Fiction - Asian Reads
-
Longing and Other Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Jun’ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, ero...
View full details -
A Girl with Tangled Hair: The 399 tanka in Midaregami ? Tangled Hair by Akiko Yosano
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /For the first time all the tanka in Akiko Yosano's 1901 book, Midaregami - Tangled Hair, have been translated into English. Each of the tanka has...
View full details -
The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a ...
View full details -
Rashomon and Other Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Before his tragic death in 1927, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, author of "Rashomon," one of the most renowned stories of Japanese literature, wrote more t...
View full details -
The Pocket Haiku
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A collection of classical Japanese haiku selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators.Haiku is one of the most popular an...
View full details -
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demon...
View full details -
The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would con...
View full details -
Wild Lines and Poetic Travels: A Keijiro Suga Reader
HardcoverOriginal price $111.00 - Original price $111.00Original price $111.00$136.99$136.99 - $136.99Current price $136.99| /This volume brings together an international group of scholars, artists, and translators to analyze Suga Keijiro’s multifaceted work. Product De...
View full details -
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Volume 1: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945 / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$181.99$181.99 - $181.99Current price $181.99| /This comprehensive anthology collects works of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay-writing from a pivotal time in Japanese history. In addition to ...
View full details -
Learn Japanese Book for Beginners: Learn Practical & Conversational Japanese, Hiragana & Katakana
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Are you ready to start speaking, writing, and understanding Japanese in minutes?Are you planning to travel to Japan but are worried about the langu...
View full details -
Names and Rivers
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A bilingual Japanese-English presentation of Shuri Kido'spoetry, co-translated by Pulitzer prize-winner Forrest GanderShuri Kido, known as the "far...
View full details -
Shima: Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $18.50Original price $18.50 - Original price $18.50Original price $18.50Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A vivid, expansive vision of intergenerational witness and repair.The village is tilting on its axis. It is turning. All its organs are spilling ...
View full details -
Haiku: Japanese Art and Poetry
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The graceful, evocative haiku featured here were composed by the renowned Japanese haiku masters of the past four hundred years, including Matsuo B...
View full details -
Is It Poetry?
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A profound collection of poetry from Japanese poet Hirata, expounding on readership and everyday life. American readers’ awareness of contemporar...
View full details -
Eight Dogs, or Hakkenden: Part Two--His Master's Blade
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most p...
View full details -
Eight Dogs, or Hakkenden: Part Two--His Master's Blade
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most p...
View full details -
Since Fukushima
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In the days following the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011, poet Wago Ryoichi started a twitter feed. Living just 80 km away fro...
View full details -
The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Vasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist fro...
View full details -
The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /Vasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist fro...
View full details -
Uncovering Japanese Mythology
PaperbackOriginal price $24.25Original price $24.25 - Original price $24.25Original price $24.25Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Are you interested in discovering the rich world of Japanese myth and folklore? Have you always wanted to know more about the history of Japan, and...
View full details -
Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism argues that gender is best understood as a felt sense of the orga...
View full details -
Distance
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Dynamic, lyrical, and nuanced, this collection is simply delightful. The twin functions of poetry as intimate dialogue and a form of play between ...
View full details -
Haruki Murakami and His Early Work: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Running Artist
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In the context of Haruki Murakami's real-life activities that are conducive to his writing, this book sheds light on three of his early short stori...
View full details -
The Art and Life of Fukuda Kodojin: Japan's Great Poet and Landscape Artist
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The most comprehensive book on Kodojin's art ever published--beautiful and mysterious--a collection of more than 100 paintings with English transla...
View full details