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Tokyo New Wave: 31 Chefs Defining Japan's Next Generation, with Recipes
Author: Andrea Fazzari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Showcasing the new talent of Tokyo's vibrant food scene, Andrea Fazzari profiles 31 chefs who are shaping the future of one...
Jutaku: Japanese Houses
Author: Naomi Pollock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Quirky, surprising and entertaining - with more than 400 houses, Jutaku is architecture at the speed of Japan. Frenetic. Pulsating. Disorienting....
Emperor of the Eight Islands: Books 1 and 2 in The Tale of Shikanoko series
Author: Lian Hearn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Like George R. R. Martin, Lian Hearn has captivated millions of readers worldwide with her masterpiece of imagination, TALES...
Kokoro
Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom...
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A magical cultural history of modern Japan. Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the...
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile walk through Japan
Author: Alan Booth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A classic of modern travel writing- the story of one man's epic trek across Japan, from north to south...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...
Botchan
Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'All right, I decided, if I couldn't win tonight, I'd win tomorrow. If I couldn't win tomorrow, I'd win...
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Casablanca remade Japanese-style'- a moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances Growing up in the suburbs in...
The Box Man
Author: Kobo Abe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece 'This is the record of a box man'The streets of Tokyo have been...
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable...
Killing Commendatore
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The latest bewitching, kaleidoscopic novel from master storyteller Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and 1Q84 We...
Kafka on the Shore
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky... A bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist. ...
Norwegian Wood
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title...
Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur Golden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world. A seductive...
The Memory Police
Author: Yoko Ogawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A compelling and surreal, Orwellian mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020,...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Murakami's most acclaimed novel in a highly covetable gift edition Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami...
Underground
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
Author: Geoffrey Bownas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Penguin Book of Japanese Versecontains over 700 poems from the third century to the twentieth, including both tanka...
The Pillow Book
Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
Author: Jay Rubin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates...
The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
Author: Murasaki Shikibu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture...
Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho
Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years. Discover a realm of travel writing...
Buddhist Scriptures
Author: Donald Lopez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles....
The Penguin Book of Haiku
Author: Adam L. Kern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 First Penguin volume of best Japanese haiku vivid translations. Gaze I shall! 'til the very blossoms become a...
Japanese Ghost Stories
Author: Lafcadio Hearn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A selection of Lafcadio Hearn's brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan. In this...
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki
Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 New to Penguin Classics, these two Japanese texts are timeless reflections on Buddhism, nature and the value of being...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described...
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse
Author: Peter MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. 'How the night deepens. A...
The Man in the High Castle
Author: Philip K. Dick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K....
The Samurai
Author: Shusaku Endo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A superb historical novel by one of Japan's greatest novelists. 'When the Pope appears,' Velasco repeated once more, 'touch...
Hiroshima
Author: John Hersey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over Hiroshima of the first...
Dorodango: The Japanese Art of Making Mud Balls
Author: Bruce Gardner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The exquisite Japanese hikaru dorodango, or shiny mud ball, is created by rolling earth by hand into a perfect sphere and...
The Fleet at Flood Tide America at Total War in the Pacific
Author: James Hornfischer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An unprecedented account of the monumental Pacific War campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its power and...
Patient X The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Author: David Peace (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo...
Kokeshi Kimono Book
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Author: Annelore Parot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 36 Konichiwa! Welcome to the world of the Kokeshi! Inspired by traditional Japanese dolls, this delightful universe has sophistication, style, and an...