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Haiku Landscapes
by Stephen Addiss  Publisher Comments Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson--all written on themes of the mountains, forests, rivers, and rugged seascapes of Japan--are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan. The poems...
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A Haiku Garden
by Stephen (edt) Addiss Publisher Comments Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson--all written on themes of the beauty of nature--are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan. The poems appear both in skillful English translation...
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Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
by Leona Koren Publisher Comments Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional....
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Training the Samurai Mind: A Bushido Sourcebook
by Thomas Cleary Publisher Comments Honor, fearlessness, calm, decisive action, strategic thinking, and martial prowess have been the hallmarks of the Japanese samurai culture through the ages. Their ethos is known as bushido, or the way of the warrior-knight. Here is an insider's view of...
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House of the Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata Publisher Comments Three short stories center on a lonely protagonist and his peculiar eroticism. An enticing exploration of the interplay of fantasy and reality at work on a mind in solitude....
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Narrow Road to the Interior (Shambhala Centaur Editions)
by Matsuo Basho Publisher Comments Basho is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This volume includes beautiful Japanese-style illustrations by...
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Haiku People: Big and Small in Poems and Prints
by Stephen Addiss Synopsis Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson--all written on themes of people of various shapes and sizes, young and old--are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan. The poems appear both in...
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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...
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Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
by Osamu Dazai Publisher Comments Blue Bamboo is a collection of seven short stories by one of Japan's preeminent postwar writers and prose stylists, Osamu Dazai. Not the typical romantic fantasies so often seen in Japanese writing, filled with water sprites and vengeful ghosts, these...
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Japanese Tales
by Royall Tyler Publisher Comments A dazzling selection of over 200 tales from medieval Japan, including stories of miracle, visions of hell, jokes, fables and historical legends....
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Classic Haiku: The Greatest Japanese Poetry from Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, and Their Followers (Eternal Moments)
by Tom (edt) Lowenstein Publisher Comments Poetry aficionados will appreciate this beautifully designed and illustrated collection of 200 haiku by the four most celebrated Japanese poets of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries: Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki, who modernized the form and coined the...
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Narrow Road To the Interior and Other Writings (98 Edition)
by Matsuo Basho Synopsis Here is the most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644-1694)--who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty--is best known in the West as...
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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...
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Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan
by Helen Hardacre Publisher Comments Adherents of several hundred groups known as "new religions" include roughly one-third of the Japanese population, but these movements remain largely unstudied in the West. To account for their general similarity, Helen Hardacre identifies a common world...
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Anth. of Japanese Lit. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
by Donald Keene Publisher Comments The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in...
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Only Companion: Japanese Poems of Love and Longing (Shambhala Centaur Editions)
by Sam Hamill Publisher Comments Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the one hundred and fifty poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan's poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual...
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The Tale of Murasaki
by Liza Dalby Publisher Comments The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha. In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world?s first novel, The Tale of Genji, the...
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The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan (Translations from the Asian Classics)
by Rebecca Copeland Publisher Comments The first collection of its kind, "The Modern Murasaki" brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose selections, the anthology features short stories, plays...
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Secrets of the Samurai: The Martial Arts of Feudal Japan
by Oscar Ratti About the Author Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook met at Columbia University in New York, where he was doing graduate work in classical languages and she studying philosophy. Both share a longtime interest in the thought and rituals of ancient civilizations. Experts on...
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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,...
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