō

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Shelf: 288.41 KUD Jokei tennō : tennō keifu no genryū. by Kudō Takashi.

Tōkyō : Asahi shinbun shuppan, 2021. ISBN: 9784022951052

179 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm. (Asahi shinsho).

Text in Japanese.

#empresses #kings and rulers #jstudies

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"Saseteitadaku" daikenkyū

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"Why does everyone say ""-saseteitadaku (lit. 'allow me to do something for you') so often? A collection of essays for modern Japanese speakers who are worried about the lack of respect in their speech and end up using the cliché at the sentence-end of their speech. Travelling through time and space, exploring various sources such as dictionaries, stand-up comedy shows, restaurant user review sites and lyrics as the lexicons, the contributors consider the driving force behind the 'one-size-fits-all' attitude in the expression and try to find out what it really is.

Shelf: 815.8 SAS "Saseteitadaku" daikenkyū. edited by Shiina Michi, Takiura Masato.

Tōkyō : Kuroshio Shuppan, 2022. ISBN: 9784874249246

327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references. Text in Japanese.

"Hajimeni. ""Saseteitadaku"" o takakuteki ni nagamete wakatta koto / Shiina Michi.

Tokubetsu kikō. ""Saseteitadaku"" wa keigo taikei no kekkan o oginau / Iima Hiroaki.

Maboroshi no kōen o saigen. Keigo no rekishi shakai gengogaku : Kansai kigen no teitadaku. Koramu. Hyōjungo no shōnyūdō moderu to teitadaku / Inoue Fumio.

Dai 1-shō. Keii zengen : surihette tomaranai keii ga hikiokosu koto. Koramu. Kokoro yasashii Nihonjin? / Takiura Masato.

Dai 2-shō. Temorau no irai yōhō : teitadaku seiritsu e no keiki. Koramu. Ryūkyūgo ni wa ""-teitadaku"" keishiki ga nai!? / Ogino Chisako.

Dai 3-shō. Manzai danwa no ketsumatsuku no kinō to hensen : ""yamesashitemorau wa"" o megutte. Koramu. ""kore o anata ni moratte moraimashō"" : ""agemashō"" ni ataru mōshide hyōgen / Hidaka Mizuho.

Dai 4-shō. ""Saseteitadaku"" no chiikisa wa, dō iu chiikisa na no ka : ""yoron chōsa to ""Taberogu"" chōsa ni miru. Koramu. Niteru karatte yudansuru na yo : Nihongo ""sashiageru"" to Kankokugo ""turida"" / Shioda Takehiro.

Dai 5-shō. San'yosha tsuiseki no kanten kara mita ""sasetemorau"" no kinō. Koramu. Ussē ussē ussē wa : kakareteiru yori mo kenzen desu! / Yamada Toshihiro.

Dai 6-shō. ""Saseteitadaku"" wa naze hitori-gachishita ka? : benefakutibu no hensen ni  miru keii zengen purosesu. Furoku. '""Saseteitadaku"" daikenkyū' made no sokuseki / Takiura Masato, Shiina Michi.

Koramu. ""Saseteitadaku"" no koore kara : ""bikago"" o mezasu keigotachi. Koramu. ""Minasama ga -teitadaku""? ""Minasama ni -teitadaku""? : joshi no shifuto de, nani ga kawaru no ka? / Shiina Michi.

#japanese language #honorific #jteacher #jstudies

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Nagakutsushita no Pippi

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Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.

Shelf: 949.83 LIN 1 (@ children’s book section) Nagakutsushita no Pippi. by Asutoriddo Rindogurēn ; translated by Ōtsuka Yūzō ; illustrations by Sakurai Makoto.

[2nd] Kaihan.

Tōkyō : Iwanami Shoten, 2006. ISBN: 9784001150612

262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. (Rindogurēn sakuhinshū).

Commentary text by Ōtsuka, Yūzō. Translated into Japanese from the Swedish.

#longstocking pippi #juvenile fiction #humorous stories swedish #children's stories #cheerfulness #orphans #jlearner

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Yoake

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Camped for the night by a lake, a boy and his grandfather experience dawn from their row boat.

Shelf: 726.6 SHU (@ children’s book section) Yoake. by Yurī Shuruvittsu ; translated by Seta Teiji.

Tōkyō : Fukuinkan Shoten, 1977. ISBN: 9784834005486

[32] unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm. (Sekai kessaku ehon shirīzu. Amerika no ehon).

Translated into Japanese from the English, hiragana only.

#picture books for children #camping #grand parent and children #grand fathers #sun rising and setting #jlearner #jteacher

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Nemurenai hodo omoshiroi Man'yōshū

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Shelf: 911.12 ITA Nemurenai hodo omoshiroi Man'yōshū. by Itano Hiroyuki.

Tōkyō : Mikasa Shobō, 2019. ISBN: 9784837969020

[270] pages : illustrations, map ; 15 cm. (Ōsama bunko).

Includes bibliographical references on page [270]. Text in Japanese.

" "Man'yōshū - History and criticism (万葉集 - History and criticism) Japanese poetry - To 794 - History and criticism" 21 Apr 2023

#man'yōshū #history and criticism #japanese poetry #to 794 #jstudies

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Bokenshatachi

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Gamba, a brown rat, and his friends travel to Yumemi Island to help the island rats in their fight against the weasels. However, they are attacked by Noroi, the deadly white weasel, and Gamba and his friends fight to the best of their wisdom and strength.

Shelf: 913.6 SAI 2 (@ children’s book section) Bōkenshatachi : Ganba to jūgohiki no nakama. by Saitō Atsuo saku ; illustrations by Yabuuchi Masayuki.

Kaihan. Tōkyō : Iwanami Shoten, 2008. ISBN: 9784001105278

380 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

#juvenile fiction #rattus norvegicus #children's stories #jlearner

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Kyoto stories

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Don Ascher is a young American living in Kyoto in the 1970s. He is a student of Japanese. He also teaches English, works at a shabu-shabu restaurant, and hangs out in the company of gangsters, hostesses, housewives, tea teachers, and fellow foreigners. Set amidst the timeless beauty of the ancient capital and its garish modern entertainments, this collection of fanciful episodes from Don's life is a window into Japanese culture and a chronicle of romance and human connections.

Shelf: 933.7 ALP Kyoto stories. by Steve Alpert.

Berkeley, Calif. : Stone Bridge Press, 2022. ISBN: 9781611720747

295 pages : map ; 21 cm.

#fiction #american students #jcentral

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The flowers of buffoonery

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"The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba-the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age-is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking jokes, and trying to make each other laugh. While No Longer Human delves into the darkest corners of human consciousness, The Flowers of Buffoonery pokes fun at these same emotions: the follies and hardships of youth, of love, and of self-hatred and depression. A glimpse into the lives of a group of outsiders in prewar Japan, The Flowers of Buffoonery is a darkly humorous and fresh addition to Osamu Dazai's masterful and intoxicating oeuvre"-- Provided by publisher.

Shelf: 913.6 DAZ The flowers of buffoonery. by Osamu Dazai ; translated by Sam Bett.

New York : New Directions Books, 2023. ISBN: 9780811234542 (paperback)

96 pages ; 21 cm. (A New Directions paperbook)

#short stories #english translation #suicided behavior #fiction #jcentral

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1-nichi 10-pun shokyū kara hajimeru dokkai 120

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Shelf: 810.783 TSU 1E/2E 1-nichi 10-pun shokyū kara hajimeru dokkai 120 = Japanese reading comprehension for beginners. by Tsuji Kazuko, Katsura Miho.

Tōkyō : Asuku Shuppan, 2020. ISBN: 9784866393612

142 pages : illustrations, charts ; 26 cm. + 1 answer booklet (11 pages ; 26 cm.).

Supplementary contents (audio) are available from the publisher’s web page. Text in Japanese with moderate furigana on kanji characters. English translation on new vocabularies. Spoken word on downloadable MP3 files or streaming audio (Apple Podcast or Spotify) in Japanese.

#japanese language #textbooks for foreign speakers #sound recording for foreign speakers #jlearner #jteacher

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Yamaguchi Akira daigamen sakuhinshū

New item: "A collection of exquisitely realized paintings, including examples of mixed-period 'rakuchū rakugai-zu' paintings of city scenes, and new works of 'fusuma' sliding door painting for Byōdōin Temple, 'musha-e' samurai fight scenes and various sketches. Long awaited, this is the first collection of Yamaguchi's work in eight years. While focusing on the true painterly expressiveness that is Yamaguchi's forte, this groundbreaking new collection also presents his tearoom-parody objets d'art, and his self-produced exhibitions that act as warning signals to the world of contemporary art, thereby providing an excellent overview of the multi-layered thought of Akira Yamaguchi.

Shelf: 723.1 YAM Yamaguchi Akira daigamen sakuhinshū = The big picture. by Yamaguchi Akira ; edited Kamada Eriko.

Tōkyō : Seigensha, 2012. ISBN: 9784861523670

209, 27 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm.

Text in Japanese and English.

Table of contents:

"Nōgaki, chotto bijutsuppoi koto = Self-promotion, something little bit artsy.

Oekaki shōnen, bijutsu, āto ; Oekaki chūnen, kakumekasu (mekasu…?) = Boy sketcher, bijutsu, art ; Middle-aged painter, stylizing this way.

Bijutsu to kōgaku to yūkoku to : Yamaguchi Akira no geijutsu to sono rinen o megutte = Art and engineering and patriotism : on Yamaguchi Akira's art and its idea / Sawaragi Noi.

Kako o kaitaishite gendai e : Yamaguchi Akira no kakū no Nihon = The imaginary Japan of Yamaguchi Alkira / John T. Carpenter.

Ryakureki = Biography.

Bunken mokuroku = Bibliography.

Keisai sakuhin mokuroku = List of works.

#yamaguchi akira #contemporary art #jcentral

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Administering affect

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"How do the worlds that state administrators manage become the feelings publics embody? In Administering Affect, Daniel White addresses this question by documenting the rise of a new national figure he calls "Pop-Culture Japan." Emerging in the wake of Japan's dramatic economic decline in the early 1990s, Pop-Culture Japan reflected the hopes of Japanese state bureaucrats and political elites seeking to recover their country's standing on the global stage. White argues that due to growing regional competitiveness and geopolitical tension in East Asia in recent decades, Japan's state bureaucrats increasingly targeted political anxiety as a national problem and built a new national image based on pop-culture branding as a remedy." -- Provided by publisher.

Shelf: 319.1 WHI Administering affect : pop-culture Japan and the politics of anxiety. by Daniel White.

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9781503632196 (paperback) ; 9781503630680 (hardcover)

x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239 pages) and index (pages [241]-246).

Table of contents:

Introduction : pop-culture Japan and the circuitry of affect

Soft power : an affective history of the politically possible

Nation branding : the hypernormalization of Cool Japan

Anime diplomacy : characterizing obligatory nationalism

Kawaii diplomacy : ambassadors of cute and the gendering of anxiety

Administering affect : anxiety and the everyday

Conclusion : melancholic belonging and the future of pop-culture Japan.

#popular culture #anxiety #cultural diplomacy #politics and government #cultural policy #jstudies

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Mō okiru kana?

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We see animal parents and their children sleeping comfortably. In what postures do they sleep, and what movement do they make when they wake up? We'll see the samples with a cat parent and child, a dog parent and child, a squirrel parent and child, a bear parent and child, an elephant parent and child. "Are they waking up soon?", let's see them on the next page and say, "Oh, they are waking up!". We see them all yawn, stretch their bodies and look refreshed after good sleep. And everyone yawns, stretches and wakes up feeling good. Turn the page and say, "Oh, I'm awake!" and everyone yawns, stretches and wakes up feeling good. The elephant and his son on the last page also get up and are ready to go out, nose to nose.

Shelf: 726.6 YAB (@ children's book section) Mō okiru kana? texty by Matsuno Masako ; illustrations by Yabuuchi Masayuki.

Tōkyō : Fukuinkan Shoten, 1998. ISBN: 9784834015355

[20] unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 21 x 20 cm. (0.1.2. ehon).

Previously published as content of a monthly magazine "Kodomo no tomo 0.1.2." in 1996. Text in Japanese, hiragana only.

#animals #sleep behavior #juvenile literature #picture books for children #japanese language #tadoku level 0 #jteacher #jlearner

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Pengin taisō

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"Let's start exercises in Penguin's way. Deep breath in and out. Stretch out your neck and squeeze it. Tummy and head snug". Penguins are well-known at aquariums and zoos. This picture book will make you move along with the penguins as you watch their unique and adorable exercises. After reading the picture book, please enjoy doing the exercises with your child.

Shelf 9th: 726.6 SAI (@ children's book section) Pengin taisō. by Saitō Maki.

Tōkyō : Fukuinkan Shoten, 2016. ISBN: 9784834082531

[20] unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 21 x 20 cm. (0.1.2. ehon).

Previously published as content of a mounthly magazine "Kodomo no tomo 0.1.2." in 2013. Text in Japanese, hiragana only.

#penguins #exercise #juvenile fiction #juvenile humor #picture books for children #jlearner #jteacher

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Maruten iroten

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"Red, blue, yellow, purple, green…… The multicoloured circles line up, stick together, get bigger, smaller and become faces. The expressions of the circles change vividly as you turn the pages. The circles painted on the clear white background are designed in such a way that they appear inorganic at first glance. However, if you look at them over and over again, they seem to resonate with each other and start moving at any moment! Enjoy the world of the circles as they spread across the screen.

Shelf: 726.6 NAK (@ children's book section) Maruten iroten. by Nakatsuji Etsuko.

Tōkyō : Fukuinkan Shoten, 2015. ISBN: 9784834081367

[20] unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 21 x 20 cm. (0.1.2. ehon).

Previously published as content of a monthly magazine "Kodomo no tomo 0.1.2." in 2006. Text in Japanese, hiragana only.

"Circle - Juvenile poetry Japanese language - Onomatopoeic words - Juvenile poetry Dots (Art) - Juvenile poetry Japanese language - Rhyme - Juvenile poetry Picture books for children - Japan" 15 Apr 2023

#circle #dots #japanese language #rhyme #onomatopoeic words #juvenile poetry #picture books for children #jteacher #jlearner

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Marukute oishii yo

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"Delicious foods emerge from the silhouette of a circle. Red, yellow and colourful silhouettes of circles. Turn the pages and children's favourite cakes, biscuits and cookies, nori-maki, oranges, watermelons and more appear. The silhouettes of round, tasty things stimulate the imagination: ""What kind of things are hidden here?"" and stimulate children's imaginations. After reading this book, you may want to look for round things around you.

Shelf: 596 KON Marukute oishii yo by Konishi Eiko.

Tōkyō : Fukuinkan Shoten, 1999. ISBN: 9784834016086

[20] unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 21 x 20 cm. (0.1.2. ehon).

Previously published as content of a monthly magazine "Kodomo no tomo 0.1.2." in 1996. Text in Japanese, hiragana only.

#circle #silhouettes #food #juvenile literature #picture books for children #jteacher #jlearner

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Gobugobu gobogobo

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"A picture book that shows the joy of onomatopoeia in colour and shape. The sounds and rhythms of Japanese onomatopoeic words such as ""pūn"", ""puku puku puku pukun"", ""pupupu"" and ""gobu gobu gobo gobo"" naturally prompts children to joyful interest towards the sounds and rhythms of the words. The use and combination of bright colours such as orange, red, blue and yellow, and the holes in the pages bring out the energy of the pictures, and the circles in the motifs look as if they are really moving. This is a picture book with wondrous circle motifs that you will want to look at again and again.

Shelf: 814.35 KOM (@ children's book section) Gobugobu gobogobo. by Komagata Katsumi.

Tōkyō : Fukuinkan Shoten, 1999. ISBN: 9784834015980

[20] unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 21 x 20 cm. (0.1.2. ehon).

Previously published as content of a monthly magazine "Kodomo no tomo 0.1.2." in 1997. Text in Japanese, hiragana only.

#picture books for children #stencil books #circle #juvenile poetry #japanese language #onomatopoeic words #bubbles #jteacher #jlearner