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Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama: architect.
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ISBN: 489737118X Year: 1990 Publisher: Place of publication unknown Rikuyosha Publishing Inc.


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Shin Takamatsu : Kirin Plaza, Osaka Japon
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ISBN: 2907757040 9782907757041 Year: 1989 Publisher: Paris: Demi-Cercle,


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Tadao Ando
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ISBN: 4871402215 9784871402217 Year: 1995 Volume: 1 Publisher: Tokyo: ADA,


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Christian sorcerers on trial
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ISBN: 9780231551885 0231551886 0231196903 0231196911 9780231196901 9780231196918 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York

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"In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the "pernicious creed" of Christianity. Middle-aged widows, the women made a living as mediums, healers, and fortune-tellers. Two of the men dabbled in divination; the third was a doctor who collected books in Chinese on Western learning and Christianity. This was a startling development. No one in Japan had been identified and punished as a Christian for more than a century, and now, avowed devotees of the proscribed sect had appeared in the very heart of the realm. Just decades before the arrival of Perry's black ships and the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate, the incident reignited fears of Christians as evil sorcerers, plotting to undermine society and overthrow the country. Christian Sorcerers on Trial offers annotated translations of a range of sources on this sensational event, from the 1827 arrest of the alleged Christians through the case's afterlife. The protagonists' testimonies relate with striking detail their life histories, practices, and motivations. The record of deliberations in Edo and communications between Osaka and Edo officials illuminate the operation of the Tokugawa system of criminal justice. Retellings of the incident show how the story was transmitted and received. Translated and put in context by Fumiko Miyazaki, Kate Wildman Nakai, and Mark Teeuwen, the sources provide students and scholars alike with an extraordinarily rich picture of late Edo social life, religious practices, and judicial procedures"--


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Tadao Ando : 1988-1993
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ISBN: 4871404196 9784871404198 Year: 1993 Publisher: Tokyo: ADA,


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Osaka Modern
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ISBN: 9780674975187 0674975189 168417578X 9781684175789 Year: 2017 Publisher: Boston Leiden;Boston Harvard University Asia Center BRILL

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"Examines the relationship between local and national orders of space, language, daily practice, etc. in literature, cinema, and other popular culture of the city of Osaka produced during the transwar era, from the 1920s through the 1950s"--


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Digesting metabolism : artificial land in Japan 1954-2202
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ISBN: 9783775746427 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin : Hatje Cantz,

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How can housing better meet people’s diverse and changing needs? Moving away from the focus on capsule architecture that dominates so many studies of Japan’s Metabolist architects, Digesting Metabolism investigates the impact on Japanese housing of Le Corbusier’s idea of “artificial land,” perhaps architecture’s most famous concept that the fewest have heard of. Long buried by the term “megastructure” that it inspired, artificial land joins the individual and collective, envisioning housing as stacked platforms of plots for building freestanding homes of all variety. This book explores in detail eleven Japanese projects that translate this dream of durability combined with flexibility into built reality, illuminating its appeal for a nation whose existing land—from both earthquakes and cost—is highly unstable. First introduced to Japan in 1954 by Le Corbusier’s protégé, Takamasa Yosizaka, artificial land is essential to the Metabolists who debuted in Tokyo in 1960, with it sparking their desire to add “a time factor into city planning.” Yet artificial land has had a hold on Japan’s metabolic imagination well beyond the ‘60s, promising domestic satisfaction and environmental resilience from the postwar period to today’s government policies. Digesting Metabolism uncovers this unique Japanese history and its possible future, finding examples of infrastructure, adaptation, and dweller control that challenge commodified models of housing around the world.

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