Japan list 52

Tokyo Shopping Guide - 2017 Edition

Cute and creative shops, cafes and places of interest in and around Tokyo

by Marceline Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011

Heading to Tokyo? This kawaii guide book will help you plan your trip, with a focus on the best cute, crafty and creative places to visit. Illustrator, blogger and Japanophile Marceline Smith has visited Japan four times and shares her favourite shops, cafes, sights and tips in this handy guide. ...

Another Kyoto

by Alex Kerr, Kathy Arlyn Sokol
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018

Another Kyoto is an insider's meditation on the hidden wonders of Japan's most enigmatic city. Drawing on decades living in Kyoto, and on lore gleaned from artists, Zen monks and Shinto priests, Alex Kerr illuminates the simplest things - a temple gate, a wall, a sliding door - in a new way. 'A...

The Satsuma Rebellion

Illustrated Japanese History - The Last Stand of the Samurai

by Sean Michael Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018

A gripping graphic novel describing the uprising of 1877, when the old style samurai were crushed in a bloody conflict with the imperial army that ended samurai power in Japan Award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson and acclaimed manga artist Akiko Shimojima team up to tell the...

Kyoto: A Contemplative Guide

by Gouverneur Mosher
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005

This Kyoto travel guide presents the best tourists sites in Japan's spiritual and historical capital. With this guide the visitor needs no further assistance to learn all that a place has to offer. It is factual, concise, and complete. This Japan travel book is generously illustrated with photographs,...

Getting Around Kyoto and Nara

Pocket Atlas and Transportation Guide; Includes Nara, Fushimi, Uji, Mt Hiei, Lake Biwa, Ohara and Kurama

by Colin Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

This Kyoto and Nara travel guide contains everything you need for getting around the region including a pull-out atlas! Kyoto is the number one travel destination for foreigners in Japan, but it can be a difficult place to navigate if you don't know Japanese. This handy new pocket atlas and...

Katana

The Samurai Sword

by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

The Samurai sword of Japan is probably the finest edged weapon ever made. This volume by leading Samurai expert Stephen Turnbull reveals the story of how and why it achieved this distinction. Particular attention is paid to the development of the familiar curved blade from the original straight blades,...

Ninja AD 1460–1650

by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012

The Ninja were the secret agents and assassins of feudal Japan and they remain a subject of enduring fascination. They first emerged during the power struggles of 9th and 10th century Japan, in response to the increasing demand for spies, informants and even assassins, and they were used until the...

Samurai and Ninja

The Real Story Behind the Japanese Warrior Myth that Shatters the Bushido Mystique

by Antony Cummins
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016

The myths of the noble Samurai and the sinister Ninja are filled with romantic fantasy and fallacy. Samurai and Ninja expert Antony Cummins shatters the myths and exposes the true nature of these very real—and very lethal—medieval Japanese warriors. The Samurai and Ninja were, in fact,...

Musashi

An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

by Eiji Yoshikawa
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai--without really knowing what it meant--he...

The Way of the Samurai

The Book of Five Rings, The Hagakure, Bushido: The Soul of Japan

by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Miyamoto Musashi, Inazo Nitobe
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013

Presented here in one volume are three of the seminal texts relating to the Japanese 'Way of the Samurai', essential reading for anyone interested in the Samurai culture of Japan. 'Go Rin No Sho', or 'The Book of Five Rings' is a famous text written by the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi in 1645,...

Lonely Planet Kyoto

by Lonely Planet, Kate Morgan, Rebecca Milner
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet’s Kyoto is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Walk through thousands of vermillion entrance gates towards the summit of Fushimi...

My Asakusa

Coming of Age in Pre-War Tokyo

by Sadako Sawamura
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011

Written near the end of Sadako Sawamura's remarkable life, My Asakusa (Watashi co Asakusa) is a charming collection of autobiographical essays by a truly self-made woman. Recalling Japan at a time of great political turmoil and rapid cultural change, Sawamura shares with us her vignettes of...

Samurai: The Japanese Warrior's [Unofficial] Manual

by Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012

Combines the latest research with contemporary lives, descriptions, and reconstructions to provide a dramatic picture of what it was like to be a samurai. So you think you’d like to be a samurai? It’s 1615 and the samurai, Japan’s elite fighting class, are at the zenith of their...

A Shameful Life

(Ningen Shikkaku)

by Osamu Dazai
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

This is a new translation of the 2nd best-selling novel in Japan (after Soseki's Kokoro); the other translation on the market is No Longer Human, trans. Donald Keene, pub. New Directions; (now 8th edition) and sells 40-50 copies per week title is widely adopted by classrooms as one of the main representatives...

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