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	Ryotaro Shiba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ryotaro Shiba (司馬遼太郎 Shiba Ryōtarō), born Tei'ichi Fukuda (福田定一 Fukuda Tei'ichi, August 7, 1923 - February 12, 1996) in Osaka, is best known for his historical novels and essays on history and culture of Japan, China, and Korea.
		Shiba was a prolific author who frequently wrote about the dramatic change Japan went through during the late Edo and early Meiji periods.
		Shiba is widely appreciated for the originality of his analyses of historical events, and many people in Japan have read at least one of his works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ryotaro_Shiba (513 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu: Books: Ryotaro Shiba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As the late Shiba admits, the story of Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837-1913) the 15th and last shogun of Japan, is not one that "lends itself easily to retelling" even for those very familiar with the history of the shogunate?the military, as opposed to the civil, government that ruled Japan.
		Ryotaro Shiba has a dramatic, almost hypnotic way of relaying the life of the last shogun, who relinquished his title almost as soon as he received it.
		Ryotaro Shiba does an excellent job of providing all of the pertinent information, but he does an even better job of engaging the reader in the life and inner-workings of Keiki.
	www.amazon.ca /Last-Shogun-Life-Tokugawa-Yoshinobu/dp/1568363567 (896 words)

	Tales of Visionary Adventurers: Japan and the World - Learning from "The Complete Lectures of Ryotaro Shiba" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ryotaro Shiba says that the origin or the cause was the invention of "duty" by the British.
		Ryotaro Shiba continues that the power of the autonomic duty, matching the tide of commerce and industry, allowed the British fleet to win the battle against the Spanish Armada at the Straits of Dover: this was a symbolic war between the values of Catholicism and Protestantism.
		Ryotaro Shiba explains the word "duty" as follows: "It is a fecund spiritual attitude that exudes sufficient degree of self-sacrifice to contribute for the others or for the public interest, which lets you say, 'I do this because this is my duty.'” "Otherwise, capitalism can turn to a lethal weapon", he adds.
	scivax.weblogs.jp /adventurers/2005/08/japan_and_the_w.html (1937 words)

	Drunk as a Lord—Samurai Stories -- book review
		Ryôtarô Shiba was hugely popular in Japan, where he published over 40 books on Japanese history, most in fictionalized form.
		Shiba went unpublished in English and the European languages.
		Shiba’s narrative depicts the last convulsions of dynasty amid the overturn of Japan's ruling structure.
	www.curledup.com /drunkasa.htm (1491 words)

	Four Samurai: last year saw the publication in English of Shiba Ryotaro''s Drunk as a Lord, only the third book ...
		Shiba, who is still tremendously popular in Japan, has opened the door to history for countless people of all ages by producing an impressive oeuvre of stories set primarily in such turbulent historical eras as the Sengoku ("Warring States") period (1467-1568), the waning days of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867) and the Meiji Restoration (1868).
		As a journalist turned novelist, Shiba not only read through a massive amount of materials, but also traveled around the country to breathe the same air that the characters in his novels breathed and to feel their spirit.
		But she also says she enjoyed Shiba's extraordinary command of the rich resources of the Japanese language, his knowledge of history and his profound understanding of human nature.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-1331568_ITM (2711 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu: Books: Ryotaro Shiba,Juliet Winters Carpenter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Shiba's account of Yoshinobu's life is a work of historical fiction that attempts to stay faithful to events and so on as they really happened.
		Shiba's well-researched account of Yoshinobu's career becomes a gripping page-turner (and this really is a history book!).
		Shiba goes to great lengths to emphasize that Yoshinobu foresaw the demise of the shogunate and wanted nothing more than to avoid becoming its leader, yet he finally shouldered the burden.
	www.amazon.com /Last-Shogun-Life-Tokugawa-Yoshinobu/dp/1568362463 (2620 words)

	Ryotaro Shiba: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kato explained that her late husband, a member of the Foreign Ministry and "a great fan of Shiba," was embarrassed at a banquet in Seoul to learn that all the Korean diplomats at his table had read Shiba's latest book, while he had not.
		After Shiba died, the Japan Foundation wanted to see more of his work in English, and Kato was called upon to translate the four stories that make up "Drunk as a Lord" (Yotte Soro), published last year by Kodansha International, with Japan Foundation assistance.
		Kato's first translation of Shiba, "The Heart Remembers Home," would seem to validate her "it has to be attempted" philosophy.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/Shiba_Ryotaro_158308289.aspx (1411 words)

	Taiwan - Congressional Record
		Ryotaro Shiba wrote the following phrase: `the rain in my heart falls endlessly.' The travel notes provoked a strong response from many readers, and it appeared the author Mr.
		Shiba, I have a lot of things to discuss with you.' The entire interview was conducted in Japanese.
		Shiba, she told me to talk about `the grief of being born a Taiwanese.' We then talked about `the Exodus' of the Old Testament.
	www.fas.org /news/taiwan/1994/s940721-taiwan2.htm (6855 words)

	Five Modern Japanese Novelists - PowerBookSearch! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Kobo Abe, and Ryotaro Shiba: these great men of modern Japanese letters were all acquaintances of Keene (Columbia Univ.), and he writes in a charming, personal tone, recounting humorous anecdotes, telling the stories of their first meetings, and sharing his initial impressions.
		As they have all died (Shiba most recently, in 1996), this slender book is Keene's tribute to them.
		He mentions their best-known works and discusses some of the controversies surrounding them, e.g., Kawabata is known for having won the Nobel prize in literature in 1968 although Mishima was considered a strong candidate.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0231126115.html (876 words)

	Five Modern Japanese Novelists - Donald Keene
		The five modern Japanese novelists of the title are Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kobo, and Shiba Ryotaro.
		Not the cutting edge of contemporary Japanese fiction, but most of the grand old men of 20th century Japanese literature that are known in the West.
		Particularly useful is the introduction to the least well-known of the quintet, Shiba Ryotaro.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/abek/keened.htm (521 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		World J Gastroenterol Kagawa T, Watanabe N, Kanouda H, Takayama I, Shiba T, Kanai T, Kawazoe K, 800 MEq/mL while ALT was 9 times that of the upper limit of normal (357 IU/L).
		Shiba K6kan is not Harushige, nor did he ever claim to be.
		Amazon.com Books: Ryotaro Shiba The Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu by Ryotaro Shiba and Juliet Winters Meiji to iu kokka by Ryotaro Shiba (Unknown Binding).
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	Story - Crime and punishment in conflict
		Born Mito Keiki (he was renamed upon assuming the shogunate), the last shogun was, despite his aristocratic upbringing, a determinedly unambitious man with little patience for court formalities and political maneuverings.
		The delightful way that Ryotaro not only dispenses the historical basics, but also makes all the principals exist as people (rather than archetypes) makes the book a fascinating read, while giving substantial insight into the times in which this upheaval took place.
		The Meiji Restoration was essentially the beginning of "modern" Japan, a country open to the outside world, but fiercely protective of its own identity.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /util/printready.asp?id=801 (551 words)

	BookLoons Reviews - Last Shogun by Ryotaro Shiba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I started with The Last Shogun, an incredibly fascinating book written by an incredibly fascinating man. Its author, Ryotaro Shiba, is one of Japan's best-loved writers of all time.
		He was cited as a person of cultural merit in 1991 and was conferred the Order of Culture in 1993.
		The Last Shogun was published in Japan as a novel, for historical novels were Ryotaro Shiba's forte.
	www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.ASP?bookid=3591 (506 words)

	Japanese editorial excerpts -4- Japan Policy & Politics - Find Articles
		Helping definitevely to shape this interpretation of history was writer Ryotaro Shiba's novel ''Saka-no Ue-no Kumo'' (Cloud above the hill).
		In the novel, Shiba described political leaders in the Meiji Era (1868-1912) exercising great wisdom as they tackled the crisis, winning victory through fierce but fair battles.
		According to Shiba, the Russo-Japanese War was a war of self-defense against a Russian attempt at dominating all of East Asia.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2004_Feb_17/ai_113341918 (640 words)

	WAISers: Steven Torok--Hungary, the US, Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		" As a scholarship student in Japan in 1962 I have met Shiba Ryotaro in Kyoto.
		He was writing at the time his novel Ryomaga Yuku that was to become later one of the best- sellers of post-war Japan, having sold more than seventeen million copies.
		That is when I met Shiba Ryotaro, his wife Midori-san introduced me after an interview for Mother’s Day with some foreign students there.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/WAIS/Members/member_steventorok32601.html (185 words)

	The Last Shogun by Ryotaro Shiba, Juliet Winters Carpenter - 156836217X
		A biography of Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837-1913), the 15th and last shogun of Japan, written by a prominent Japanese novelist and reporter.
		In Ryotaro Shiba's account of the life of Japan's last shogun, Perry's arrival off the coast of Japan was merely the spark that ignited the cataclysm in store for the Japanese people and their governments.
		It came to its real climax with the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, the event which forms the centerpiece of this book.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/156836217X (334 words)

	Spreading the word on popular literature: Japan \| ak2 translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Popular literature, a concept that matured in the 1920s with the emergence of a mass media, posits innocent storytelling against intellectual depth and sophisticated expression, and implies a populist intention, as contrasted to the unavoidable elitism of pure literature.
		Authors of popular literature include Shin Hasegawa, Eiji Yoshikawa, Shugoro Yamamoto and Ryotaro Shiba, among many others.
		Having already arranged for the translation and publication of a work by the best-selling author Ryotaro Shiba, it now midwifes a selection of stories by Shuhei Fujisawa (1927-1997), whose works, including the famous "Semi Shigure," often proved the basis for popular films and television programs.
	ak2.net /node/14 (757 words)

	village voice > film > Taboo; Girlfight; Two-Lane Blacktop by J. Hoberman
		Nagisa Oshima is Japan's greatest living filmmaker, and his first theatrical feature in 14 years is an action film at once baroque and austere, hypnotic and opaque—a samurai drama punctuated by thwacking kendo matches in which the romantic swordsmen keep falling in love.
		Radically reconfiguring two novellas by Ryotaro Shiba, Japan's bestselling author of historical fiction, Taboo (previously billed as Gohatto) is an appropriately fatalistic, drolly deadpan, and elegantly precise restatement of the 68-year-old filmmaker's career-long concerns.
		One of Oshima's few period films—his last samurai film, the blatantly subversive Shiro Amakusa, the Christian Rebel, was made in 1962—Taboo is set in 1865, just before the dawn of Japanese modernization, during the final two years of the Tokugawa shogunate and its samurai supporters.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0039/hoberman.shtml (1499 words)

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		Ryotaro's actual study which can be viewed by peering through a
		As lectures are held two to three times a year, one is given the
	www.clair-osaka.jp /backnume.cgi?id=82 (681 words)

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	joera.org /b/ryotaro-shiba.html (149 words)

	Himeji City Museum of Literature Hyogo Japan by Tadao Ando
		In this visual construction and topographical relationship Ando sets up an intentional dialogue between the old and the new.
		While the older Main Building functions primarily as exhibition space, the newer Annex serves as a library and archive for the works of the writer Ryotaro Shiba.
		It also consists of intersecting geometrical forms which are set up on axis to the Main Building; a planar concrete wall two stories high penetrates a rectangular glass volume at an angle to it.
	www.galinsky.com /buildings/himeji (627 words)

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		Interviews Lee has given to Japanese reporters, in Japanese, have reinforced his popularity in Japan -- though many of the comments have created a furor back home in Taiwan.
		A clear example of this tendency is Japanese author Ryotaro Shiba's Travel Notes from Taiwan -- which included Lee's remarks on the "sadness of being Taiwanese."
		Lee's goodwill toward Japanese of his generation has satisfied their nostalgia for the old days.
	taiwansecurity.org /TT/2001/TT-052801.htm (490 words)

	The Strait Scoop by Bevin Chu
		Democracy" is counting on the "opposition" Chen Shui-bian to spare Lee from the same fate as corrupt South Korean former dictators Chun Doo-hwan and Roe Tae-woo.
		everal years ago, Lee Teng-hui boasted to visiting Japanese journalist Ryotaro Shiba, in Lee’s characteristically megalomanical fashion, that he saw himself as Moses, leading his people out of Egypt to the Promised Land.
		What the Japanophile Quisling Lee meant was that he was leading the Chinese province of Taiwan away from China and toward Japan.
	www.antiwar.com /chu/c030300.html (1968 words)

	Japanese Movie Review \| Owls' Castle (1999) Riona Hazuki, Takaya Kamikawa
		Meaning these ninjas aren't invincible, they're just very good at what they do.
		Based on a novel by Ryotaro Shiba, the film stars Kiichi Nakai as Juzo, one of the few surviving members of a ninja clan called Iga.
		Ten years earlier, the Japanese emperor sent 1000s of men to slaughter the Iga because he feared them.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/owlscastle.htm (928 words)

	Ryotaro Shiba Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Ryotaro Shiba Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		by Ryotaro Shiba, Burritt Sabin (Introduction by), Eileen Kato (Translator)
		This comprehensive work chronicles the life of Kukai, the monk who brought Buddhism to Japan in the ninth century and is considered to be the father of Japanese culture.
	www.alibris.co.uk /search/books/author/Ryotaro_Shiba (146 words)

	Amazon.ca: Drunk as a Lord: Samurai Stories: Books: Ryotaro Shiba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Amazon.ca: Drunk as a Lord: Samurai Stories: Books: Ryotaro Shiba
		Drunk As A Lord: Samurai Stories is a collection of short historical fiction stories of a feudal Japan being roughly forced to acknowledge the world around it.
		Based on actual people and events, yet brought to life by the vivid personal imagination of author Ryotaro Shiba, Drunk As A Lord is a highly poetic, insightful literary collection.
	www.amazon.ca /Drunk-as-Lord-Samurai-Stories/dp/4770027370 (225 words)

	Letters:SHIBA RYOTARO, my friend;Mottodology, Pictures: In Australia and 5 years after retirement. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Letters:SHIBA RYOTARO, my friend;Mottodology, Pictures: In Australia and 5 years after retirement.
		About Me: I am organizing a series of negotiations seminars
		If you want an AFICS history I am willing to write it!
	pages.zdnet.com /steve.torok/id9.html (66 words)

	Ryotaro Shiba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	DVD of the Week: (8/4/2003): Owls' Castle
		It got to the point where I wondered why someone didn't come out below, rubbing his eyes and shouting, "Pipe down up there!
		Owl's Castle is an amazingly lazy movie based on a semi-historical work of fiction by Ryotaro Shiba.
		In it, he theorized that an attempt had been made on Hideyoshi's life by the survivor of a ninja clan he had eradicated (ostensibly for his own protection); that one of the survivors would want to take revenge.
	www.thegline.com /dvd-of-the-week/2003/08-04-2003.htm (892 words)

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