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JAPANKIT: society, history, and the arts

Books, plays, and magazines

Folktales and other stories:

The Bracelet (Japanese-Americans)
Flowers from Mariko (Japanese-Americans)
Grandfather's Journey (Japanese-Americans)
The Journey (Japanese-Americans)

Informative:

A to Zen
Count Your Way Through Japan
Focus on Rice Feeding a Hungry World (curriculum unit from SPICE)
Japan - The Culture (performing traditions)
Japan - The Land
Japan - Places & People (geography & history)
Japan - The People
Katsura Imperial Villa (design)
Konnichiwa (Japanese-Americans)
Passage to Freedom (WWII aid to Jews)
The Samurai Warriors
Suki's Kimono (Japanese expatriots sojourning in USA)

Periodicals:

Tachibana #29 (flower arranging)

Other printed materials:

Packet of fashion related materials
Packet of travel brochures around Japan


Videotapes

Big Bird in Japan
US-Japanese Relations (accompanies SPICE binder pt. 1 & 2, above)


Posters, maps, decorations, and artwork

Poster with kimono (child going to the 7-5-3 ceremony at a Shinto shrine)
Poster of a Japanese garden
Poster of Yasaka Pagoda at Hokanji Temple, Kyoto (Buddhist temple)
Brush painted panel board (flower scene)
Furoshiki (colorful cloth to tie & carry bundles)

Laminated map of Japan
Desk maps (set of 10): East Asia & Japan

Mini-daruma (paper maché red head)
Mini-koi nobori (carp streamers) on plastic pole
Set of two wooden kokeshi (armless and legless dolls)
Mini-folding screen for emperor/empress dolls
Woodblock prints

Music recordings

Music cassette, "ganbateando" (Japanese + Spanish) (cassette tape)
Music cassette, Buddhist chants (cassette tape)
The Rise of Modern Japan (compact disc)


Other items

Bowl for miso shiru (staple soup)
Bowl for rice & bag of unhulled 'brown' rice

 

 
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