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This sumptuous book explores the important role that woodblock prints played in the fashionable world of Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). 140 ukiyo-e - 'pictures of the floating world' - offer us...

A new translation of Lady Nijo's diary - one of classical Japan's greatest literary works Lady Nijo's A Tale Unasked (Towazugatari) is the last, and arguably the finest, among classical...

RETURN TO THE WORLD OF THE SAMURAI DETECTIVES, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING SERIES OF THRILLING ADVENTURE AND INSCRUTABLE MYSTERY In the months since their last perilous quest, a fragile calm...

Shogun meets Sherlock Holmes! Over 24 million copies have been sold of this beloved samurai adventure It has been half a year since Akiyama Daijiro became a samurai; half a...

A lover in peril. A nation under threat. The clock is ticking . . . Winter is drawing thick in 1932 Shanghai, as is the threat of a Japanese invasion....

Assassin. Immortal. Spy. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights comes the first book in a captivating new duology following an ill-matched pair of spies...

The original Japanese Cat-Lit Classic. Now published in a new translation by Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City Discover the original Japanese Cat classic, now in a...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books All moonlight is moving, wherever it may be... Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in...

The first novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetraology Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich...

An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. But no sooner...