Cultural Region/Japanese
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Barefoot Gen, Volume 4
$25.00 Add to cartBeautiful new hardcover edition of Barefoot Gen Volume Four! Striking new design with special sturdy binding.
Barefoot Gen is the powerful, tragic, autobiographical story of the bombing of Hiroshima a… [more below]- Series: Barefoot Gen #4
- Author: Nakazawa, Keiji
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0867198346
- Language: English
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Japan: Body Perform Live
$40.00 Read moreExploring the role of the body and performance in the past two decades of Japanese contemporary art
This book surveys the state of Japanese contemporary art in the 2000s, focusing on how bodies and per
- Author: Iida, Shihoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 8836653758
- Language: English
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Mind Over Muscle: Writings from the Founder of Judo
$19.95 Read moreIn 1882 Jigoro Kano (1860-1938) founded Kodokan Judo at Eishoji Temple in Tokyo. It was the culmination of a lifelong devotion to the jujutsu of the past, which he reorganized while taking great care … [more below]
- Author: Kano, Jigoro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1568364970
- Language: English
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El Elefante Desaparece / The Elephant Vanishes
$14.95 Read moreUna maravillosa muestra del talento narrativo de Murakami que nos abre las puertas a otras realidades y nos lleva de la mano a mundos fantásticos.
Un hombre que se obsesiona con la insólita y misteri
- Author: Murakami, Haruki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 6074217785
- Language: Spanish
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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
$30.00 Read moreThe #1 national bestselling “riveting” (The New York Times), “propulsive” (Time) behind-the-scenes account “that reads like a tense thriller” (The Washington Post) of the 116 days leading up to the Am… [more below]
- Series: Chris Wallace’s Countdown
- Author: Wallace, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1982143347
- Language: English
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Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami
$17.95 Read moreHow did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A “fascinating” look at the “business of bringing a best-selling novelist to a global audience” (The… [more below]
- Author: Karashima, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1593765894
- Language: English
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Neon Lights in Tokyo: An Insider’s Guide to the Best Places to Eat, Drink and Explore
$26.99 Add to cartAn insider’s guide to the best places to eat, drink and explore.
Tokyo is a city of almost 40 million people. A metropolis so densely packed with cultures and sub-cultures, with fashions and trends, w- Series: Curious Travel Guides
- Author: Groundwater, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1741177014
- Language: English
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Oishii: The History of Sushi
$27.50 Read moreSushi and sashimi are by now a global sensation and have become perhaps the best known of Japanese foods–but they are also the most widely misunderstood. Oishii: The History of Sushi reveals that sus… [more below]
- Author: Rath, Eric C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1789143837
- Language: English
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The Art of Haiku: Its History Through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
$29.95 Read more- Author: Addiss, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1645471217
- Language: English
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Contemporary Kogin-Zashi: Modern Sashiko Beyond Filling in the Gaps
$26.95 Read moreMaster the art of Kogin-zashi stitching
Kogin-zashi is an iconic form of sashiko that stands on its own apart from Hitomezashi and Moyouzashi as both functional and breathtakingly beautiful. Based on
- Author: Bowlsby, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1644031876
- Language: English
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Tattered Kimonos in Japan: Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II
$34.95 Read moreExamines Japan’s war generation–Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict
Since John Hersey’s Hiroshima–the cl- Series: War, Memory, and Culture
- Author: Rand, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 817321772
- Language: English
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The Samurai
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1613, four low-ranking Japanese samurai, accompanied by a Spanish priest, set sail for Mexico to bargain for trading rights with the West in exchange for a Catholic crusade through Japan. Their ard… [more below]
- Author: Endo, Shusaku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0811227901
- Language: English
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Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
$29.95 Read moreA New Yorker Best Book of the Year
The remarkable life of violinist and teacher Shinichi Suzuki, who pioneered an innovative but often-misunderstood philosophy of early childhood education–now known- Author: Hotta, Eri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0674238230
- Language: English
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Three Assassins
$27.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Pick
From Kotaro Isaka, the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train, the high-octane thriller Three Assassins, set in Tokyo’s cri- Author: Isaka, Kotaro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1419763857
- Language: English
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The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
$17.00 Add to cartThese translated poems were written by two women of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D.
The poems speak intimately of their authors’ sexual longing, fulfillment and- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Komachi, Ono No
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 03 1990
- ISBN10: 0679729585
- Language: English
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Japan: The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago
$37.00 Read moreA comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to Japan’s astonishing animals and plants–and the natural forces that have shaped them
This richly illustrated guide is the first comprehensive and accessibl- Author: Brazil, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691175063
- Language: English
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Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
$19.95 Add to cartOn April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refinerie
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352277
- Language: English
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Ancient Japan: Step Back to the Time of Shoguns and Samurai, with 15 Step-By-Step Projects and Over 330 Exciting Pictures
$12.99 Read moreDiscover the amazing Japanese civilization and learn about a culture that has existed for thousands of years. Facts and features combine with 15 practical projects that enable you to re-create the pas… [more below]
- Series: Hands-On History
- Author: MacDonald, Fiona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1843228246
- Language: English
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The Hare with Amber Eyes (Illustrated Edition): A Hidden Inheritance
$50.00 Read moreThe definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller
Two hundred and sixty-four Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when h- Author: de Waal, Edmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0374168288
- Language: English
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From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems
$18.00 Read moreA career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature.
From the Lost and Found Department, by the trailblazing Joy Kogawa, is a profound work- Author: Kogawa, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 077100513X
- Language: English
