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Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015-2016]
Edition
Revised edition.
Language
English
Description
"Provides a systematic introduction to the basic kanji characters; includes compounds, radicals, readings, stroke counts, and definitions; helpful writing practice guides teach you how to write each kanji; example sentences show how each kanji is used incontext"--Cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edicion: agosto de 2020.
Language
Español
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Description
"A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmarried women, one of whom manipulates the other from afar, by one of Japan's most acclaimed young writers"--
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The method that has helped thousands-Read Japanese Kanji Today provides readers with a quick and simple method to learn kanji characters. Far from being a complex and mysterious script, Japanese writing is actually a simple and fascinating pictographic and ideographic system, easily understood and mastered. With the approach used in this easy-to-read, entertaining kanji book you'll soon be able to recognize and read over 400 kanji, whether or not...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Language
English
Formats
Description
Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark[s] on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, a doctor, takes work at the Truro asylum where she must struggle against the terrible conditions imposed on the patients, the mores of late Victorian society and her own demons.
Author
Publisher
Search Press Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Figures are key to your manga artwork, and bringing character, expression and motion to your drawings will fill them with the energy and life that is core to achieving great results. Covering anatomy, clothing and lighting, as well as faces and proportion, professional manga artist Samantha Gorel helps you delve into the detail to really bring your figures to life."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Search Press Limited
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
28 different characters, poses and expressions that offer a dynamic selection of Manga-style female figures. Drawing girls is a very popular subject within the manga genre and this book is perfect for anyone seeking to learn the basics of creating these delightful characters.
Author
Series
Publisher
Search Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
28 different characters, poses and expressions that offer a dynamic selection of Manga-style male figures. Drawing boys is a very popular subject within the manga genre and this book is perfect for anyone seeking to learn the basics of creating these delightful characters.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Yoshio delights in the everyday sounds of Tokyo, but when a musician tells him that her favorite sound is ma, the Japanese word for silence, Yoshio sets out to hear this sound for himself among the hustle and bustle of the city. Includes information on the Japanese concept of ma.
13) Clockwork apple
Author
Publisher
Digital Manga Inc
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"Osamu Tezuka unleashes several creepy suspenseful short stories in this anthology of speculative fiction spanning the years 1968-1973."--page [4] of cover.
14) Dolls of hope
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When eleven-year-old Chiyo Tamura is sent from her home in a small Japanese mountain village to a girls' school in the city of Tsuchiura, she never imagines that she will soon be in Tokyo helping to welcome more than twelve thousand Friendship Dolls from America--including Emily Grace, a gift to her own school. Nor could she dream that she'd have an important role in the crafting of Miss Tokyo, one of fifty-eight Japanese dolls to be sent to America...
Author
Publisher
Impact
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Everything you need to start drawing manga! ... popular YouTube artist Mina Mistiqarts Petrovic shares with you all the techniques you need to create not just manga figures and faces, but full characters and scenes. After learning the basics for drawing and coloring eyes, hands, feet and other body parts, you'll move on to facial expressions, hair and clothes - the things that will make your characters stand out from the rest. Then, you'll put what...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Amaterasu Takahashi opens the door of her Philadelphia home to a badly scarred man claiming to be her grandson, she doesn't believe him. Her grandson and her daughter, Yuko, perished nearly forty years ago during the bombing of Nagasaki. But the man carries with him a collection of sealed private letters that open a Pandora's Box of family secrets Ama had sworn to leave behind when she fled Japan. She is forced to confront her memories of the...
17) Hunter x hunter
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Shonen Jump advanced manga edition.
Language
English
Description
Hunters are dedicated to tracking down treasures, magical beasts, and other men, but to become a hunter, less than one in a hundred thousand are capable of passing the grueling qualification exams.
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In the mid-1990s, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki moved from success to success as his work found an audience outside of Japan. His animated films of the era, including Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, and Ponyo, were internationally lauded, and Miyazaki won an Academy Award in 2003 for his popular and critical hit Spirited Away. Follow Miyazaki as his vision matures, as cinema-lovers worldwide embrace his creations, and as critics such as Roger...
19) The kingdom
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential Johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them and takes incriminating photos to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the organization she's working for, and is perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, as long as it means she doesn't have to reveal anything about her identity, either....
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