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I Am A Cat |
| 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 the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on |
by: Natsume Soseki
Aiko Ito, Translator
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8048-3265-6 |
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Romance Of The Three Kingdoms Volume 1 |
| The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Lo Kuan-chung's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 A.D., one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods in Chinese history. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory |
by: Lo Kuan-Chung
Robert E. Hegel, Introduction
C. H. Brewitt-Taylor, Translator
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-8048-3467-4 |
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Japanese Death Poems |
| Although the consciousness of death is in most cultures very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem" written in the very last moments of the poet's li |
by: Yoel Hoffmann
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8048-3179-6 |
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The 47 Ronin Story |
| 47 Ronin Story is the classic Japanese story of Lord Asano of Ako and one of the bloodiest vendettas in Japan's feudal history. In a shocking clash between the warriors and the merchant class of seventeenth century Japan, there emerged the most unlikely set of heroes--the forty-sev |
by: John Allyn
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-8048-3827-6 |
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Bangkok Babylon |
| In the colorful tradition of Orwell and Hemingway, Maugham and Theroux, Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling twenty-five of the city’s most unforgettable characters. Among them are a Catholic priest who has lived and worked in the Bangkok slums for 35 |
by: Jerry Hopkins
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8048-4077-4 |
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The Tale Of Genji |
| Centuries before Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji was already acknowledged as a classic of Japanese literature. Over the past century, this book has gained worldwide acceptance as not only the world's first novel, but as one of the greatest works of literature of al |
by: Murasaki Shikibu
Arthur Waley, Translator
Dennis Washburn, Foreword
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-4-8053-1081-6 |
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At Home In Japan |
| At Home in Japan tells the true story of a foreign woman who has been, for 30 years, the housewife, custodian and chatelaine of a 350-year-old farmhouse in rural Japan. This astonishing book traces a circular path, from the basic physical details of life in the house and village, th |
by: Rebecca Otowa
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 978-4-8053-1078-6 |
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Romance Of The Three Kingdoms Volume 2 |
| The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Lo Kuan-chung's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 A.D., one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods in Chinese history. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory |
by: Lo Kuan-Chung
Robert E. Hegel, Introduction
C. H. Brewitt-Taylor, Translator
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-8048-3468-1 |
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Bushido |
This classic introduction to the chivalric code of honor of the samurai will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in Japanese philosophy, military history, and the samurai era.
Inazo Nitobe, a Japanese philosopher writing in eloquent English, outlines the origins of bushido, o |
by: Inazo Nitobe
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-8048-3628-9 |
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The Water Margin |
| The Water Margin is one of the "Four Great Classical Novels" of Chinese literature. Based upon the story of the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions, this epic tale of a rebellion against tyranny has been thrilling and inspiring readers for hundreds of years. A stirring t |
by: Shi Naian
J.h. Jackson, Translator
Edwin Lowe, Introduction
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-8048-4095-8 |
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