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Japanese cinema
An informal yet informed journey through the classic works of Japanese cinema and their directors.This is a passionate, personal journey through one of the world’s greatest national cinemas, beginning with the classic directors who came to the fore in the postwar period and became legendary names...
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Professor risley and the imperial japanese troupe
The true tale of an American impresario, Japanese acrobats, and a circus tour adventure; richly illustrated.
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A straight road with 99 curves
From fascination to disillusionment and back, a memoir of one man's quest for Zen and spirituality in America and Japan.
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Exploring kyoto, revised edition
An updated guide to the legendary gardens, temples, and backstreet treasures of Japan's most walkable city.
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Green tea living
Homespun wisdom from Japan updated for today's "green lifestyle" choices.
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The fourth string
Two women. Two cultures. One music.
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Yoga heart
Poems derived from yogic practice, capturing the journey of the physical body to transcendent awareness.
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Kanazawa
In Kanazawa, Japan, Emmitt and his wife Mirai clash over how to pursue their future together until a 30-year-old mystery reveals a way forward.
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The forgotten japanese
A revealing look at rural lives and lifestyles that have all but disappeared today.
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Discovering yamaguchi sake
A new and remarkable look at the sake produced in Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture. This book is the first of its kind, a deep-dive into a single sake-producing region to highlight its delicious brews as well as the people, land, and culture behind them. Brewing in Yamaguchi — in southern Honshu, Jap...
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A bridge of words
Prolific, award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry Hiroaki Sato recorded his thoughts on American society in mainly two columns across 30-plus years, collected here for the first time. This anthology of over 60 of Sato’s commentaries reflect the writer’s wide-ranging erudi...
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One hot summer in kyoto
The tale of Peter Meadowes, who flees to Kyoto for a summer vacation and lusts after every woman he sees.
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Kyoto stories
An American student in 1970s Kyoto rambles among the city's beauties and traditions, learning as he goes. Don Ascher is a young American living in Kyoto in the 1970s. He is a student of Japanese. He also teaches English, works at a shabu-shabu restaurant, and hangs out in the company of gangsters...
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Monkey new writing from japan
For fans of Japanese literature (Haruki Murakami and more) and readers who want to be introduced to exciting new writers. MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume 5 celebrates CREATURES, from ants to bears, frogs to g...
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The silver spoon
Japan's most beloved memoir, from the early 20th century, "an extraordinarily beautiful evocation of the world of childhood" (Howard Hibbett).
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China survival guide
An updated edition of the best-selling travel guide that spells out tourist problems and solutions with humor and candor.
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Takaoka's travels
Winner of the Yomiuri Prize.Winner of the 2024-2025 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.Recipient of the 2022-23 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation. Introducing Tatsuhiko Shibusawa—Japan’s Italo Calvino—in this fantas...
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Basho's haiku journeys
Haiku tell the story of the poet Basho and the diaries he wrote while walking throughout Japan in the 1600s
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The minamata story
The true story of how one Japanese village suffered and survived the mercury poisoning of its waters.
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Sake confidential
An American sake expert takes you to a whole new level of insider knowledge and expertise
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Illusory dwellings
Essays on the nature, creation, and presentation of art, craft, and architecture in Japan, springing from the author’s experiences in Kyoto.
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The care and use of japanese woodworking tools
Essential information for hobbyists and professionals; fully illustrated
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Evening clouds
A masterpiece of quiet lyricism against a backdrop of change and renewal
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Family crests of japan
Find the beauty and meaning of over 850 family crests found in Japanese tradition
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A lateral view
A revealing look at the Japanese through the window of their contemporary culture.
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Barbarians and the birth of chinese identity
The third volume in this fun, comic-style series that explores China's relationship with its barbarian neighbors. The Mongols!
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Right under the big sky, i don't wear a hat
Haiku and occasional essays from an eccentric personality.
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Kyoto machiya restaurant guide
Enjoy delicious Japanese food in some of Kyoto's most tucked-away and spectacular townhouses.
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A hundred years and a day
This ground-breaking collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed novel Spring Garden, pushes the short story to a new level. In these stories of human connection in a contemporary, alienated world, people come together to share pieces of their lives, then part. We meet the women who...
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Still life and other stories
Winner of the PEN Center USA Award for translationAward-winning author Junzo Shono weaves a stunning tapestry of everyday life in this collection of short stories.A young man, having failed his college entrance exams, becomes obsessed with a family card game. A businessman stays overnight at an i...
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My heart sutra
A cultural and personal journey into the famous sutra that teaches "form is emptiness; and emptiness is form."
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Eating wild japan
A delicious collection of essays, recipes, and practical plant information exploring Japan's thriving culture of foraged foods.
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What i wish my christian friends knew about judaism
The basics of Jewish life and customs described for Christians in a spirit of understanding and shared appreciation of common roots. “Masterful overview.”--Publishers Weekly
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Japan from anime to zen
An accessible compendium of the most important aspects of Japanese arts, culture and history, for quick reference or a longer, in-depth read, for actual and armchair travelers alike..
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Bird talk and other stories by xu xu
Introducing the works of a major Chinese writer--liberal, cosmopolitan, and lyrically exotic--once banned but now embraced, and newly "discovered" in the West.
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Tokyo stroll
Adventuring, wandering, discovery: this is the guidebook to Tokyo that Japan lovers and the curious have been waiting for.
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Sharing a house with the never-ending man
An American’s unique behind-the-scenes look at Japanese business and how the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki were introduced to the world.
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The rabbi finds her way
This rabbi gig. People have no idea what it's all about.
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Oh, tama!
A deeply eccentric novel about lives and connections—and a cat of course—in 1980s Tokyo: witty, offbeat, and strangely profound.
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On god's radar
"Anyone who thinks walking across the country is about walking, I'm here to tell you that it's not."
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Forty-seven samurai
One of the most spectacular vendettas ever: the history and haiku behind the mass-suicide featured in the 2013 film 47 Ronin
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The buddhist swastika and hitler's cross
A remarkable cross-cultural history that rescues the swastika, an ancient Buddhist symbol, from its deployment by the forces of hate.
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China smart
Essential essays on all things Chinese that inform and entertain travelers, students, and anyone working or living in China
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My year of dirt and water
Married to a Zen monk in training, an American woman in Japan chronicles her own year of growth and discovery.
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Amy's guide to best behavior in japan
Going to Japan? This unfussy modern guide guarantees you keep it polite and get it right!
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A shameful life
A new, definitive translation of the postwar classic know to the west as No Longer Human—a tortured vision inspiring the likes of Junji Ito and Bungo Stray Dogs
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Naikan
The 20th anniversary edition of the best-selling guide to self-reflection.A unique blend of the spiritual and psychological to help you examine your life, renew your relationships, and reshape your future. Drawing on Eastern spiritual and psychological traditions, Naikan is an effective method of...
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Dragon palace
Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of ...
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