A Dark Night's Passing

Literature & Fiction

Shiga, Naoya

Contemporary

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Requiem,

Go, Shizuko

Harcourt, Geraldine

Japanese Kana Workbook

O'Neill, P.G.

Dust jacket encased in Mylar. Very light edge wear. Gift quality. Same day shipping.

Japan Patterns of Continuity

Politics & Social Sciences

Maraini, Fosca

Social Sciences

Verse and prose observations of a seventeenth-century writer during his travels through Japan

Haiku Journey: Basho's the Narrow Road to the Far North and Selected Haiku

Bashō, Matsuo

Stock, Dennis

Matsuo, Bashō

Britton, D. Guyver

Poetry

Book by National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

Craft Treasures of Okinawa

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

Masterpieces of Western and Near Eastern Ceramics

Reinheckel, G.

Arts & Photography

Like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Botchan, a hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, is a classic. Among both young and old in Japan, it has enjoyed a timeless popularity, making it, in the words of Donald Keene, "probably the most widely read novel in modern Japan."

Botchan

Sōseki, Natsume

Literary

A colorful pictorial history of Kyoto captures the splendor of the ancient imperial capital with its storied temples and flamboyant festivals, focusing on the Kyoto of the distant past and on modern Kyoto

Introducing Kyoto

Travel

Plutschow, Herbert E.

Asia

The beautiful, immature girl whom she took home to her husband was a maid only in name. Tomo's real mission had been to find him a mistress. Nor did her secret humiliation end there. The web that his insatiable lust spun about him soon trapped another young woman, and another ... and the relationships between the women thus caught were to form, over the years, a subtle, shifting pattern in which they all played a part. There was Suga, the innocent, introspective girl from a respectable but impoverished family; the outgoing, cheerful, almost boyish Yumi; the flirtatious, seductive Miya, who soon found her father-in-law more dependable as a man than his brutish son.... And at the center, rejected yet dominating them all, the near tragic figure of the wife Tomo, whose passionate heart was always, until that final day, held in check by an old-fashioned code. 
In a series of colorful, unforgettable scenes, Enchi brilliantly handles the human interplay within the ill-fated Shirakawa family. Japan's leading woman novelist and a member of the prestigious Art Academy, she combines a graceful, evocative style that consciously echoes the Tale of Genji with keen insight and an impressive ability to develop her characters over a long period of time. Her work is rooted deep in the female psychology, and it is her women above all--so clearly differentiated yet all so utterly feminine--who live in the memory. With The Waiting Years, a new and important literary figure makes her debut in the Western world.

The Waiting Years (Japan's Women Writers)

Enchi, Fumiko

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