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The oldest extant anthology of Japanese classical poetry, compiled in the C8th. A careful selection, beautifully translated.

The Ten Thousand Leaves: Poems from the Man’yoshu ...

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Ravishing woodcuts of traditional Japanese falconry, first published in1863. The notes and poems that accompany each plate are translated into English for the first time.

An Illustrated Mirror of Hawking: The Ehon Taka Kagami ...

Kawanabe Kyosai

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A particularly Japanese sense of the transient is celebrated in these C14th wood carvings, woodcut depictions of water and butterfly dances, tea ceramics, lacquerware and contemporary pieces... read more

A Floating World: Movement and Impermanence in Japanese Art ...

Stephan von der Schulenburg

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An immense volume on the great Japanese photographer. Over 800 pages with 930 photographs. It covers the first twenty years of his career: the earliest existing print to his 1982 photobook, ... read more

Tokyo Polytechnic University Shadai Gallery Daido Moriyama Archive 196 ...

Daido Moriyama

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A gorgeous book on handmade bamboo baskets of intricate and wildly varied design, in an edition limited to 300 copies, published in Kyoto.

Basket of Dreams

Daniel Niles

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The testimony of the last living survivors: agonizingly moving, and cautionary.

Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses

M.G. Sheftall

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Love is a dream - even more so than usual in this new novel, rich with Murakami's blurring of the fantastic and the domestic.

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Haruki Murakami

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A classic and somewhat baroque Japanese thriller from the late 1940s: a bloodied samurai sword is found sticking out of snow, with no surrounding footprints; a newly wedded couple are murder... read more

The Honjin Murders

Seishi Yokomizo

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This Japanese artist began as an oil painter before taking to photography as the best way to conjure memory. Portraits, landscapes and still lifes, sometimes washed with tea or paint: haunti... read more

Masao Yamamoto: Small Things in Silence

Yamamoto Masao

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An intriguing, inventive and often beautiful twist on Brutalism, which incorporates many distinctly Japanese elements.

Brutalist Japan: A Photographic Tour of Post-War Japanese Architecture ...

Paul Tulett

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Edo-period prints of the finery worn by the most glamorous courtesans, actors et al. Kimonos, obis, hair styles, combs and hairpins...

Fashion and the Floating World: Japanese ukiyo-e Prints ...

Anna Jackson

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In the footsteps of the Japanese monk-poet Matsuo Basho, LCD encounters old worlds and new, thatched villages in the mountains and drear concrete edgelands. She has lived and worked in Japan... read more

On the Narrow Road to the Deep North: Journey into a lost Japan ...

Lesley Chan Downer

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A handful of stories about five women whose recent experiences of difficult or painful events are leavened by life-enhancing - even life-altering - moments.

Dead-End Memories

Banana Yoshimoto

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To accompany the exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery - a gallery that the first Yoshida visited in the late 1890s. Something of a hall a of mirrors is going on here, as Yoshida, aware of t... read more

Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking

Monika Hinkel

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An exuberant romp of a thriller: career-driven journalist Rika finds that the best way to secure an interview with a maybe-serial-killer is through her stomach, trying out the rich recipes t... read more

Butter

Asako Yuzuki

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In 1600 Adams was the first English man to step on Japanese shores - one of only nine survivors of a Dutch trading expedition. He became the shogun's advisor and ship builder, and a samurai.... read more

In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams ...

Frederik Cryns

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Three delicious connected stories - and an irresistible title.

Asa: The Girl Who Turned Into a Pair of Chopsticks

Natsuko Imamura

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The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

Christopher Harding

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Tokyo Redux

David Peace

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Dance Dance Dance

Haruki Murakami

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The Nuremberg Trials had their counterpart in Japan. This is a thorough investigation of that process, and its significance to what happened afterwards in Asia.

Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asi ...

Gary J. Bass

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A thorough, readable history of the East's influence, from the Ancients to today.

The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East ...

Christopher Harding

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Tokyo in 1869 is the scene of a puzzling and bloody series of murders.

The Meiji Guillotine Murders

Futaro Yamada

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A collection of nine essays that elaborate on the development and themes of Mingei, the Japanese art movement that found beauty in commonplace objects.

Mingei: Art Without Heroes

Roisin Inglesby

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An account by a London financier of her family in Japan over the last 150 years. The huge changes they have navigated are described with sympathy and careful research.

My Family and Other Samurai

Haruko Fukuda

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Short stories from the author of The Makioka Sisters and In Praise of Shadows. One of Pushkin Press's pleasing small paperbacks.

The Siren’s Lament: Essential Stories

Junichiro Tanizaki

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A jewel-box novella about family secrets and self-discovery, from the author of Kitchen.

The Premonition

Banana Yoshimoto

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These spirits and their bizarre manifestations are not taken straight from the Japanese but rather from the English collections of the Meiji and Taisho eras, including those of Lafcadio Hear... read more

The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories ...

Various

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Eight decades of Japanese architecture and design, approached chronologically. More illustrations than there are pages; the author has spent four of these decades based in Japan.

The Japanese House Since 1945

Naomi Pollock

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The art of imperfection: the work of the aged, self-taught hands of one of Japan's most highly regarded potters. Beautiful work, austere and anchored in ancient techniques of Japanese and Ko... read more

Shiro Tsujimura

Hiroshi Sugimoto

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The great Japanese couturier, who once said that he never finished a garment - it was only complete when it had been worn for several years. His pioneering style was modern, functional yet l... read more

Issey Miyake

Midori Kitamura

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A preoccupation with stillness: a survey of Sugimoto's images, selected from his work over five decades. With textual contributions by many, including Edmund de Waal and Mami Kataoka.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine

James Attlee

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In post-war Tokyo, someone has gone to extreme lengths to keep the past buried: an escapist and intricate detective thriller.

The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction

Robert Goddard

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This tale of three contestants at a piano competition sold a million copies in Japan!

Honeybees and Distant Thunder

Riku Onda

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Death, divination and a succession of murders, set in the crumbling grandeur of a once great house... Another treat for those who loved The Inugami Curse and others by this master of the gen... read more

The Devil’s Flute Murders

Seishi Yokomizo

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This anthology of Japanese poetry dates from the C10th and became the basis of all later vernacular poetry including haiku. The early literary authors Shikibu and Shonagon drew from it too, ... read more

The Kokinshu: Selected Poems

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