Japanese Books


Monogatari bungaku o aruku (Japanese Edition)	Genji monogatari e no michi: Monogatari bungaku no sekai (Japanese Edition)	History of Japanese Literature: The Modern Years (A history of Japanese literature) This volume covers the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the present, evaluating works by Kawabata,...	Autumn Wind and Other Stories (Tuttle Classics) Best Price: $7.99 "Autumn Wind and Other Stories" is a curious collection. Basically it collects...	Buraku mondai o toriageta hyaku no shosetsu (Japanese Edition)



Oan monogatari. Okiku monogatari. Rikei-ni no ki: Honbun to sosakuin (Izumi Shoin sakuin sosho) (Japanese Edition)	Al Sur De La Frontera, Al Oeste Del Sol / South of the Border, West of the Sun (Andanzas / Adventures) (Coleccion Andanzas) (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $13.01 It is good reading for savoring a little bit of another culture yet quite similar to ours when...	1Q84 (Libro 3) (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $17.33 A las voces de Aomame y de Tengo se suma, en este tercer volumen de la novela 1Q84, la de un...	The Bible and Freezing point I and II	Romaji Diary and Sad Toys (Books to span the East and West) Best Price: $49.85 The novella Romaji Diary represents the first instance of a Japanese writer using romaji...



Burial in the Clouds Best Price: $0.97 "Burial in the Clouds" by Hiroyuki Agawa is as good if not better, than his book...	The Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets: A Poetry Album With Illustrations Best Price: $35.02	A Blade of Grass (Asian Thought and Culture)	ANTHOLOGY CONTEMP JAPAN POETRY (World Literature in Translation) I edited and translated the book so my opinion is totally unbiased. I have also written 3 other...	Country Teacher Best Price: $115.76

Tales of Tears and Laughter: Short Fiction of Medieval Japan Best Price: $20.82 The stories in this collection constitute just a small portion of a vast body of some four...	Love of Mountains: Two Stories Best Price: $0.30 First of Dr. Gerbert wrote an outstanding introduction to these two stories. She not only gives...	Shame in the Blood: A Novel Best Price: $1.27 Acclaimed on its own book jacket as having sold over one million copies and as being ...	The Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Best Price: $139.99 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (hereinbelow referred to as Wonderland, for...	Stars Who Created Kabuki Best Price: $59.34 Kabuki is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost theatrical arts. Its enduring...

The Devil's Whisper Best Price: $18.26 The Devil's Whisper is one of the earliest published works of Miyabe's, and arguably her...	El libro de la almohada / The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (Literatura/ Literature) (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $14.99	Sputnik, Mi Amor (Coleccion Andanzas) (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $14.16	After Dark (Coleccion Maxi) (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $6.75 This time, seems that Haruki decided to keep on the ground. The whole story lasts around 5 hours...	El cuento de un hombre ciego (Libros Del Tiempo / Books of Time) (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $30.95 El cuento de un hombre ciego (1931) es un relato situado en el siglo XVII, despues de la caida...

Fiction and autobiography in the modern Japanese novel	The counterfeiter and other stories In The Counterfeiter , a writer is commissioned to write the biography of a famous painter but...	Tattoo Murder Case (Soho Crime) A very clever and entertaining thriller. This would have been a four-star review, except that...	Intro to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki Harold G. Henderson was, from 1927 to 1929, the Assistant to the Curator of Far Eastern Art at...	The Pleasures of Japanese Literature Best Price: $17.62 Perhaps no one is more qualified to write about Japanese culture than Donald Keene, considered...

Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era (History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 3) Best Price: $45.00 This is the third book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by the world's...	My Friend Hitler Best Price: $85.00 Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of...	Requiem for Battleship Yamato Best Price: $45.59 Although perhaps unsurprising given the scale of Japan's losses and the bitterness of...	Shoshaman: A Tale of Corporate Japan (Voices from Asia) Best Price: $69.05 Acknowledging no god but the corporate good, the shoshamen--high-powered professionals within...	Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950 Best Price: $29.95 It is very interesting to read a this kind of book for us Japanese. However, as far as I know,...

Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu Best Price: $40.95	The Great Mirror of Male Love Best Price: $135.56 ?A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of...	Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology Best Price: $29.17 This anthology of traditional Japanese poetry, presents a grand collection of more than 1,100...	The Path of Flowering Thorn: The Life and Poetry of Yosa Buson Best Price: $468.80 In a world of high tech achievements, Buson's haiku is beyond refreshing because it is more...	Song in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Socho and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan Best Price: $79.97 Song in an Age of Discord is a companion volume to the author?s translation of The Journal of...

Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry Best Price: $63.38 This much-praised collection features works by forty-nine acclaimed modern poets skilled in the...	Paper Door Best Price: $12.95 The book I enjoyed the most in Japanese. SHIGA is unlike other famous Japanese writers such as ...	Even a Stone Buddha Can Talk Best Price: $13.20 What does "the ocean does not choose its trash" mean? When might you advise a friend...	Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century Best Price: $122.48 Keene has written a book that, though using an immense range of Japanese scholarly sources, is...	Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre (Historical Dictionaries Of Literature And The Arts) Best Price: $91.73 This comprehensive reference work covers all four forms of traditional Japanese theatre: ...

Modern Japanese fiction This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,...	The Sound of Waves Paperback ention of Japanese novel by rising writer of the times, who lived an infamous life and...	The Legends of Tono: 100th Anniversary Edition This is an exciting new book that for the first time combines rich biographical information on...	The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity (Records of Civilization: Sources & Studies) Best Price: $84.99	Poems of a Mountain Home (Translations from the Oriental Classics) Best Price: $20.84 Activism is alive and well in the United States, according to Melissa Checker and Maggie...

Modern Japanese Tanka (Modern Asian Literature Series) Best Price: $80.00 A wonderful (and beautifully laid-out and translated) anthology crammed with dozens of...	World Within Walls Best Price: $6.98 The Tokugawa family held the shogunate from 1603 to 1867, ruling Japan and keeping the island...	Tokyo Central: A Memoir (McLellan Books) Best Price: $223.83 From time to time, I will provide a little review of books relating to Japan. I got the idea...	Noh Drama and the Tale of Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays (Princeton Library of Asian Translations) The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi...	The Legends of Tono Best Price: $21.16 Much of what we know of Japanese folklore might have been lost forever if it were not for two...

Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence, and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima First study of Mishima to recount his intellectual background and thought processes, to treat...	Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan Best Price: $19.60 Most Japanese literary historians have suggested that the Meiji Period (1868-1912) was devoid of...	Stories of Osaka Life (Unesco Collection of Representative Works. Japanese Series) Best Price: $3.77 I have a tremendous interest in Asian culture, and bought this book for myself on a whim. It...	Palm-of-the-Hand Stories Best Price: $4.75 If you like Sudden Fiction as a genre but not the usual silliness which accompanies it, this is...	A History of Japanese Literature: The First Thousand Years Best Price: $41.75 This volume traces the development of Japanese literature, emphasizing historical and social...

Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies (Hardback)) Best Price: $65.00 This is a superb book, sure to remain the definitive study of Izumi Kyoka's drama for...	Death March on Mount Hakkoda (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature) Best Price: $3.50 A documentary novel about the distress in Japanese Army's training march in the snowing...	The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories Best Price: $5.55 Without a single bad story in it, but with some towering way above others, "The Best...	Right Under the Big Sky, I Don't Wear a Hat (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature) Best Price: $11.12 Whilst this is an account of lonliness, it certainly isn't one of despair. Ozaki's time...	Master Han's Daughter: Tales from Depraved Neotokyo Best Price: $5.54 once in a while you read something that stays with you, something thatcauses you to think and...

Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence, and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima First study of Mishima to recount his intellectual background and thought processes, to treat...	Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan Best Price: $19.60 Most Japanese literary historians have suggested that the Meiji Period (1868-1912) was devoid of...	Stories of Osaka Life (Unesco Collection of Representative Works. Japanese Series) Best Price: $3.77 I have a tremendous interest in Asian culture, and bought this book for myself on a whim. It...	Palm-of-the-Hand Stories Best Price: $4.75 If you like Sudden Fiction as a genre but not the usual silliness which accompanies it, this is...	A History of Japanese Literature: The First Thousand Years Best Price: $41.75 This volume traces the development of Japanese literature, emphasizing historical and social...

Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies (Hardback)) Best Price: $65.00 This is a superb book, sure to remain the definitive study of Izumi Kyoka's drama for...	Death March on Mount Hakkoda (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature) Best Price: $3.50 A documentary novel about the distress in Japanese Army's training march in the snowing...	The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories Best Price: $5.55 Without a single bad story in it, but with some towering way above others, "The Best...	Right Under the Big Sky, I Don't Wear a Hat (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature) Best Price: $11.12 Whilst this is an account of lonliness, it certainly isn't one of despair. Ozaki's time...	Master Han's Daughter: Tales from Depraved Neotokyo Best Price: $5.54 once in a while you read something that stays with you, something thatcauses you to think and...

Changeling Best Price: $2.90 Fractal designs, such as used to be popular twenty years ago, have the property that any part of...	The Journal of Socho Best Price: $64.75 The Journal of Socho is one of the most individual self-portraits in the literary history of...	Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics Best Price: $50.00 Emptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics based, for the first...	Japanese Death Poems Best Price: $129.94 This is a well-researched book that contains approximately 200 "death" poems, with...	Classic Haiku: A Master's Selection (Tuttle Classics) Best Price: $2.12 One who read this book would have amazzed experience and great pleasure from this book.

A Net of Fireflies: Japanese Haiku and Haiku Paintings I have owned a copy of this book since before I left High School, so long ago. I possess a cloth...	Kaneko Mitsuharu (Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 555 : Japan)	Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafu Best Price: $12.85	Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Oku-No-Hosomichi (Ecco Travels) Best Price: $45.95 There are perhaps half a dozen English versions of this, Basho's most famous...	To Live and to Write: Selections by Japanese Women Writers 1913-1938 (Women in Translation)

The Kobe Hotel Best Price: $10.00 Although an obscure title this is definitely worth tracking down, especially if you have ever...	DEWDROPS ON A LOTUS LEAF (Shambhala Centaur Editions) Best Price: $17.00 The Japanese poet-recluse Ryokan (1758?1831) is one of the most beloved figures of Asian...	Ten Thousand Leaves Best Price: $1.95 The poignancy in these poems speaks as directly to the heart today as it must have in the eighth...	The Essence of Modern Haiku: 300 Poems by Seishi Yamaguchi Best Price: $54.92 Along with Shiki and Santoka, Yamaguchi is a great haiku poet of the 20th century, and...	The Tattoo Murder Case Best Price: $12.00 To anyone who is interested in tattoos or in postwar Japan this book is a must. Having a...

The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) Best Price: $8.99 "In highly informed yet sympathetic and persuasive terms, Norma Field delineates the...	Ochikubo monogatari. Sumiyoshi monogatari (Shin Nihon koten bungaku taikei) (Japanese Edition)	Hissatsu no reppuken (Nihon no kengo) (Japanese Edition)	Heian chuki monogatari bungaku kenkyu (Kasama sosho) (Japanese Edition)	Nihon kinsei shosetsushi (Japanese Edition)

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