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Mysteries in Muscle Contraction

Evidence against Current Dogmas

By: Haruo Sugi

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Mysteries in Muscle Contraction

Evidence against Current Dogmas

By: Haruo Sugi

This book explores the author’s wide-ranging work on muscle research, which spans more than 50 years. It delves into the dogmas of muscle contraction: how the models were constructed and what was overlooked during the process, including their resulting shortcomings. The text stimulates general readers’ and researchers’ interest, highlights the author’s pioneering work on the electron microscopic recording of myosin head power and recovery strokes, and presents a frank discussion on how the original work sometimes tends to be overlooked by competing scientists, who hinder the progress of science.

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1351590480

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Mysteries in Muscle Contraction

Evidence against Current Dogmas

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1351590499

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9781351590495

Classical Japanese

A Grammar

By: Haruo Shirane

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Classical Japanese

A Grammar

By: Haruo Shirane

Classical Japanese: A Grammar is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced students and a textbook for beginning students. The volume, which explains how classical Japanese is related to modern Japanese, includes detailed explanations of basic grammar, including helpful, easy-to-use tables of grammatical forms; annotated excerpts from classical premodern texts. Classical Japanese: A Grammar - Exercise Answers and Tables (ISBN: 978-0-231-13530-6) is now available for purchase as a separate volume.

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Columbia University Press

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0231509464

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9780231509466

The Tales of the Heike

By: Burton Watson,Haruo Shirane

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The Tales of the Heike

By: Burton Watson,Haruo Shirane

The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese history. The Tales of the Heike focuses on the lives of both the samurai warriors who fought for two powerful twelfth-century Japanese clans-the Heike (Taira) and the Genji (Minamoto)-and the women with whom they were intimately connected. The Tales of the Heike provides a dramatic window onto the emerging world of the medieval samurai and recounts in absorbing detail the chaos of the battlefield, the intrigue of the imperial court, and the gradual loss of a courtly tradition. The book is also highly religious and Buddhist in its orientation, taking up such issues as impermanence, karmic retribution, attachment, and renunciation, which dominated the Japanese imagination in the medieval period. In this new, abridged translation, Burton Watson offers a gripping rendering of the work's most memorable episodes. Particular to this translation are the introduction by Haruo Shirane, the woodblock illustrations, a glossary of characters, and an extended bibliography.

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Columbia University Press

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0231510837

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9780231510837

The Book of Sake

A Connoisseur's Guide

By: Philip Harper,Haruo Matsuzaki

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The Book of Sake

A Connoisseur's Guide

By: Philip Harper,Haruo Matsuzaki

Once found only in sushi bars and Japanese restaurants, Sake now lines the shelves of gourmet food shops, supermarkets and restaurants of all persuasions, listed alongside the customary wine selections. Written by a Sake brewmaster, this book shows how to select a good sake and how to match an evening's selection with food. Once found only in sushi bars and Japanese restaurants, Sake now lines the shelves of gourmet food shops, supermarkets and restaurants of all persuasions, listed alongside the customary wine selections. With demand on the rise, the timing of The Book

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Kodansha International

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4770029985

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9784770029980

Traditional Japanese Literature

An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, Abridged Edition

By: Haruo Shirane

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Traditional Japanese Literature

An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, Abridged Edition

By: Haruo Shirane

Haruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of Genji, The Tales of the Heike, The Pillow Book, the Man'yoshu, and the Kokinshu. He preserves his comprehensive survey of secular and religious anecdotes (setsuwa) as well as classical poems with extensive commentary. He features no drama; selections from influential war epics; and notable essays on poetry, fiction, history, and religion. Texts are interwoven to bring into focus common themes, styles, and allusions while inviting comparison and debate. The result is a rich encounter with ancient and medieval Japanese culture and history. Each text and genre is enhanced by extensive introductions that provide sociopolitical and cultural context. The anthology is organized by period, genre, and topic—an instructor-friendly structure—and a comprehensive bibliography guides readers toward further study. Praise for Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 "Haruo Shirane has done a splendid job at this herculean task."—Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia "A comprehensive and innovative anthology.... All of the introductions are excellent."—Journal of Asian Studies "One of those impressive, erudite, must-have titles for anyone interested in Asian literature."—Bloomsbury Review "An anthology that comprises superb translations of an exceptionally wide range of texts.... Highly recommended."—Choice "A wealth of material."—Monumenta Nipponica

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Columbia University Press

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0231504535

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9780231504539

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

Nature, Literature, and the Arts

By: Haruo Shirane

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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

Nature, Literature, and the Arts

By: Haruo Shirane

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Shirane discusses textual, cultivated, material, performative, and gastronomic representations of nature. He reveals how this kind of 'secondary nature, ' which flourished in Japan's urban environment, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment when it began to recede from view. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane also clarifies the use of natural and seasonal topics as well as the changes in their cultural associations and functions across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world."--Back cover.

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Columbia University Press

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0231152817

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Book's by Haruo Sugi

Mysteries in Muscle Contraction

Mysteries in Muscle Contraction

Mysteries in Muscle Contraction

Mysteries in Muscle Contraction

Classical Japanese

Classical Japanese

The Tales of the Heike

The Tales of the Heike

The Book of Sake

The Book of Sake

Traditional Japanese Literature

Traditional Japanese Literature

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

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