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In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature Ser.
A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates... Were it not for shadows, there would be n ...Show more
Japanese Short Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Category: Short Stories | Series: Japanese Classics Ser.
Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov by Kenji Miyazawa; Julianne Neville (Translator)
Category: Short Stories | Series: Modern Japanese Classics Ser.
Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is one of Japans most beloved writers and poets, known particularly for his sensitive and symbolist childrens fiction. This volume collects stories which focus on Miyazawas love of space and his use of the galaxy as a metaphor for the concepts of purity, self-sacrifice and fai ...Show more
Soseki Natsume's Kokoro: The Manga Edition: The Heart of Things by Soseki Natsume
Category: Eastern | Series: Tuttle Japanese Classics in Manga Ser.
A timeless psychological study of a young man's deep alienation from society.Set in the early 20th century, Kokoro opens with a chance encounter on a beach near Tokyo that irrevocably links a young student to a man he simply calls Sensei (Teacher). Intrigued by Sensei's aloofness, the student calls upon ...Show more
Taiheiki a Chronicle of Medieval太平記 by Helen Craig McCullough (Translator)
Category: Sports and Hobbies | Series: Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature Ser.
An epic saga of samurai warfare in medieval Japan This celebrated literary classic has delighted generations of Japanese. In its pages, you will find a vivid contemporary description of the fourteenth-century intrigues and battles that led to the destruction of the Hojo family, the military overlord ...Show more
The Tosa Diary by Ki no Tsurayuki
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature Ser.
The Tosa Diary represents the oldest extant Japanese prose fiction and the beginnings of the great tradition of diary literature. Written in 935, the book is the record of an arduous 55-day 200-mile journey by sea from Tosa, where the author had served as a governor, to Kyoto, the capital. Narrated in t ...Show more
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