Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Biographic Data
| ID | 203896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Hideo Yamashita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel Hideo |
| FAMILY NAME | Yamashita |
| SIGNATURE | YAMASHITA S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pomona College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Quest for an Ideal Culinary Hyperlocalism
In an article in the Spring 2021 issue of Gastronomica, John Broadway discussed what he termed the “hypocrisy of hyperlocality” and critiqued hyperlocal restaurants that cater exclusively to well-heeled, globe-trotting customers.Hyperlocality facilitates an escalation of exclusivity for haute cuisine. The last big trend, molecular gastronomy, lost its luster among global tastemakers after its assimilation into the mainstream; immersion circulator…
Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps by Sarah Kovner
Reviewed by: Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps by Sarah Kovner Samuel H. Yamashita (bio) Sarah Kovner. Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps. By Harvard University Press, 2020. 328 pages. $35.00. Sarah Kovner's Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps is the book that many of us have been waiting for. Since the Asia-Pacific War ended, scores of firsthand accounts of former prisoners of the Japanese revealed…
The “Japanese Turn” in Fine Dining in the United States, 1980–2020
In the 1970s, Japanese cooks began to appear in the kitchens of nouvelle cuisine chefs in France for further training, with scores more arriving in the next decades. Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, Joël Robuchon, and other leading French chefs started visiting Japan to teach, cook, and sample Japanese cuisine, and ten of them eventually opened restaurants there. In the 1980s and 1990s, these chefs' frequent visits to Japan and the steady flow of Japan…
Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity ed. by Nancy K. Stalker
Reviewed by: Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity ed. by Nancy K. Stalker Samuel Hideo Yamashita (bio) Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity. Edited by Nancy K. Stalker. Oxford University Press, New York, 2018. xviii, 349 pages. $105.00, cloth; $31.95, paper. Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity is an important contribution to the English-language scholarship…
World War I and the Origins of the Modern Food System
This forum explores how the demands of World War I shaped industrial food production, state control over distribution, and cultures of food consumption. As the belligerent nations strained to mobilize their full resources, the production of food was arguably as important as munitions, and indeed the two were linked, since the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia, invented shortly before the outbreak of the war, was used to make both gunpo…
Reply to Review by Simon Partner
Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of Sorai sensei tomonsho
Master Sorai's Responsals was to eighteenth-century Japan what The Prince was to Renaissance Italy. Like Machiavelli, Ogyu Sorai (1666-1728) was a humanist scholar who served a prince (one of the shogun's chief lieutenants) and drew on his experiences as a house philosopher and on his vast knowledge of history and political affairs in his work. In 1720, when he began to write the letters that comprise this text, the Tokugawa regime was more than …
Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940 1945
The population of wartime Japan (1940-1945) has remained a largely faceless enemy to most Americans thanks to the distortions of US wartime propaganda, popular culture, and news reports. At a time when this country's wartime experiences are slowly and belatedly coming into focus, this remarkable book by Samuel Yamashita offers an intimate picture of what life was like for ordinary Japanese during the war. Drawing upon diaries and letters written …
Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen--Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup
Journal Article Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of RAMEN—Japan’s Favorite Noodle Soup Get access Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of RAMEN—Japan’s Favorite Noodle Soup, by Barak Kushner. Leiden, Netherlands: Global Oriental, 2012, xix + 289 pp., $90.00 (hardcover ISBN 978 90 04 21845 1). Samuel H. YAMASHITA Samuel H. YAMASHITA Pomona College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Jou…
Wings of Defeat: Once, We Were Kamikaze … Directed by Risa Morimoto and Linda Hoaglund
Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (review)
Reviewed by: Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan Samuel Yamashita (bio) Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan. By Susan L. Burns. Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., 2003. x, 282 pages. $84.95, cloth; $23.95, paper. In Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan, Susan Burns sets out to do three things. First, she gives us…
Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued: Yamagata Daini's Ryushi shinron of 1759
The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought
"Response to John Tucker's Response to "Reading the New Tokugawa Intellectual Histories
Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of Sorai sensei tomonsho
Reading the New Tokugawa Intellectual Histories
Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of `Sorai Sensei Tomon- sho
Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism
Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570-1680
The subject of modern Japanese poetry written in support of the nation's wars, long considered a taboo in postwar literary circles, is explored here in historical and cultural context. Steve Rabson presents translations and explications of works by poets who wrote both for and against war, and provides background essential for understanding why some of Japan's most famous writers swung 180 degrees to support or oppose at different times in their …
The Early Life and Thought of Ito Jinsai
World War I and the Origins of the Modern Food System
This forum explores how the demands of World War I shaped industrial food production, state control over distribution, and cultures of food consumption. As the belligerent nations strained to mobilize their full resources, the production of food was arguably as important as munitions, and indeed the two were linked, since the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia, invented shortly before the outbreak of the war, was used to make both gunpo…
Reading the New Tokugawa Intellectual Histories
Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of `Sorai Sensei Tomon- sho
Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570-1680
The subject of modern Japanese poetry written in support of the nation's wars, long considered a taboo in postwar literary circles, is explored here in historical and cultural context. Steve Rabson presents translations and explications of works by poets who wrote both for and against war, and provides background essential for understanding why some of Japan's most famous writers swung 180 degrees to support or oppose at different times in their …
The Early Life and Thought of Ito Jinsai
Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570-1680
The subject of modern Japanese poetry written in support of the nation's wars, long considered a taboo in postwar literary circles, is explored here in historical and cultural context. Steve Rabson presents translations and explications of works by poets who wrote both for and against war, and provides background essential for understanding why some of Japan's most famous writers swung 180 degrees to support or oppose at different times in their …
Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism
Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of `Sorai Sensei Tomon- sho
Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of Sorai sensei tomonsho
Reading the New Tokugawa Intellectual Histories
"Response to John Tucker's Response to "Reading the New Tokugawa Intellectual Histories
Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued: Yamagata Daini's Ryushi shinron of 1759
The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought
Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (review)
Reviewed by: Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan Samuel Yamashita (bio) Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan. By Susan L. Burns. Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., 2003. x, 282 pages. $84.95, cloth; $23.95, paper. In Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan, Susan Burns sets out to do three things. First, she gives us…
Wings of Defeat: Once, We Were Kamikaze … Directed by Risa Morimoto and Linda Hoaglund
Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen--Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup
Journal Article Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of RAMEN—Japan’s Favorite Noodle Soup Get access Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of RAMEN—Japan’s Favorite Noodle Soup, by Barak Kushner. Leiden, Netherlands: Global Oriental, 2012, xix + 289 pp., $90.00 (hardcover ISBN 978 90 04 21845 1). Samuel H. YAMASHITA Samuel H. YAMASHITA Pomona College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Jou…
Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940 1945
The population of wartime Japan (1940-1945) has remained a largely faceless enemy to most Americans thanks to the distortions of US wartime propaganda, popular culture, and news reports. At a time when this country's wartime experiences are slowly and belatedly coming into focus, this remarkable book by Samuel Yamashita offers an intimate picture of what life was like for ordinary Japanese during the war. Drawing upon diaries and letters written …
Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of Sorai sensei tomonsho
Master Sorai's Responsals was to eighteenth-century Japan what The Prince was to Renaissance Italy. Like Machiavelli, Ogyu Sorai (1666-1728) was a humanist scholar who served a prince (one of the shogun's chief lieutenants) and drew on his experiences as a house philosopher and on his vast knowledge of history and political affairs in his work. In 1720, when he began to write the letters that comprise this text, the Tokugawa regime was more than …
Reply to Review by Simon Partner
World War I and the Origins of the Modern Food System
This forum explores how the demands of World War I shaped industrial food production, state control over distribution, and cultures of food consumption. As the belligerent nations strained to mobilize their full resources, the production of food was arguably as important as munitions, and indeed the two were linked, since the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia, invented shortly before the outbreak of the war, was used to make both gunpo…
The “Japanese Turn” in Fine Dining in the United States, 1980–2020
In the 1970s, Japanese cooks began to appear in the kitchens of nouvelle cuisine chefs in France for further training, with scores more arriving in the next decades. Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, Joël Robuchon, and other leading French chefs started visiting Japan to teach, cook, and sample Japanese cuisine, and ten of them eventually opened restaurants there. In the 1980s and 1990s, these chefs' frequent visits to Japan and the steady flow of Japan…
Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity ed. by Nancy K. Stalker
Reviewed by: Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity ed. by Nancy K. Stalker Samuel Hideo Yamashita (bio) Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity. Edited by Nancy K. Stalker. Oxford University Press, New York, 2018. xviii, 349 pages. $105.00, cloth; $31.95, paper. Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity is an important contribution to the English-language scholarship…
The Quest for an Ideal Culinary Hyperlocalism
In an article in the Spring 2021 issue of Gastronomica, John Broadway discussed what he termed the “hypocrisy of hyperlocality” and critiqued hyperlocal restaurants that cater exclusively to well-heeled, globe-trotting customers.Hyperlocality facilitates an escalation of exclusivity for haute cuisine. The last big trend, molecular gastronomy, lost its luster among global tastemakers after its assimilation into the mainstream; immersion circulator…
Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps by Sarah Kovner
Reviewed by: Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps by Sarah Kovner Samuel H. Yamashita (bio) Sarah Kovner. Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps. By Harvard University Press, 2020. 328 pages. $35.00. Sarah Kovner's Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps is the book that many of us have been waiting for. Since the Asia-Pacific War ended, scores of firsthand accounts of former prisoners of the Japanese revealed…
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