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Milky Way Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60One night, alone on a hilltop, a young boy is swept aboard a magical train bound for the Milky Way. A classic in Japan, this tender fable is a book of great wisdom, offering insight into the... -
The Heron Catchers by David Joiner 9781611720815
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Joiner's second novel set in the fabled Kanazawa area is an intimate yet understated look at an American who seeks recovery after his marriage to a Japanese woman has failed.After Nozomi abandons... -
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura 9781933330174
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.09"A seminal guide to Asian life and thought...Very highly recommended."-Midwest Book Review The classic 1906 essay on tea drinking, its history, aesthetics, and deep connection to Japanese culture... -
Sacred Sanskrit Words: For Yoga, Chant, and Meditation by Leza Lowitz 9781880656877
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20"A must-have for anyone who is new and serious about exporing the subject further. Also recommended for advanced practitioners who may want to 'brush-up' on their Sanskrit." -- Yoga Magazine UK ... -
The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Ito 9781737625322
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $33.05Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki Shikibu PrizeIntroducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada.The first novel... -
Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages by Matsuo Basho 9781880656204
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.89Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month... -
A Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist Terms by Hisao Inagaki 9781933330051
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $47.72Buddhism has permeated Japanese life and thought so deeply that knowledge of it is essential for a true understanding of any aspect of Japanese culture. This dictionary, with nearly five thousand... -
The Cape: and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto by Kenji Nakagami 9781933330433
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.73Born into the burakumin-Japan's class of outcasts-Kenji Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in sensual language and stark detail. The Cape is a breakthrough novella about a burakumin community,... -
Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings: With Observations on Culture and Language by Qin Xue Herzberg 9781933330990
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60"Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings is for everyday readers looking for pithy sayings, deeper understanding of the Chinese culture and a unique look at the Chinese language." - The Rapidian ... -
A Bridge of Words: Views across America and Japan by Hiroaki Sato 9781611720785
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $19.00Hiroaki Sato is best known as an expert and prolific translator of Japanese poetry into English. For 44 years, however, his day job was in the research department of a large Japanese trade... -
A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day by Alexander Jacoby
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $30.57This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines... -
Family Crests of Japan by Stone Bridge Press 9781933330303
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20Bold, iconic designs have been used to symbolize family names in Japan from the time of the court nobles in the twelfth century. The sense of "family" has changed in modern Japan, but the... -
In the Woods of Memory by Shun Medoruma 9781611720372
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44a new voice in Japanese literature makes its debut here in Medoruma's first full-length work in English; bears some resemblance to Kenji Nakagami in the toughness of his prose and grappling with... -
Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball by 9781611720730
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $36.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611720730Format HardbackImprint Stone Bridge PressPublisher Stone Bridge Press -
Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World by Kamo no Chomei
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.31Japan's capital city of Kyoto was devastated by earthquake, storm, and fire in the late 12th century. Retreating from "this unkind world," the poet and Buddhist priest Kamo-no-Chomei left the capital... -
The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan by Abigail Friedman 9781933330044
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15The problem came to a head one day as I was driving through Tokyo. While waiting for the light to change, I saw the following public service announcement on the side of a bus: Omoiyari hitonikurumani... -
Shinto Meditations for Revering the Earth: Meditations for Revering the Earth by Stuart D. B. Picken
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60These devotions inspired by ancient Shinto rituals are a series of calls-and-response that directly address the awesome power of the natural world to heal and restore the soul. Readers are invited to... -
Tokio Whip by Arturo Silva 9781611720334
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $22.82Roberta, Lang and their friends experience the great Japanese city in all its manifestations to their inquiring, observing, and wandering minds as they banter over the details of a party, a film,... -
The Art of Setting Stones: & Other Writings from the Japanese Garden by Marc Keane 9781880656709
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description... -
A Glossary of Zen Terms by Hisao Inagaki 9781611720280
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $47.72Over the course of Zen's development in China and Japan, the sayings and episodes of the masters have formed a huge collection of literature. Designed to put these writings within easy reach of... -
The Silver Spoon: Memoir of a Boyhood in Japan by Kansuke Naka 9781611720198
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $19.00Perhaps the most admired childhood memoir ever written in Japan, The Silver Spoon is a sharp detailing of life at the end of the Meiji period (1912) through the eyes of a boy as he grows into... -
The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition: A Century of Japanese Animation by Jonathan Clements
RRP: $110.93Booksplease Price: $93.00"Impressive, exhaustive, labyrinthine, and obsessive The Anime Encyclopedia is an astonishing piece of work." Neil Gaiman Over one thousand new entries . . . over four thousand updates . . . over... -
Kanji Box: Japanese Character Collection by Shogo Oketani 9781611720327
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60Bold, visual, profound, symbolic: Japanese kanji characters communicate powerful graphic messages that look great on skin, walls, stationery, T-shirts, and more Here are dozens of edgy, targeted... -
A Shameful Life: (Ningen Shikkaku) by Osamu Dazai 9781611720440
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55Osamu Dazai is one of the most famous--and infamous--writers of 20th-century Japan. A Shameful Life (Ningen shikkaku) is his final published work and has become a bestselling classic for its... -
Kanji Pict-o-Graphix: Over 1,000 Japanese Kanji and Kana Mnemonics by Michael Rowley 9780962813702
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15"Kanji Pict-o-Graphix offers an engaging way to learn and memorize Kanji."-Rocky Mountain Region Japan Project "A fun book for studying kanji. The illustration reveals more of its contents and... -
The Care and Use of Japanese Woodworking Tools: Saws, Planes, Chisels, Marking Gauges, Stones by Kip Mesirow 9781933330136
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15Japanese tools are manufactured to perform at the high level top craftspeople demand, but they work differently from Western tools-saws cut on the pull, not the push-and need to be properly... -
The Making of Modern China: The Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty (1368-1912) by Jing Liu 9781611720396
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.28"Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read." Asian Review of Books on Division to Unification in Imperial ChinaThe fourth volume in the... -
The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film by Tom Mes 9781880656891
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $39.85An eye-opening portrait of a vibrant film culture, The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film is the most comprehensive study of the Japanese filmmaking scene yet written. Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp... -
The Little Exile by Jeanette Arakawa 9781611720365
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20An American girl of Japanese ancestry is exiled in her own country after Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. After Pearl Harbor, little Marie Mitsui, who considers herself a typical American girl, sees her... -
Evening Clouds: A Novel by Junzo Shono 9781880656488
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20A masterpiece of quiet lyricism against a backdrop of change and renewalAbout the AuthorJunzo Shono was born in 1921 and lives in Kawasaki, Japan. Has won numerous literary awards, including the... -
Wind and Stone by Stephen W. Kohl 9780962813771
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55Mizue is a Japanese housewife. Kase is a garden designer hired by her husband to landscape their home. As the garden takes shape, Mizue wakens to a new sensuality and desire. A disturbing tale of... -
Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . & Their Friends by Gil Asakawa 9781611720228
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20This entertaining compendium is a celebration of Japanese American history and heritage. While detailing favorite foods, customs, words, games, and holidays, it explores the painful history of... -
Japaneseness: A Guide to Values and Virtues by Yoji Yamakuse 9781611720266
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95This book looks at the core life concepts and shared values that historically and culturally define the quality of "being Japanese." Among these are reverence, love of nature, group loyalty,... -
Still Life and Other Stories Junzo Shono 9781880656020
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97Thirteen stories are linked by the daily life of a husband and wife and their three childrenAbout the AuthorJunzo Shono was born in 1921 and lives in Kawasaki, Japan. Has won numerous literary... -
Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima by Naoki Inose 9781611720648
RRP: $55.46Booksplease Price: $44.54A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide. Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose... -
Kanazawa by David Joiner 9781611720716
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20In Kanazawa, the first literary novel in English to be set in this storied Japanese city, Emmitt's future plans collapse when his wife, Mirai, suddenly backs out of negotiations to purchase their... -
My Heart Sutra: A World in 260 Characters by Frederik L. Schodt
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The Heart Sutra is the most widely read, chanted, and copied text in East Asian Buddhism. Here Frederik L. Schodt explores his lifelong fascination with the sutra: its mesmerizing mantra, its ancient... -
Division to Unification in Imperial China: The Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty (220 907) by Jing Liu 9781611720303
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.28Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics series answers these questions and more.Division to... -
Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity: The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Yuan Dynasty (907 - 1368) by Jing Liu 9781611720341
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.28"An excellent introduction to the large trends of early Chinese history; ideal for those new to the subject."--School Library Journal (review of volume 1) This latest volume in the Understanding... -
Tokyo Stroll: A Guide to City Sidetracks and Easy Explorations by Gilles Poitras
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97Tokyo Stroll is the best guidebook for travelers who want to wander the streets and discover the city as it unfolds before their eyes. There is no "start at point A and go to point B" prescribed...