Stone Bridge Press: 69 books

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by Masaaki Tachihara
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998

The story of Mizue, a housewife, and Kase, a traditional-style garden designer hired by her husband to landscape their home. As the garden takes shape, Mizue wakens to a new sensuality and desire, and her carefully structured life begins to crumble. Explores the psychology of human passion in an oblique language filled with references to art and aesthetic values.
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The Art of Setting Stones

& Other Writings from the Japanese Garden

by Marc Peter Keane
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002

In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description and build into richly meditative excursions into art, Buddhism, nature, and science. Landscape architect...
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by Junzo Shono
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998

"Shono conveys both intimacy and distance, tranquility and tension, as he explores the shifting relations between husband and wife, father and son, brother and sister." -Publishers Weekly"These stories are so artful... they seem like the artless productions of life itself." -Kenyon College...
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Oh, Tama!

A Mejiro Novel

by Mieko Kanai
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019

Note, this book was released in Japan in 2014 by Kurodahan Press but never distributed to the trade outside Japan. The Translation Market this book will be of interest to readers of Japanese literature in translation, especially those looking for a "new voice"; there are 103...
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A Straight Road with 99 Curves

Coming of Age on the Path of Zen

by Gregory Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013

"Deeply involving, instructive, and capable of touching any reader who cares about the search for meaning."-Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America"In being so frank about his own struggles and fantasies, Greg's personal tale becomes something more universal."-David R. Loy, author of Money,...
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Division to Unification in Imperial China

The Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty (220–907)

by Jing Liu
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016

The second volume in a 5-volume series, builds on philosophical, economic, and political ideas introduced in first volume, e.g. the dynastic cycle, Buddhism, Confucianism, taxation. This book works as a stand-alone title. Gives readers solid grounding in important Jin, Sui, and Tang dynasties,...
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Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Yuan Dynasty (907 - 1368)

by Jing Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017

The third volume of the Understanding China Through Comics series, Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity, tells of the founding of the Song Dynasty and its attempts to reinvigorate a flagging economy and government while defending against invading barbarians and the eventual invasion of China by Genghis Khan and the Mongols.
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Foundations of Chinese Civilization

The Yellow Emperor to the Han Dynasty (2697 BCE - 220 CE)

by Jing Liu
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016

This is the only comic or graphic novel of its kind that addresses Chinese history both accessibly and accurately for all age levels. Taps into librarians, educators, and parents who are looking for ways to get students and children reading about China, and who are often looking for such resources...
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The Making of Modern China

The Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty (1368-1912)

by Jing Liu
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018

The fourth volume in a series, builds on philosophical, economic, and political ideas introduced in the previous volumes. This is the only comic or graphic novel of its kind that addresses Chinese history both accessibly and accurately for all age levels. Taps into librarians, educators,...
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My Year of Dirt and Water

Journal of a Zen Monk's Wife in Japan

by Tracy Franz
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018

MUCH MORE THAN "ZEN." There is a lot here that will appeal to Buddhists, but this is a book from a unique perspective: that of the partner of the Zen monk. How does it feel to be left behind and also to be out of context in Japan? First and foremost, this is a book about seeking, and the...
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by Donald Richie, Yoichi Midorikawa
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015

"An elegiac prose celebration . . . a classic in its genre."—Publishers WeeklyIn this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His existential ruminations on food, culture, and love and his brilliant descriptions of life and landscape...
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Persona

A Biography of Yukio Mishima

by Naoki Inose
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012

Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose relentless obsession with beauty, purity, and patriotism ended in his astonishing self-disembowelment and decapitation in downtown Tokyo in 1970. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, Mishima was the best-known novelist of his time (works...
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Viewed Sideways

Writings on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan

by Donald Richie
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011

This definitive new collection of essays by the writer Time calls "the dean of arts critics in Japan" ranges from Kyogen drama to the sex shows of Shinjuku, from film and Buddhism to Butoh and retro rock 'n' roll, from wasei eigo (Japanese/English) to mizushobai, the fine art of pleasing. Spanning...
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A Lateral View

Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan

by Donald Richie
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998

A masterfully written collection of short essays by the recognized Western expert on Japanese culture and film and the man Time magazine calls "the dean of art critics in Japan." Spanning more than thirty years, Richie interprets his adopted home's creative accomplishments during its rise to economic and cultural power.
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