Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2005. First Edition (stated). First Printing. Hardcover. Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps is the true story of the notorious samurai corps formed in 1863 to arrest or kill the enemies of the Tokugawa Shogun. The only book in English about the Shinsengumi, it focuses... More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. Reprint. First Printing. Paperback. Morse's publication is an idea book par excellence … Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings is likely to continue to be a valued resource for some time to come."—David and Michiko Young First published in 1886, this classic review of the... More
Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2000. First Tuttle Edition. Seventeenth Printing. Paperback. From a Japan Times book review, circa Apr. 4, 2015: “Confessions of a Mask” is Yukio Mishima’s second novel, published in 1949. The novel hinges on the painful balance between the main character Kochan’s inner experiences and... More
Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2001. First Tuttle Edition. Fifteenth Printing. Paperback. The conflict between traditional and modern Japanese culture is at the heart of this compelling Japanese novel. Kaname is a smug, modern man living in a modern marriage. He gamely allows his wife to become the lover of another... More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2004. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Harp of Burma is Japan's haunting answer to Germany's famous requiem for the First World War, All Quiet on the Western Front. Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize and the subject of an acclaimed film by Ichikawa Kon, Harp... More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2005. First Tuttle Edition. First Printing. Paperback. More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2004. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Paperback. More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2005. First Tuttle Edition. First Printing. Paperback. More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2005. First Tuttle Edition. First Printing. Paperback. More
Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2004. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Paperback. More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2006. Reprint. First Tuttle Edition. Paperback. In Comrade Loves of a Samurai, the theme of homosexual love between the samurai is explored. To the old Japanese such love among samurai was quite permissible. The sons of samurai families were urged to form homosexual alliances while... More
Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2005. First Edition (stated). First Printing. Hardcover. Soul of the Samurai contains modern translations of three classic works of Zen & Bushido. In Soul of the Samurai, bestselling author and respected translator Thomas Cleary reveals the true essence of the Bushido code or Zen warrior teachings... More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2006. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Paperback. Burial in the Clouds is the first English language translation of Hiroyuki Agawa's classic novel of World War II, Kumo No Bohyo. A powerful novel, it takes the form of the war-time diary of a young Japanese college... More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2006. Reprint. First Tuttle Edition. Japanese Edition (text in English). Paperback. From the Japan Times book review, Nov. 16, 2013: “Light and Dark” is one of the late Natsume Soseki’s longest and most famous masterpieces. Although the allure is partly due to its lack of... More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2006. Reprint. Japanese Edition (text in English). First Tuttle Edition. Paperback. From the New York Times, Dec. 30, 1972: “The Japanese Mistress” is constructed as delicately as a cat's cradle, yet perfectly persuasive at every, point. The ending, really the endings, will surprise everyone, arid... More
Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2005. First Tuttle Edition. Paperback. More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2006. Shin Misho (illus). Reprint. Paperback. Geisha in Rivalry, first published as Udekurabe in 1918, has a secure place among Kafu Nagai's masterpieces. Set against the backdrop of Tokyo's Shimbashi geisha district, a company of vivid characters play out their drama of illicit love, shady... More
Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2000. Reprint. Abridged. Paperback. Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel—and after more than a millennium, this seminal work continues to enchant readers throughout the world. Lady Murasaki Shikibu and her tale's hero, Prince... More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. Reprint. Japanese Edition (text in English). Paperback. First Tuttle Edition published in 1979. A Hundred Verses from Old Japan is an early translation of one of Japan's most famous anthologies of poetry. This gem of Japanese poetry has preserved its charm for almost a.... More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2006. Reprint. Japanese Edition (text in English). Paperback. Jiro Osaragi's Homecoming, originally published in 1950 as Kikyo, was the first contemporary Japanese novel to be translated into English after World War II. Against a backdrop of often confrontational and coincidental meetings and partings, fleeting joys and... More
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. Despite the turbulent times in which he lived, the Buddhist priest Kenkō met the world with a measured eye. As Emperor Go-Daigo fended off a challenge from the usurping Hojo family, and Japan stood at the brink of a dark political era, Kenkō held... More
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. Reprint. Paperback. From a Japan Times book review, May 11, 2017: Any list of Japan’s top 10 films invariably includes the 1954 movie version of “Twenty-four Eyes,” directed by Keisuke Kinoshita and starring Hideko Takamine in one of her signature roles as schoolteacher Hisako Oishi... More
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. Reprint. Seventeenth Printing. Paperback. Boxed Set. Translated with introduction by Edward G. Seidensticker. Unabridged in 2 volume set. Centuries before Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji was already acknowledged as a classic of Japanese literature. Over the past century, this book has gained worldwide acceptance... More
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing. Japanese literary history usually classifies Koda Rohan as an idealist writer, and the three stories included in this anthology belong to this genre. The Five-Storied Pagoda, one of Koda's best-known works, is the moving account of a misunderstood carpenter who has been inspired to undertake the... More
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu. This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of... More