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Classical Japanese: A Grammar by Haruo Shirane 9780231135245
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.15Classical Japanese: A Grammar is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced... -
Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary by Haruo Shirane
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.50In 2005, the celebrated scholar of Japanese literature Haruo Shirane published Classical Japanese: A Grammar. Now, with Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary, he completes his two-volume... -
The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of 'The Tale of Genji' by Haruo Shirane 9780804717199
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The Bridge of Dreams is a brilliant reading of The Tale of Genji that succeeds both as a sophisticated work of literary criticism and as an introduction this world masterpiece. Taking account of... -
The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales by Haruo Shirane 9780231152457
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal (setsuwa) literature. These... -
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho by Haruo Shirane
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and yet there has been remarkably little serious scholarship in English on his achievement. This book is intended... -
The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales by Haruo Shirane 9780231152440
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.38Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal (setsuwa) literature. These... -
Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane 9780804741057
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Today the term "Japanese literary classics" implies such texts as the Man'yoshu, Kojiki, Tale of Genji, Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, and the works of Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho, which are... -
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 by Haruo Shirane 9780231109918
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £50.35This is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa, one of the most creative epochs of... -
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho by Haruo Shirane 9780804730990
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and yet there has been remarkably little serious scholarship in English on his achievement. This book is intended... -
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts by Haruo Shirane 9780231152815
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media-from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual... -
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Abridged Edition) by Haruo Shirane
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.49This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book... -
Itadakimasu! The Food Culture of Japan: いただきます！ by Becky A. Brown
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Itadakimasu! The Food Culture of Japan is designed as a first- or second-year college course in Japanese culture for students who have little to no background in the Japanese language, culture,... -
The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature: Discrimination, Egalitarianism, Nationalism by Fuminobu Murakami
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This book uses texts from classical to modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and 'sympathy for the weak', as a notion of... -
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader by James Shea 9781032272658
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an... -
Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000–1919 by Benjamin Elman 9789004305953
Booksplease Price: £48.46The authors consider new views of the classical versus vernacular dichotomy that are especially central to the new historiography of China and East Asian languages. Based on recent debates initiated... -
The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost by Sok-pom Kim 9780231153119
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.56The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost incorporates Korean folk tales, ghost stories, and myth into a phenomenal depiction of epic tragedy. Written by a zainichi, a permanent resident of Japan who is... -
Record of Miraculous Events in Japan: The Nihon ryoiki by Burton Watson 9780231164207
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £82.80The Nihon ryoiki, a collection of setsuwa, or "anecdotal" tales, compiled by a monk in late-eighth- or early-ninth-century Japan, records the spread of Buddhist ideas in Japan and the ways in which... -
Embodied Performance: Warriors, Dancers, and the Origins of Noh Theater Translator Janet Goff 9780231212267
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.62Winner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei-a leading scholar of noh theater-provides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japan's most celebrated... -
Embodied Performance: Warriors, Dancers, and the Origins of Noh Theater Translator Janet Goff 9780231212274
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Winner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei-a leading scholar of noh theater-provides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japan's most celebrated... -
Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics by William Theodore De Bary 9780231153966
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.44Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics is an essential, all-access guide to the core texts of East Asian civilization and culture. Essays address frequently read, foundational texts in Chinese,... -
Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics by William Theodore De Bary 9780231153973
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.20Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics is an essential, all-access guide to the core texts of East Asian civilization and culture. Essays address frequently read, foundational texts in Chinese,... -
The Tales of the Heike by Burton Watson 9780231138031
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the... -
Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Basho by Steven D. Carter
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four... -
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales by Keller Kimbrough
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £111.08Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and... -
Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Basho by Steven D. Carter 9780231156486
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.33While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four... -
Reading The Tale of Genji: Sources from the First Millennium by Thomas L. Harper 9780231166584
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £57.35The Tale of Genji, written one thousand years ago, is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, is often regarded as the best prose fiction in the language. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets,... -
The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature by Michael Emmerich
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.85Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations of the work from the 1830s to the 1950s, he... -
The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature by Michael Emmerich 9780231162722
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £119.10Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations of the work from the 1830s to the 1950s, he... -
Light and Dark: A Novel by Natsume Soseki 9780231161428
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.92Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological... -
Light and Dark: A Novel by Natsume Soseki 9780231161435
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.55Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological... -
Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China's Three Gorges by Corey Byrnes
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.55In 1994, workers broke ground on China's Three Gorges Dam. By its completion in 2012, the dam had transformed the ecology of the Yangzi River, displaced over a million people, and forever altered a...