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The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Publisher Comments The Tale of Genji was written in the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady of the Heian court. It is universally recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Japanese prose narrative, perhaps the earliest true novel in the history of the world. Until... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Tale of Genji (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) by Murasaki Publisher Comments Centuries before Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji was already acknowledged as a classic of Japanese literature. Over the past century, this book has gained worldwide acceptance as not only the world's first novel, but as one of the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Poems from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth Publisher Comments The poems are drawn chiefly from the traditional Manyoshu, Kokinshu and Hyakunin Isshu collections, but there are also examplaes of haiku and other later forms. The sound of the Japanese texts i reproduced in Romaji script and the names of the poets in... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales by Haruo Shirane Publisher Comments Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal ( setsuwa) literature. These orally narrated and written tales drew on both local folk... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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Five Women Who Loved Love by Saikaku Publisher Comments First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto by Baisao Synopsis Baisao was an influential and unconventional figure in a culturally rich time period in Kyoto. A poet and Buddhist priest, he left the constrictions of temple life behind and at the age of 49 traveled to Kyoto, where he began to make his living by... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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One Robe, One Bowl: the Zen Poetry of Ryokan (06 Edition) by Ryokan Publisher Comments The hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in 11th-Century Japan by Ivan Morris Synopsis A Lady-in-waiting at a Heian court in medieval Japan records her personal feelings and reactions to social standards. Its shy and vulnerable author found happiness neither in her work at court nor with her family, and projected into her writing veiled... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tale of Genji by M Shikibu Publisher Comments In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics) by Shikibu Murasaki Publisher Comments A translation of the diary of Japan's most acclaimed prose writer. Part of the "Penguin Classics" fiftieth anniversary promotion.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life of an Amorous Man by Saikaku Synopsis First published in 1682, The Life of an Amorous Man depicts the pursuits and follies of the most glorious age of Japan, when wealthy commoners could rise above the warrior caste and indulge in the free and easy life of Japan's pleasure houses. The hero... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Love Songs from the Man'yoshu: Selections from a Japanese Classic by Kodansha Publisher Comments The Man'yoshu ("The Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves") is the first anthology of Japanese poetry and considered by many to be the greatest. The collection consists of over 4,500 poems, dating back to the seventh and eighth centuries, the first golden... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Ise Stories =: Ise Monogatari by Joshua S Mostow Publisher Comments Ise monogatari is one of classical Japan's most important texts. It influenced other literary court romances like The Tale of Genji and inspired artists, playwrights, and poets throughout Japanese history and to the present day. In a series of 125... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pillow Book (Penguin Classics) by Sei Shonagon Publisher Comments The classic portrayal of court life in tenth-century Japan Written by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, The Pillow Book offers a fascinating exploration of life among the nobility at the height of the Heian period... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Japanese Death Poems : Written By Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death (86 Edition) by Yoel Hoffmann Publisher Comments Although the consciousness of death is in most cultures very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem" written in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Just Living: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Tonna (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Tonna Publisher Comments One of the best scholar-translators in the field presents a selection of writings by Tonna (1289--1372), an outstanding medieval Buddhist poet-monk, very little of whose work has been translated until now. Tonna was regarded as the leading Nijo? poet of... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ink Dark Moon : Love Poems By Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (90 Edition) by Jane Hirshfield Publisher Comments These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Publisher Comments One of the world's oldest novels and the greatest single work of Japanese literature, this 11th-century romance centers on the lives and loves of an emperor's son. It offers a vast tapestry of the intrigues and rivalries of court life, as well as an... (read more) Your price: $3.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Woman's Weapon: Spirit Possession in the Tale of Genji by Doris G. Bargen Publisher Comments In this subtle and highly original reading of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century classic The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), Doris G. Bargen explores the role of possessing spirits (mono no ke) from a female viewpoint. In several key episodes of the... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $23.96 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Tale of Genji by Yoshitaka Amano Publisher Comments Yoshitaka Amano has been praised around the world for his lush watercolors and evocative work dealing with myth and legend. In The Tale of Genji, Mr. Amano brings his considerable talent to retelling one of the most famous of Japanese myths. Written by... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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