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Between 1946 and 1971, the book sold only 28,000 hardback copies, and a paperback edition was not issued until 1967. [8] Benedict played a major role in grasping the place of the Emperor of Japan in Japanese popular culture, and formulating the recommendation to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that permitting continuation of the Emperor's reign had to be part of the eventual surrender offer.
Benedict is known not only for her earlier Patterns of Culture but also for her later book The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, the study of the society and culture of Japan that she published in 1946, incorporating results of her wartime research. This book is an instance of anthropology at a distance.
Chrysanthemum is a young mouse who loves her unique name, until she is teased about it by her classmates. Her main tormentors are three mice named Jo, Rita and Victoria, who ridicule her for being named after a flower and point out that her name is so long it barely fits on a name tag.
The Chrysanthemums and Other Stories book cover "The Chrysanthemums" is a short story by American writer John Steinbeck. It was first published in 1937 before being included as part of his collection The Long Valley the following year.
It closely follows the journal he kept of one-month paid relationship with Kiku (Chrysanthemum) in the Jūzenji neighbourhood (modern day Jūninmachi ) in 1885. [2] Originally written in French and published in 1887 , Madame Chrysanthème was very successful in its day, running to 25 editions in the first five years of its publication with ...
The Sign of the Chrysanthemum is a 1973 work of literature that was the first published work by the American novelist Katherine Paterson.The novel is set in 12th century Japan around and during the Heiji rebellion and tells the story of Muna, a 14-year-old who searches for his long-absent father following his mother's death.
The article writes a lot about the book's reception and the circumstances in which it was written, but I think the article would profit from a section on the book's main propositions or theses. --158.143.214.167 20:23, 13 January 2009 (UTC) I agree. This article could have been titled "Criticism of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword".
According to Saunders he read his first work of science fiction in 1958, a misremembered novel by Andre Norton; this he states was what got him into the genre. [7] ( The mutated Siamese he recalls in an interview with Amy Harlib was most likely Lura, the giant Siamese cat and companion to the hero Fors in Norton's 1952 novel Star Man's Son [later reprinted as Daybreak 2250 A.D. and Star Man's ...