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Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea
In the past two decades, there have been major developments in Korean art, as the country has opened up under the influence of globalization. This unprecedented book focuses on the...
Kuki Shuzo: A Philosopher's Poetry and Poetics
Author: Michael F. Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 Kuki Shžz™ (1888Ð1941), one of JapanÕs most original thinkers of the twentieth century, is best known for his interpretations of...
Sesson Shukei: A Zen Monk-Painter in Medieval Japan
Author: Frank FeltensFormat: Hardback, 241mm x 279mm, 1940g, 260 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Three essays by leading scholars in the field of Japanese art explore Sesson's unique existence and unconventional...
Mindful Design of Japan: 40 Modern Tea-Ceremony Rooms
Author: Michael FreemanFormat: Paperback, 250mm x 232mm, 1200g, 256 pagesPublished: Eight Books, United Kingdom, 2015A fully updated edition of Michael Freeman's popular book,New ZenThe Japanese tea-ceremony, or Way of Tea,...
Ikigai: Simple Secrets to a Long and Happy Life
Author: Hector GarciaFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 209g, 208 pagesPublished: Cornerstone, United Kingdom, 2023A new edition of the multi-million bestselling global phenomenon Ikigai for the personal development market AVAILABLE NOW-...
Tomasz Gudzowaty: SUMO
Author: Tomasz GudzowatyFormat: Paperback, 180mm x 230mm, 1160g, 432 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023The Polish photographer and filmmaker Tomasz Gudzowaty is actually known for his perfection - clear compositions, precisely...
Tomasz Gudzowaty: SUMO
Author: Tomasz GudzowatyFormat: Paperback, 180mm x 230mm, 1160g, 432 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023The Polish photographer and filmmaker Tomasz Gudzowaty is actually known for his perfection - clear compositions, precisely...
The Shikoku Pilgrimage: Japan's Sacred Trail
Author: John LanderFormat: Paperback, 229mm x 229mm, 1050g, 240 pagesPublished: River Books, Thailand, 2021The Shikoku Pilgrimage on the island of the same name is one of the few circular pilgrimages...
Mina's Matchbox
Author: Yoko OgawaFormat: Paperback, 136mm x 216mm, 287g, 288 pagesPublished: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, 2024A story of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan, from the prizewinning author of The...
Off the Beaten Tracks in Japan: A Journey by Train from Hokkaido to Kyushu
Author: John DougillFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 308 pagesPublished: Stone Bridge Press, United States, 2023Observations on the people, culture, and history of Japan from a long-time resident riding the rails...
Shinto: The Kami Spirit World of Japan
Author: Sokyo OnoFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 203mm, 144 pagesPublished: Tuttle Publishing, United States, 2024Japanese Shinto is the simple belief that the divine dwells in all things around us!Shinto: The Japanese...
Catfish Rolling
An exhilarating debut novel by Clara Kumagai, a dazzling new voice for 12+. Magic-realism and Japanese myth and legend blend in an original story about grief, memory, time - and...
The Japanese Guide to Healthy Drinking: Advice from a Sake-loving Doctor on How Alcohol Can Be Good for You
Author: Kaori Haishi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'People in Japan take their drink seriously. But alcohol is seriously bad for you. This book will tell you how to...
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...
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...
The Housekeeper and the Professor: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Author: Yoko Ogawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable...
Out: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Author: Natsuo Kirino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable...
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...
The Coast Watchers: The Men Behind Enemy Lines Who Saved the Pacific
Author: Patrick Lindsay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 " They watched and warned and died that we might live. (Inscription on the Coastwatcher Memorial at Madang, PNG)"...
A Wild Sheep Chase
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seems A marvelous hybrid of...
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...
Men Without Women: Stories
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A dazzling new collection of short stories from the international phenomenon, Haruki Murakami A dazzling Sunday Times bestselling collection...
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,...
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 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....