Word: shoguns
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...exhibition, 145 robes, masks and accessories made for the classical Nō theater by 17th and 18th century Japanese craftsmen, comes from the collection of a family which, next to the Emperor's, was for more than 250 years the most exalted in Japan-the Tokugawa. The shogun, or warlord, leyasu Tokugawa unified Japan at the beginning of the 17th century, welding its scattered feudal clans into a military ruling class with himself at the top; from then until the capsule of Japanese self-containment was ruptured by Admiral Perry, the country was run by an unbroken line...
FICTION 1-Curtain, Christie (1 last week) 2-Ragtime, Doctorow (2) 3-The Choirboys, Wambaugh (3) 4-The Greek Treasure, Stone (4) 5-In the Beginning, Potok (5) 6-Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Rossner (8) 7-The Eagle Has Landed, Higgins (6) 8-Shogun, Clavell (10) 9-Humboldt's Gift, Bellow (7) 10-Nightwork, Shaw...
...Shogun, Clavell...
...Shogun, Clavell...
FICTION 1 -Curtain, Christie (1 last week) 2 -Ragtime, Doctorow (2) 3-The Greek Treasure, Stone (3) 4-The Choirboys, Wambaugh (4) 5-In the Beginning, Potok (5) 6-Shogun, C/ave// (8) 7 -Humboldt's Gift, Be//ow (7) 8-The Eagle Has Landed, Higgins (10) 9 -Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Ressner (6) 10-Nightwork, Shaw (9) NONFICTION 1 -The Relaxation Response, Benson(2) 2 -Bring On the Empty Horses, Niven (1) 3-Angels, Graham (7) 4-Sylvia Porter's Money Book, Porter (3) 5-The People 's Almanac, Wallechinsky & Wallace (4) 6-The Ascent...