After "The Tale of Genji" (c. 1000), the greatest work of classical Japanese literature is the historical narrative "The Tale of the Heike" (13th-14th centuries). In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on the "Heike" narratives, this study also draws attention to a range of problems centered on the interrelationship between narrative, ritual space, and Japan's changing views of China as they bear on depictions of the emperor's authority, warriors, and marginal population going all the way back to the Nara period. By situating the "Heike" in this long temporal framework, the author sheds light on a hidden history of royal authority that was entangled in Daoist and yin-yang ideas in the Nara period, practices centered on defilement in the Heian period, and Buddhist doctrines pertaining to original enlightenment in the medieval period, all of which resurface and combine in "Heike's" narrative world. In introducing for the first time the full range of "Heike" narrative to students and scholars of Japanese literature, the author argues that we must also reexamine our understanding of the literature, ritual, and culture of the Heian and Nara periods.

The Ten Kings hanging scrolls at Tokyo's Seikado Bunko Art Museum are among the most resplendent renderings of the Buddhist purgatory extant, but their origin and significance have yet to be fully explored. Cheeyun Kwon unfurls this exquisite set of scrolls within the existing Ten Kings painting tradition while investigating textual, scriptural, archaeological, and visual materials from East Asia to shed light on its possible provenance. She constructs a model scheme of the paintings' evolution based on more than five hundred works and reveals channels of popularization, mass production, and agglomeration.
The earliest images of the Ten Kings are found in the tenth-century sutra The Scripture of the Ten Kings, known to be the work of the monk Zangchuan. By the mid-twelfth century, typological conventions associated with the Ten Kings were widely established, and paintings depicting them, primarily large-scale and stand-alone, became popular export commodities, spreading via land and sea routes to the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago. An examination of materials in Korea suggests a unique development path for Ten Kings subject matter, and this-in conjunction with a close analysis of the Seikado paintings-forms the core of Kwon's book. Among the Korean works discussed is a woodblock edition of The Scripture of the Ten Kings from 1246. It is markedly different from its Chinese counterparts and provides strong evidence of the subject's permutations during the Koryo period (918-1392), when Northern Song (960-1127) visual art and culture were avidly imported. In the Seikado paintings, Northern Song figural, architectural, landscape, and decorative elements were acculturated to the Koryo milieu, situating them in the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries and among the oldest and most significant surviving examples of Koryo Buddhist painting.
Efficacious Underworld fills major lacunae in Korean, East Asian, and Ten Kings painting traditions while illuminating Korea's contribution to the evolution of a Buddhist theme on its trajectory across East Asia. With its rich set of color reproductions and detailed analysis of textual and visual materials, this volume will invite significant revision to previously held notions on Koryo painting.

Thanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. Yet how did information become so central to our everyday lives, and how did its processing and storage make our data-driven era possible? This volume is the first to consider these questions in comprehensive detail, tracing the global emergence of information practices, technologies, and more, from the premodern era to the present. With entries spanning archivists to algorithms and scribes to surveilling, this is the ultimate reference on how information has shaped and been shaped by societies.
Written by an international team of experts, the book’s inspired and original long- and short-form contributions reconstruct the rise of human approaches to creating, managing, and sharing facts and knowledge. Thirteen full-length chapters discuss the role of information in pivotal epochs and regions, with chief emphasis on Europe and North America, but also substantive treatment of other parts of the world as well as current global interconnections. More than 100 alphabetical entries follow, focusing on specific tools, methods, and concepts—from ancient coins to the office memo, and censorship to plagiarism. The result is a wide-ranging, deeply immersive collection that will appeal to anyone drawn to the story behind our modern mania for an informed existence.
Tells the story of information’s rise from 1450 through to today
Covers a range of eras and regions, including the medieval Islamic world, late imperial East Asia, early modern and modern Europe, and modern North America
Includes 100 concise articles on wide-ranging topics:
Concepts: data, intellectual property, privacy
Formats and genres: books, databases, maps, newspapers, scrolls and rolls, social media
People: archivists, diplomats and spies, readers, secretaries, teachers
Practices: censorship, forecasting, learning, political reporting, translating
Processes: digitization, quantification, storage and search
Systems: bureaucracy, platforms, telecommunications
Technologies: cameras, computers, lithography
Provides an informative glossary, suggested further reading (a short bibliography accompanies each entry), and a detailed index

《染色季：充满生机的植物染色》以季节为划分，介绍了从常见的蔬果、花卉、树木和草中可获得的丰富的植物染料，并为我们展示了很多操作性极强的染色项目。
美国知名植物染色专家、织物艺术家、设计师及纺织品设计教授萨莎•迪尔使用可持续的方法和手工艺技巧，详细介绍了植物染色的方方面面，从基础知识、染色过程、工具和技法，到安全与环境保护方面的指导与建议。
无论对初学者还是富有经验的染色师，萨莎•迪尔所提供的清晰简单的成分列表、步骤详细的指导，以及在技术方面的突破，将让每一位读者都收获美丽。本书将为时尚达人、家居设计师、织物爱好者，以及每一个希望为生活添加更多丰富色彩的人提供无限灵感。

絞り染めは、布をくくったり、縫い締めたりして、その部分に染料が入らないようにして様々な文様を染め出す染織技法のひとつです。絞り染めは、文様を染め出す技法としては、比較的、原始的な方法であり、日本はもちろん世界各地にも存在しています。日本の歴史も古く、明治の初期にはすでに100を超える技法があったといわれています。本書では、日本の絞り染めをテーマに、杢目絞り、折り縫い絞り、日の出絞り…など、様々な絞り染めの技法を紹介した技法書です。また、絞り染めの歴史や、江戸~昭和の全国各地の絞り染めの着物、藍染めについてなど、絞り染めに関わる資料的な価値の高い情報も盛りだくさん紹介している、まさに決定版的な書籍といえます。

“建筑史诗”由建筑学者王南撰写，拟出版四卷二十四册（已出版九册），内容涉及汉、唐、宋、元、明、清、东西罗马、中世纪、文艺复兴等古今中外的建筑，每册用几万字、上百幅图片的篇幅，以深入浅出的文风和丰富详实的资料，写透一座建筑或一组典型建筑及其血脉传承，纵横捭阖，条分缕析，向读者勾勒一幅恢弘的建筑史画卷。
《金色天国》是“建筑史诗”系列第一卷第五本，原载于《读库1501》（已绝版）。王南从君士坦丁堡的建城落笔，梳理了从早期基督教堂到经典东正教教堂形制的转变过程。拜占庭建筑独具一格，它不仅上承古希腊、古罗马的建筑文化精髓，而且融合了东方建筑的一些独特元素。许多建筑杰作留存至今，圣索菲亚大教堂便是其中的典型代表：巨大而精美的圣殿、金碧辉煌的圣像，令它散发出无可抵挡的特殊魅力；同时，它也是罗马建筑与此后建筑之间的重要桥梁，对后世影响至深。
此次单行本出版，除做必要的文字修订外，还增补替换部分图片，令阅读体验更佳。即使是对建筑全无了解的读者，也能通过王南深入浅出的文字与排版得宜的图片感受到拜占庭建筑之美。书末列出了详细的参考文献，可供延伸阅读。一手可握的大小，方便随身携带、轻松阅读，也便于加入行囊，按图索骥寻访书中的相关建筑。
本书适合与“建筑史诗”系列第一卷中的《万神殿堂》（介绍古罗马建筑）和第二卷中的《修道圣所》（介绍中世纪罗曼建筑）参照阅读，了解西方建筑的发展历程。

编辑推荐：
1、日本国宝级生态摄影师星野道夫：不仅是一位生态摄影师，也是一位旅行作家，旅居北极二十年，创作了大量摄影与文学作品，曾获“摄影界的芥川奖”——木村伊兵卫摄影奖。
2、33段邂逅，33个故事，33篇旅行手记：精选星野道夫1993-1995年间的33篇旅行随笔，棕熊、驯鹿、座头鲸，还有几位老酋长……旅行途中邂逅的人，会在今后的人生中画出怎样的地图？通过旅行，找到答案。
3、六十四开文库本，日本古版书纸印刷：星野道夫自然文库系列三书，开本小巧，顺纹易翻；通勤旅行，熨帖称手；专色封面，醒目耐磨。熊伴野趣，雪映清凉，身未动，心已远。
内容简介：
以记录美丽而严酷的极北之地阿拉斯加而闻名的星野道夫，不仅是一位生态摄影师，还是一位旅行作家。《旅行之木》精选星野道夫创作于1993—1995年的33篇随笔。它们发表于作者成名伊始，33篇旅行手记，也是33个故事，33段邂逅。对作者而言，旅行路上邂逅的人会在今后的人生中画出怎样的地图，总归是想要了解的。通过旅行，找到答案，安静而意味深长地记录了下来，写成书，是“幸福汇报”。星野道夫的文字，有种“告别了某种人生”的人所特有的温柔，本书让我们能够与他并肩看到许许多多的风景。

“我们所追求的完美是我们的桎梏，因为不可预知性总会伴随着我们创造出的每一样东西！”
他们是伟大的发明家，从人格交换机到末世论改造机，无所不造。
他们不仅要一起面对宇宙中无解的难题，还要为谁是更强的发明家争得你死我活。
他们是特鲁勒和克拉帕乌丘斯，别称：机器人大师。
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Daoists pay close attention to all different modes and dimensions of time as defined by planetary movements in nature and various man-made calendar divisions, including also the hexagrams of the Yijing. Beyond this, they also work with time in the human body, linking certain features to stages of life and creating temporal rhythms by their own physical actions. They revert the flow of entropy within the body, establishing mastery over time, and transfigure their very physical constitution to subtler levels, opening ways to transcend time altogether.
This volume brings together senior and junior scholars as well as practitioners to explore planetary, calendar, and body time. They cover the entire history of Daoism, from its precursors in the Han to its monastic and popular activation in the 21st century, as well as a plethora of different methods—social predictions, personal horoscopes, physigonomy, healing modalities, qigong, self-cultivation, internal alchemy, and more. Opening new ways of looking at time and expressing uniquely Daoist features, the volume is path-breaking and highly relevant today. A must for anyone interested in time studies, religious practice, and Chinese culture.

南宋罗泌的《路史》，是一部保存有极为丰富的辑佚资料的神话学著作。本书首次全面且系统地考察了罗泌的家世和《路史》的文献学及神话学价值。考察时，本书以对《路史》文献构成所做的全面细致的梳理为依据，既揭示《路史》文献来源的丰富性及其在辑佚方面的独特价值，又凸显罗泌搜集神话传说资料来构拟上古帝王谱系时，陷于“驳杂而无伦”的困境，非刻意为之，而是受“神话历史”思维的影响所致。

At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used toxic substances to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du—a word carrying a core meaning of “potency”—led practitioners to devise a variety of methods to transform dangerous poisons into effective medicines.
Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the Tang, historian Yan Liu considers how the concept of du was central to how the people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. He also examines the wide range of toxic minerals, plants, and animal products used in classical Chinese pharmacy, including everything from the herb aconite to the popular recreational drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body’s interaction with foreign substances, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful.

《两宋物质文化引论》主要内容：在物质文化领域，宋代文化形象的矛盾性突出地体现，于创新与复古兼济并行的双重性。创新与复古结伴而行、兼济一身的特怕赋予了我国历史上这个文化的“古典”时期以双重的内涵——与复古相系，它作为三代以迄汉唐之历史传统的复兴者，成为后代追寻“古典”文化范式的近晚来源；与创造性相系，它所创立的制度、法式为物质文化的后续发展奠定了基础，成为某种“新”古典的范式来源。于今而论，复古与创新、“古典 ”或“新”古典，这些语词正好触及到了当代器物设计所奋力追求却往往难以企及的设计理想的某些主要方面。这一点使得宋代物质文化格外焕发出一种迷人魅力，引导着研究者将探究的目光投向其历史经验验的方方面面。

"Uses Beijing police archives to present a social and intellectual history of the evolution of markets for and regulation of sexual depictions in today's China, focusing on media markets from c. 1880 to 1940 as a motor for cultural change and linking the Chinese case to global trends"--

Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The state shall enjoy direct, creative access to the real.It's the end of the twenty-third century. Earth has violently self-destructed. Venusia, an experimental off-world colony, survives under the enlightened totalitarianism of the Princeps Crittendon regime. Using industrialized narcotics, holographic entertainment, and memory control, Crittendon has turned Venusia into a self-sustaining system of relative historical inertia. But when mild-mannered junk dealer Rogers Collectibles finds a book about early Venusian history, the colony -- once fully immersed in the present -- begins losing its grip on the real. With his Reality-V girlfriend Martha Dobbs, neuroscop operator Sylvia Yang, his midget friend Niftus Norrington, and a sentient plant, Rogers wages a war to alter the shape of spacetime, and in the process, revisions the whole human (and vegetable) condition.

Beautiful natural dyes from plants found in the wild or grown in your own backyard.
As more and more crafters are discovering, dyeing your own fabric can yield gorgeous colors. Now master dyer Rebecca Burgess identifies 36 plants that will yield beautiful natural shades and shows how easy it is to make the dyes. Pokeweed creates a vibrant magenta, while a range of soft lavender shades is created from elderberries; indigo yields a bright blue, and coyote brush creates stunning sunny yellows.
Gathering Color explains where to find these plants in the wild (and for those that can be grown in your backyard, how to nurture them) and the best time and way to harvest them; maps show the range of each plant in the United States and Canada. For the dyeing itself, Burgess describes the simple equipment needed and provides a master dye recipe. The book is organized seasonally; as an added bonus, each section contains a knitting project using wools colored with dyes from plants harvested during that time of the year. With breathtaking color photographs by Paige Green throughout, Gathering Color is an essential guide to this growing field, for crafters and DIYers; for ecologists and botanists; and for artists, textile designers, and art students.

《传统刺子绣图典》包含直线图案、曲线图案、小针绣三大类，多达93款日式传统风格的刺子绣经典图案。同时书中附有刺子绣基础工艺的详细解说，是一本非常全面、细致的刺子绣大全类手工图书。