Pada tahun 1445 Masehi, atas permintaan Bhre Kêrtabumi, Syekh Ibrahim Al-Akbar berlayar dari Champa menuju Jawa, diiringi Sayyid Ali Murtadlo dan tiga belas santrinya. Mengingat pertumbuhan kaum muslim yang pesat di pesisir Jawa, syekh keturunan Samarqand itu didaulat untuk menjadi petinggi agama Islam di Keraton Majapahit. Tetapi jung Syekh Ibrahim diamuk badai hingga terdampar di pantai Ka…
Mengikuti hasrat pengembaraan, Pendekar Tanpa Nama dari Javadvipa tiba di Tanah Kambuja pada tahun 796. Perjumpaan dengan seorang perempuan pendekar, membuat ia terlibat berbagai pertarungan maut yang setiap kali nyaris mencabut nyawanya. Bersama perempuan pendekar itu, ia bergabung dengan pasukan pemberontak An Nam yang melawan penjajahan, yang kemudian membuatnya wajib melakukan perjalanan ra…
Hideyoshi, who called himself the Swordless Samurai, is the Japanese Horatio Alger. He was of peasant origin, but by bonding to powerful Lord Nobunaga, and being useful to him day and night, Hideyoshi secured a powerful patron. Much later, Hideyoshi became the most powerful man in Japan. This book tells how he did it.
In the tempestuous closing decades of the sixteenth century, the Empire of Japan writhes in chaos as the shogunate crumbles and rival warlords battle for supremacy. Warrior monks in their armed citadels block the road to the capital; castles are destroyed, villages plundered, fields put to the torch. Amid this devastation, three men dream of uniting the nation. At one extreme is the charismatic…
The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai—without really knowing what it meant—he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed and wounded among t…
The late author Arysio Santos was a highly regarded climatologist, geologist, and nuclear physicist. He was also a scholar of history, folklore, languages, and the occult. In this groundbreaking study of Atlantis, he draws on all these disciplines, as well as ancient maps, Plato’s dialogues, and folkloric narratives, to provide the most compelling case yet of the disappearance of an entire ci…
Hokusai's "Mangas" constitute a comprehensive visual encyclopaedia of the Japanese civilization in the XIXth Century. He also depicts the Japanese landscape: wildlife, vegetation, mountains, countryside, seaside, the changes of weather, architecture as well as religious and mythological themes.
Since their excavation, the Terracotta Warriors have impressed the whole world with their artistic, cultural, and scientific significance. They are considered one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in China and an eighth ?Wonder of the World?. In 1987, UNESCO listed the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum and Terracotta Warriors as one of the world?s Cultural Heritage sites. Learn the history of the…