Had Mrs Gaskell lived in Japan and a century later, she might have written this intimate portrait of four sisters of good family living in Osaka in somewhat straitened circumstances. Their efforts to find a suitable husband for the third sister take place in the years and months just before the great wave of WW2 broke over Japan.
The Makioka Sisters
£12.99
Edition:Hardback978185715155820/05/1993From a Bookshelf nearby
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There is no clear distinction between art, craft and design in Japan. This fascinating book focuses on 25 artisans whose work is intended for every day life.. and is it art?
Craftland Japan
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Baskets: Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art 1850-2015
Hardback £135.00 -
Takes the reader from the earliest written accounts to the present in vivid portraits. The empress Masako is there, and presumably princess Murasaki Shikibu, whose diary is not only fascina... read more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Hardback £25.00