Asian Reads
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Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Despite its centuries-long tradition of literary and artistic depictions of love between men, around the fin de siècle Japanese culture began to po...
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Hokusai: The Master's Legacy
PaperbackOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The legacy of the undisputed master of Ukiyo-e, from his artistic evolutions to the influence on and of his followersThe undisputed master of ukiyo...
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Pictures of the Floating World: An Introduction to Japanese Prints
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00Original price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In Edo Japan, woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e ("pictures of the Floating World") captured the entertainment culture of the urban elite and eventu...
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Kakemono: Five Centuries of Japanese Painting: The Perino Collection
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A comprehensive survey of kakemono, the classical Japanese art of the wall scrollSpanning Japanese painting from the 16th to the 19th centuries, th...
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Hokusai
HardcoverOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /His Great Wave off Kanagawa is the most famous work in East Asian art. Hokusai, a self-confessed eccentric and obsessive, created with his pictures...
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The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations ...
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The Art of Kaneoya Sachiko
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The first English-language collection of the titular artist, The Art of Sachiko Kaneoya chronicles the creator's work and themes for nearly a decad...
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Ideals of the East: The Spirit of Japanese Art
PaperbackOriginal price $6.95 - Original price $6.95Original price $6.95$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /Written by the foremost authority of the era on Oriental archeology and art, this extremely influential book offers a brief but concise introductio...
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Renegade EDO and Paris: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780932216076 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Seattle Art Museum Publication Date: 07-04-2023 Pages: 104
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Furoshiki: And the Japanese Art of Gift Wrapping
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Perfect the gift of giving. The only modern, practical guide to the ancient art of Japanese gift wrapping. Discover how to use Furoshiki – beauti...
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Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Tokyo, in the early aughts, was a weird place. Lonely single men wanted to marry action figures instead of women. High school girls worked at maid ...
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Breaking Into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text - Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A collection of seven great works of Japanese literature in the original language, along with the English translation and a newly-revised custom di...
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Japan: Arts and Life: The Montgomery Collection
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /A selection of textiles, paintings and more from a leading international collection of Japanese antiquitiesAmong the many ways that one can approac...
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The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the ninet...
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Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From ornately decorative to excruciatingly stringent, Japanese rope bondage is an art which has developed over centuries of martial and erotic pr...
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Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Terayama Shuji (1935-1983) was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, film director, and photographer known for his highly provocative work. In...
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Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular cultu...
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Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $26.50 - Original price $26.50Original price $26.50$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Based on the lives and crimes of no less than twenty real women, dokufu (poison women) narratives emerged as a powerful presence in Japan during ...
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Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The quintessential international genre, detective fiction often works under the guise of popular entertainment to expose its extensive readership...
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Punk Ikebana: Reimagining the Art of Floral Design
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Floral designer Louesa Roebuck shows you how to make transcendent eco-luxe compositions with seasonal flora foraged from the West Coast "The way of...
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Just Enough Design: Reflections on the Japanese Philosophy of Hodo-Hodo
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A Japanese designer offers a compelling alternative way to engage with our possessions, our history, our environment, and each other. The Japanese ...
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After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this af...
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Hiroshige
HardcoverOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Hiroshige is one of the most important artists of the Japanese woodblock print and is considered a master of "ukiyo-e," the "pictures of the floati...
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Comp Artist Sponsorship Campaign Official Artbook
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Showcasing 45 artists, from top industry professionals to talented high school illustrators. "COMP x Artists Sponsorship" features the artwork of t...
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