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The Complete Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi Publisher Comments The Complete Book of Five Rings is an authoritative version of Musashi’s classic The Book of Five Rings, translated and annotated by a modern martial arts master, Kenji Tokitsu. Tokitsu has spent most of his life researching the legendary samurai... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Basho About the Author Basho, the Japanese poet and diarist, was born in Iga-ueno near Kyoto in 1644. He spent his youth as companion to the son of the local lord, and with him he studied the writing of seventeen-syllable verse. In 1667 he moved to Edo (now Tokyo) where he... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo Publisher Comments |Hagakure ("In the Shadow of Leaves"') is a manual for the samurai classes consisting of a series of short anecdotes and reflections that give both insight and instruction-in the philosophy and code of behavior that foster the true spirit of Bushido-the... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 by Murasaki Shikibu Publisher Comments This biographical novel centers around the amorous exploits of Prince Hikaru Genji, whose elegance and talent epitomized the values of Heian Japan, an era in which indigenous Japanese culture still held prominence over the Chinese culture that would come... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover
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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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Japan : Its History and Culture (4TH 05 Edition) by W. Scott Morton Publisher Comments Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods, Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes and departures from tradition are becoming more common in this conservative country. The revised edition of... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance by Andy Couturier Publisher Comments Raised in the tumult of Japan’s industrial powerhouse, the eleven men and women profiled in this book have all made the transition to sustainable, fulfilling lives. They are today artists, philosophers, and farmers who reside deep in the mountains... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - 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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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts by Haruo Shirane Publisher Comments Elegant representations of nature, explicitly the four seasons, fill a wide range of Japanese genres and media--from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and annual observances. Haruo Shirane shows, for the first time, how... (read more) Your price: $29.50 New - Hardcover
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Shinto and the State, 1868-1988 (Studies in Church & State) by Helen Hardacre Publisher Comments Helen Hardacre, a leading scholar of religious life in modern Japan, examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of shinto from the Meiji Restoration to the present. Nowhere else in modern history do we find so pronounced an example of... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - 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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Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa by Robert Hass Publisher Comments American readers have been fascinated, since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shinto: The Way Home by Thomas P. Kasulis Publisher Comments Nine out of ten Japanese claim some affiliation with Shinto, but in the West the religion remains the least studied of the major Asian spiritual traditions. It is so interlaced with Japanese cultural values and practices that scholarly studies usually... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $15.09 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami by John Breen Publisher Comments The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics on Shinto and kami in history, including the profound formative influence of Taoism on Shinto in early Japan; the relationship between shrine cults and nature; the role of shrine and temple ritual in... (read more) Your price: $39.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government by Nakae Chomin Publisher Comments A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government takes the form of a debate between a spokesman for Western ideals of democracy and progress, and an advocate for adherence to traditional samurai values. Their discussion is moderated by the imperturbable... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mount Fuji: Icon of Japan (Studies in Comparative Religion) by H. Byron Earhart Publisher Comments The first comprehensive English-language study of the evolving religious and aesthetic symbolism of the world's most famous... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Hardcover
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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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Soul of the Samurai by Thomas Cleary Publisher Comments Thomas Cleary's translation of Code of the Samurai introduced the social, political, and organizational principles of samurai culture, including loyalty to family, a sense of service and duty, and the rules for dealing with allies and enemies. In Soul of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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In a Japanese Garden by Charmaine Aserappa Publisher Comments Lovers of Japanese meditation gardens, tea ceremonies, exquisite rice papers, and finely-bound collections of haiku will be charmed by the look and feel of handmade paper in the jacket and endpapers, and the tranquil Eastern sensibility of this beautiful... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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