Japanese Books


Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Best Price: $8.46 I saw Kurosawa's Rashomon and thought that Akutagawa's stories used to build the movie fable...	Kusamakura (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.92 "Kusamakura" is surely one of the weirdest novels of the twentieth century. A very...	The Tale of Genji (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.00 "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu is recognized as the world's first true novel....	The Tale of Genji Best Price: $5.00 Great service. Condition of book was stellar and it was delivered in a very timely manner.	The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) Best Price: $8.87 I have to say I truly enjoyed this book from cover to cover. If you enjoy Japanese History, or...



The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $11.26 Yukio Mishima was to receive the Nobel Prize for literature the year he committed suicide. I...	The Tales of Genji (Modern Library) Best Price: $32.14 I had to read this book for class. It wasn't that good. Conversations get confusing because...	Historical Fiction of Mori Ogai (Unesco Collection of Representative Works Japanese Series) Best Price: $22.22 David Dilworth presents the reader with a great compilation of short stories of, arguably,...	Al Sur De La Frontera, Al Oeste Del Sol / South of the Border, West of the Sun (Andanzas / Adventures) (Andanzas / Adventures) Best Price: $12.70 It is good reading for savoring a little bit of another culture yet quite similar to ours when...	Youth and Other Stories (Shaps Library of Translations) Best Price: $18.00



Twenty-Four Eyes: A Novel (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) Best Price: $1.41 Twenty-Four Eyes tracks the growth of twelve innocent children from childhood to adulthood...	Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds Best Price: $42.30	Sanshiro: A Novel (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) Best Price: $27.60 I rate this irony laden story on par with Soseki's most important novel, 'Kokoro.' Joseph...	Tale of Genji: A Reader's Guide This book was writen as a companion to two earlier translations. However it serves well to...	Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women's Literature Best Price: $19.75 A magnificent survey and original interpretation of the concept of "women's...

The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizakis Fiction (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Best Price: $33.32	Autumn Wind and Other Stories (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) Best Price: $8.27 "Autumn Wind and Other Stories" is a curious collection. Basically it collects...	Stories of Osaka Life (Unesco Collection of Representative Works. Japanese Series) Best Price: $11.88 I have a tremendous interest in Asian culture, and bought this book for myself on a whim. It...	The Legend of Gold and Other Stories Best Price: $30.00 Ishikawa Jun is an author largely unknown in the west, and it is regrettable that his anti-war...	The Makioka Sisters (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $11.93 I bought this book because Min Jin Lee, authore of "Free Food for Millionaires,"...

Mistress Oriku: Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) Best Price: $10.98 I love this book and Mistress Oriku as well. A perusal of Misrress Oriku as well as much of...	The River with No Bridge (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) Best Price: $10.78 Written during the 1960s, this courageous work explores the intolerance and bigotry faced daily...	Dawn to the West Best Price: $103.11 I'm studying Japanese letterature at university and among my various book, i think that Donald...	The House Spirit: And Other Stories Best Price: $10.77	Botchan (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) Best Price: $3.70 In Japan Botchan grew up knowing his father thought he was a worthless wastrel; his mother, who...

A Late Chrysanthemum (Tut Books) Best Price: $1,929.35 this is my introduction to japanese stories and also one of my favourite collections of short...	Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishosetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Best Price: $43.73 Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit brings a sophisticated and graceful method of analysis to this...	Love of Mountains: Two Stories Best Price: $12.94 First of Dr. Gerbert wrote an outstanding introduction to these two stories. She not only gives...	The Sick Rose: A Pastoral Elegy Best Price: $89.41	The Willow in Autumn: Ryutei Tanehiko (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series) Best Price: $30.50

Modern Japanese Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary	Kokoro (Biblioteca Universal/ Universal Library) Best Price: $45.56	Japanese Women Fiction Writers: Their Culture and Society, 1890s to 1990s: English Language Sources Best Price: $135.00 This study provides annotations for three hundred translated works of fiction by 97 Japanese...	The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction (Studies of the East Asian Institute) Washburn's book reflects an intellectual power and unconventional creativity that goes back at...	Seven Stories of Modern Japan (University of Sydney East Asian Series, No 5) Best Price: $16.00

The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishosetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction Best Price: $6.63 The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the...	Lotus and Other Tales of Medieval Japan	The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) Best Price: $14.94 "In highly informed yet sympathetic and persuasive terms, Norma Field delineates the...	Grass on the Wayside (Michigan classics in Japanese studies) unlike many of his contempoaries, Natsume Soseki did not follow the path of the shishosetsu, or...	Reading Against Culture: Ideology and Narrative in the Japanese Novel Best Price: $49.40 Reading against Culture starts from the problem that a concept of "culture" is both...

Genji & Heike: Selections from The Tale of Genji and The Tale of the Heike Best Price: $49.95 Recent publications have rendered Helen McCullough's volume almost obsolete. We now have three...	Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata (Kodansha Biographies) Best Price: $66.41	Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1879-1959 (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) Japanese literature has been regarded for far too long in a patronising light as 'exotic' and...	Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Best Price: $41.49 Unlike the dry monographs that usually pepper the field of Japanese literary criticism, Atsuko...	Oe and Beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan This book gathers together several essays on contemporary Japanese authors. Most of the...

The Fiction of Tokuda Shusei, and the Emergence of Japan's New Middle Class	Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series) Best Price: $41.99 In the infinite wisdom of the previous reviewer it was noted that this book is not about...	Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) Best Price: $76.47 The literary legacies of World War II have been mixed and varied, especially in West Germany and...	Picking and Choosing: Essays on Prose Best Price: $19.00	Gender Is Fair Game: (Re)Thinking The(Fe)Male in the Works of Oba Minako (Japanese Women Writing)

Complicit Fictions: The Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose Narrative (Twentieth-Century Japan : the Emergence of a World Power) In Complicit Fictions, James Fujii challenges traditional approaches to the study of Japanese...	During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade Best Price: $57.92 As Lane Dulop explains in the brief introduction to this book. Nagai Kafu was a ghrumpy man who...	The Great Mirror of Male Love Best Price: $69.97 I am writing two papers on the novels of Ihara Saikaku this semester and my Japanese history and...	Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity

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