Shizuko Yoshikawa (born 1934 in Japan, based in Switzerland) was one of the first and few Japanese students at the Ulm Hochschule fur Gestaltung, known as the postwar "Bauhaus." She later married the
Winner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award.The famousryosai kenbo or ‘good wife, wise mother’ role of Japanese women was, in fact, not a traditional Confucian view but a modern constru
Shizuko Kuroha's Japanese Patchwork Quilting Patterns infuses a cherished American craft with an exquisite Japanese sense of color, detail, and design. This book brings a fresh eye to classic patchwor
When this work was published 20 years ago in Japanese, Shizuko (human and environmental studies, Kyoto U., Japan) acknowledged in her preface that the term ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") was
The first collective work to present the contributions of experts in a variety of countries, this book reviews and examines quality assurance systems of Library and Information Science education in sp
Following the end of World War II, 500,000 American troops occupied every prefecture of Japan and interracial marriages occurred. The sudden influx of 50,000 Japanese war brides during 1946-1965 creat
Graphic designers and those interested in the graphic arts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries will welcome the facsimile reprinting of this handsome volume (first published in 1971) on the hist
