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The Way of the Samurai

The Way of the Samurai

$13.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by Inazo Nitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a huge...
Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food

Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food

$35.00 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Katherine Tamiko Arguile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes...
Dorodango: The Japanese Art of Making Mud Balls

Dorodango: The Japanese Art of Making Mud Balls

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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

The Fleet at Flood Tide America at Total War in the Pacific

$59.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
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...
Kokeshi Kimono Book

Kokeshi Kimono Book

$10.00 AUD
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...
Forest Bathing: Discovering Health and Happiness Through the Japanese Practice of Shinrin Yoku (A Start Here Guide)

Forest Bathing: Discovering Health and Happiness Through the Japanese Practice of Shinrin Yoku (A Start Here Guide)

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Cyndi Gilbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Author and naturopathic physician Dr. Cyndi Gilbert introduces readers to the art and science of forest bathing, the deceptively...
Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller

Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Butter

Butter

$32.99 AUD$26.39 AUD
Author: Asako Yuzuki Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable' PANDORA SYKES 'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' ERIN KELLY 'I have been glued to Asako Yuzuki's new novel...
The Way of Nagomi: Live more harmoniously the Japanese way

The Way of Nagomi: Live more harmoniously the Japanese way

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Ken Mogi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 NAGOMI is the Japanese ideology that advocates embracing everything life throws at us so we can live peacefully and harmoniously. There...
Peach Blossom Spring: A glorious, sweeping novel about family and the search for home

Peach Blossom Spring: A glorious, sweeping novel about family and the search for home

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Melissa Fu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Melissa Fu portrays the time, the culture, the place and the struggles of this family so vividly, with nuance...
Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future

Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future

$15.00 AUD
Author: Richard Davies (University of Bergamo Italy) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New Statesman best book of the year New York Times Editors' Choice pick A Financial Times...
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The perfect book to curl up with - for lovers of Japanese translated fiction everywhere

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The perfect book to curl up with - for

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books.Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked...
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile walk through Japan

The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile walk through Japan

$26.99 AUD$22.90 AUD
A classic of modern travel writing- the story of one man's epic trek across Japan, from north to south One sunny spring morning in the 1970s, an unlikely Englishman set...
Designing Modern Japan

Designing Modern Japan

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Sarah Teasley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From cars to cameras, design from Japan is ubiquitous. So are perceptions of Japanese design, from calming, carefully crafted minimalism to...
Jutaku: Japanese Houses

Jutaku: Japanese Houses

$29.95 AUD$24.50 AUD
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....
The Monster Book of Manga Creatures and Characters Coloring Book

The Monster Book of Manga Creatures and Characters Coloring Book

$34.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Estudio Joso Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 A collection of eye-catching images to color that capture the diversity of the manga universe and the unique personalities of its...
The Japanese Guide to Healthy Drinking: Advice from a Sake-loving Doctor on How Alcohol Can Be Good for You

The Japanese Guide to Healthy Drinking: Advice from a Sake-loving Doctor on How Alcohol Can Be Good for You

$34.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's...
Five Broken Blades: Discover the instant Sunday Times bestselling adventure fantasy debut taking the world by storm

Five Broken Blades: Discover the instant Sunday Times bestselling

$39.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Five ruthless killers. Five deadly motives. One King - who must die. Six of Crows meets Kill Bill in a feast of treason and seduction set against a dazzling fantasy...
The Tatami Galaxy: A Novel

The Tatami Galaxy: A Novel

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Tomihiko Morimi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE* An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the...
Let's Say Hello

Let's Say Hello

$14.99 AUD$7.00 AUD
Author: Giselle Ang Format: Board book Number of Pages: 20 Teach babies to greet others in twelve different languages with this adorable multilingual board book! Get ready, everyone! LET'S SAY...HELLO....
Dream a Little Dream

Dream a Little Dream

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
The next heartwarming instalment of the Timber Girls Series. Perfect for fans of Elaine Everest and Pam Howes.Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland, newly stationed at the...
The Memory Police

The Memory Police

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
A compelling and surreal, Orwellian mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from...
Rintaro: Japanese Food from an Izakaya in California

Rintaro: Japanese Food from an Izakaya in California

$60.00 AUD$48.00 AUD
Author: Sylvan Mishima Brackett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 RINTARO, the debut cookbook from one of San Francisco's most acclaimed restaurants, translates the experience of a Tokyo izakaya to...
A Duke Worth Fighting For

A Duke Worth Fighting For

$15.99 AUD$8.00 AUD
A fake relationship becomes the real thing in this Regency romance from the bestselling author Publishers Weekly calls "irresistible." To protect the dukedom from an incompetent and greedy cousin, Daniel...
Geisha

Geisha

$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Shinto: The Kami Spirit World of Japan

Shinto: The Kami Spirit World of Japan

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
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...
The Beauty of Everyday Things

The Beauty of Everyday Things

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
The Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallmarks of Japanese design as we know it today - anonymity, quality, simplicity...
I Am a Cat

I Am a Cat

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
Author: Soseki Natsume Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during...
47 Ronin: The Classic Tale of Samurai Loyalty, Bravery and Retribution

47 Ronin: The Classic Tale of Samurai Loyalty, Bravery and Retribution

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Author: John Allyn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A classic tale that will captivate lovers of Japan, history, and epic adventure alike. Japan's most celebrated tale of chivalry, loyalty...
The Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets

The Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets

$15.00 AUD
Andrew Pekarik's "The Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets" is an exceptionally beautiful and useful publication that celebrates in art and text the work of top women poets who worked from the...
We'll Prescribe You a Cat

We'll Prescribe You a Cat

$32.99 AUD$26.39 AUD
For fans of TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES, SHE AND HER CAT and THE GOODBYE CAT - this huge international sensation with a touch of magical realism tells of mysterious clinic where...
Catfish Rolling

Catfish Rolling

$17.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
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...
House Vision: New Spaces for Japanese Residential Architecture

House Vision: New Spaces for Japanese Residential Architecture

$69.99 AUD$35.00 AUD
Almost every architect starts their career with the design of a residence. This fact alone helps to highlight the significant status of the residence in the field of Japanese architecture....
Snow Falling on Cedars

Snow Falling on Cedars

$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Learn Japanese with Manga Volume One: A Self-Study Language Book for Beginners - Learn to read, write and speak Japanese with manga comic strips! (free online audio): Volume 1

Learn Japanese with Manga Volume One: A Self-Study Language Book for Beginners - Learn to read, write and speak Japanese with manga comic strips! (free online audio): Volume 1

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
Author: Marc Bernabe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Learn to read, write, and speak everyday Japanese with manga stories! If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with this...
Maneki Neko: The Japanese Secret to Good Luck and Happiness

Maneki Neko: The Japanese Secret to Good Luck and Happiness

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
Author: Nobuo Suzuki Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 What does 'good luck' look like and how do you achieve it? The Japanese have been doing it for centuries! Lucky...
The Wisdom of Flowers: Essential Life Lessons for Joy and Wellbeing

The Wisdom of Flowers: Essential Life Lessons for Joy and Wellbeing

$27.99 AUD$22.39 AUD
Author: Liz Marvin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Taking sixty of the world's most amazing flowers and flowering plants, including the corpse flower from Indonesia, the bat-face cuphea and...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's lives back...
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea

Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea

$61.95 AUD$30.00 AUD
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...
The Tatami Time Machine Blues: A Novel

The Tatami Time Machine Blues: A Novel

$32.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. During...
Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat: The Heartwarming Korean Bestseller

Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat: The Heartwarming Korean Bestseller

$49.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
*THE HEARTWARMING KOREAN BESTSELLER* *A new book from Shanna Tan, translator of Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop* Situated at the heart of a rapidly gentrifying district of Seoul, the Yeonnam-dong...
Earthlings

Earthlings

$39.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Sayaka Murata Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an...
Japanese Essential Dictionary: All the words you need, every day (Collins Essential)

Japanese Essential Dictionary: All the words you need, every day (Collins Essential)

$19.99 AUD$16.99 AUD
Author: Collins Dictionaries Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The home of trusted Japanese dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy and affordable Japanese to English and English to Japanese...
No Longer Human: A New Translation

No Longer Human: A New Translation

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Author: Osamu Dazai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of...
Kawaii Doodles: Supercute Drawings in Four Easy Steps (with over 1,250 illustrations)

Kawaii Doodles: Supercute Drawings in Four Easy Steps (with over 1,250 illustrations)

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
Author: Yuu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Age range 7+ Doodling is cute, fun, and creative - the very essence of Kawaii culture! Japanese illustrator Yuu is known for...
Monet & Japan

Monet & Japan

$15.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: et al Format: Paperback...
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa. An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling...