New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Biographical sketches of six Japanese writers and public figures: Nogi Maresuke Mori Ogai Nakae Chomin Kawakami Hajime Masamune Hakucho Mishima Yukio. More
London: Pushkin Press, 2020. Tom Clohosy Cole (cover art). Second Printing. Softcover. ‘One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer’ Haruki Murakami The stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of the darkness of our desires. From an..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. First Princeton Paperback Edition. Second Printing. Paperback. With a new foreword by Patricia G. Steinhoff. More
Los Angeles: TokyoPop Inc., 2004. First Printing. Paperback. The gangs of Tokyo rule the streets of their own territories and remain calm until territories are crossed, rival members are hurt, and former friends meet again. From Publishers Weekly: A sensation in Japan when it was originally published in..... More
London: Granta Books, 2019. Trade Paperback. Translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while..... More
London: Granta Books, 2020. Ginny Tapley Takemori (tr.). First UK Edition. Paperback. As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2016. First paperback edition. First Printing. Paperback. More all-ages adventures with the one-eyed yokai boy, now in a kid-friendly format! The Birth of Kitaro collects seven of Shigeru Mizuki's early, and beloved, Kitaro stories, making them available for the first time in English, in an..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2013. Malcolm Macrae-Gibson (ed.), Tom Devlin (ed.). First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Meet Kitaro. He’s just like any other boy, except for a few small differences: he only has one eye, his hair is an antenna that senses paranormal activity, his geta sandals are jet-powered, and he..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2016. Paperback. Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon is the second volume in the adventures of Shigeru Mizuki’s bizarre yokai boy Kitaro and his gaggle of otherworldly friends. These seven stories date from the golden age of Gegege no Kitaro, when Mizuki had perfected the balance of folklore, comedy..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2017. Paperback. In the fourth installment of Shigeru Mizuki’s Kitaro series readers meet a whole new cast of yokai monsters, including a giant Cyclops, the villainous Blackbeard, and a malefic sea captain who attempts to summon hell on Earth. The lead adventure “Yokai Cloth,” follows Kitaro..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2017. Paperback. Kitaro and the Great Tanuki War features adventures of Shigeru Mizuki’s beloved yokai boy. In the epic title story, Kitaro battles the tanuki, a Japanese animal that features prominently in the country’s yokai legends. The furry beasts draw on the power of the blood..... More
Tokyo, Japan: 1964. Softcover. Text in English and Japanese. Captions of prints in Japanese. 1 essay by Shiko Munakata and another by Soetsu Yanagi, both in English. Chronology, in English, of Munakata's life and career from 1903 to 1963. More
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2019. First US Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. A delightful bestseller when first published in Japan, this charming illustrated book takes readers inside the magical realm of books, libraries, and bookstores. At The I Wonder Bookstore, customers come in and ask the owner countless variations on..... More
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2006. Reprint. Paperback. First published as Hanamushiro in 1948, the setting for The Flower Mat is eighteenth-century Japan, a time when familes were bound together by a rigid code of honor and individual lives were of necessity valued far less than the interests of the group... More
London: Pushkin Vertigo, 2019. Louise Heal Kawai (tr.). Fourth Printing. Paperback. The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself-a maze of sloping floors and strange staircases, full of..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. A Smithsonian Top History Book of 2016 A Japan Times Best Book About Japan of 2016 A fascinating look at the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor--the warnings, clues and missteps--by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world A thirtieth-century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a red-haired fish girl, and a furry woodland spirit—what do these..... More
Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1989. Ronald P. Dore (translation and foreword). Second Edition. Third Printing. Paperback. More
New York: John Weatherhill, 1980. Sosei Kuzunishi (photographs). Second Printing. Softcover. "Borrowed Scenery" and "The Great Within The Small" are two fundamental concepts of Japanese garden design. They find expression in the two distinctive garden types that form the theme of the present book: the open garden that gains greater..... More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. For decades, Japan has been at the cutting edge of much technology, becoming an industrial superpower along the way. However, it is not widely acknowledged that Japan's status as technological leader is the result of historical processes over centuries. This landmark book..... More
Tokyo: The Yoseido Gallery, 1970. Paperback. More
Tokyo: The Yoseido Gallery, 1969. Paperback. Staple-bound. A catalog of artistic works with images, some in color. More
Tokyo: The Yoseido Gallery, 1968. Paperback. A catalog of artistic works by Japanese artists with illustrations, some in color. More
Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies / University of Hawaii, 2005. Santos Barbasa Jr. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. A review of the book from the Japan Times by Donald Richie: Relations between Japan and China may be troubled right now, but then they often have..... More
Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1971. Seventh Printing. Paperback. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain is a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age — the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with..... More
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