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The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'A mistress of wry observation and scalding wit ... The Pillow Book retains its fresh, authentic appeal more than 1,000 years after its inception' Japan TimesWritten by the court gentlewoman Sei... -
A Lady in Kyoto by Sei Shonagon 9780241752081
RRP: $11.38Booksplease Price: $9.0190 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksAll moonlight is moving, wherever it may be...Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in the Emperor's... -
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon 9780486834436
Booksplease Price: $7.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486834436Author Sei ShonagonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Worlding Sei Shonagon: The Pillow Book in Translation by Valerie Henitiuk 9780776607283
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $40.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan Arthur Waley 9784805314623
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.88Take a firsthand journey into a time, society and world full of intrigue. In the tenth century, Japan stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Sei Shonagon-a young... -
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan by Arthur Waley 9784805311080
Booksplease Price: $18.05Japan in the 10th century stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Inside this bubble, a subtle and beautiful world was in operation, and its inhabitants were tied to the... -
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner 9781501129025
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history's greatest thinkers and showing us how each-from... -
Gossamer Years: Love, Passion and Marriage in Ancient Japan - The Intimate Diary of a Female Courtier in Old Japan by Edward G. Seidensticker
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59"A self-portrait devastating in its honesty...written passionately and without a thought to how readers might judge her actions."-Donald KeeneGossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an... -
Gossamer Years: Love, Passion and Marriage in Old Japan - The Intimate Diary of a Female Courtier Edward G. Seidensticker 9780804859691
RRP: $11.38Booksplease Price: $9.35"A self-portrait devastating in its honesty...written passionately and without a thought to how readers might judge her actions."-Donald KeeneGossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an... -
Three Japanese Buddhist Monks by Saigyo
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky'These simple, inspiring writings by three medieval Buddhist monks offer peace and... -
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu 9780393427912
Booksplease Price: $16.55About Dennis Washburn's translation "Washburn's version of Murasaki Shikibu's masterpiece is lucid and engaging, irresistibly drawing the reader further and further into the story and the exquisite... -
Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $16.32Literally meaning 'Pillow of Grass', Kusamakura is Soseki's portrayal of an artist who opposes convention and logic, and shuns emotional involvement. Soseki's artist attempts to live as a hermit... -
Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho by Meredith McKinney
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Shortlisted for the NSW Translation Prize Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West - a richly literary tradition extending through a thousand years and more, whose individual works... -
Noh Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley 9784805310335
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $18.77The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English.The classic Japanese plays can be read for their great literary merit and also provide the reader with an understanding... -
Notes on the Art of Life Haim Shapira 9781786787736
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95Notes on the Art of Life is Haim Shapira's version of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book - a discursive and intensely personal collection of thoughts on life; a tribute to the importance of the here and now;... -
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Set in the early twentieth century, when the death of the emperor... -
Sparrow Kim Todd 9781861898753
RRP: $28.41Booksplease Price: $22.34Innocent. Invader. Lover. Thief. Sparrows are everywhere, in many guises. They are cherished pets, subject of elegies by Catullus and John Skelton, listed as 'pretty things' in Sei Shonagon's Pillow... -
Brain Fever: Poems Kimiko Hahn (Queens College, City University of New York) 9780393354409
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $28.01Acclaimed as "one of the most fascinating female poets of our time" (BOMB), Kimiko Hahn is a shape-shifter, a poet who seeks novel forms for her utterly original subject matter and "stands as a... -
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki by Meredith McKinney
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $17.46These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hojoki, Chomei recounts his decision to withdraw... -
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One Hundred Poems from Old Japan: A New Translation of the Hyakunin Isshu [With Free Online Audio Recordings] Michael Freiling 9784805319239
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.12"Translated with both grace and precision, the poems are elegant expressions of the depth of human emotion." -William Scott Wilson, renowned translator of Japanese literatureIn the pale dawnyour...