[audiobook] Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course: Sight Reading Book; Level 1 by E. L. Lancaster in Arts-Photography

Description

The private collections of longtime Japan resident and expert on modern Japanese culture Donald Richie capture the personalities of certain Japanese people--some famous; some unknown--with insight and humor. This extraordinary collection of individual portraits is perhaps the first book about the Japanese to view them entirely unhindered by the various theories about themmdash;people as complicated; as simple; as inscrutable; and as understandable as anyone else. In these fiftyndash;four pieces there are both the famousmdash;Mishima; Kawabata; Mifune; Kurosawamdash;and the unknown: the wouldndash;be geisha; the exndash;boxer turned gangster; the scheming bar madame and the old man dying alone. Here is the notorious Sada Abe; who mutilated her dead lover and whose story was filmed in Oshimas The Realm of the Senses And here is Oshima himself; dead drunk and making perfect sense; here is the actress who played Abe; exiled in Rome. Here too is the delivery boy who kills himself for love; the girl who loved a Korean; and the actress; a public idol; who suddenly and permanently disappeared from view. And there are dozens of others; individuals who have in common; besides their Japanese nationality; the fact that they knew the author; and that mdash;fortunatly for usmdash;he knew them. This highly personal reminiscences form one of the most original and deeply felt books on Japan ever to appear.