Kodansha International
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Create Your Own Japanese Garden: A Practical Guide
$29.95 Add to cartIn this book, renowned garden designer Motomi Oguchi offers the reader a step-by-step, practical approach to creating Japanese gardens, drawn from a wealth of experience that covers thirty years and e… [more below]
- Author: Oguchi, Motomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 22 2013
- ISBN10: 1568365446
- Language: English
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Japanese Kitchen Knives: Essential Techniques and Recipes
$29.95 Add to cartSales of Japanese kitchen knives are booming in the U.S. But how many people have the skills to use these superbly-crafted tools to full advantage? Now, internationally renowned chef Hiromitsu Nozaki … [more below]
- Author: Nozaki, Hiromitsu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 25 2013
- ISBN10: 1568364903
- Language: English
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Japanese for Young People II: Kanji Workbook
$20.00 Read moreA comprehensive course for teaching Japanese to young adults in English-speaking countries — from The Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT), developers of the renowned Japanese for Busy … [more below]
- Series: Japanese for Young People #3
- Author: Ajalt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 22 2012
- ISBN10: 1568364253
- Language: English
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Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication: A Self-Study Course and Reference
$22.00 Read moreAn indispensable tool for acquiring basic communication skills in a limited amount of time.
With Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication, even absolute beginners can learn to communicat- Author: Kamiya, Taeko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: August 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1568364202
- Language: English
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Kodansha’s Katakana Workbook: A Step-By-Step Approach to Basic Japanese Writing
$14.95 Read moreThis companion volume teaches the basics of katakana, the script for writing loanwords borrowed from English and other languages. The book introduces the characters not in the traditional a-i-u-e-o or… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Anne Matsumoto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1568364776
- 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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The Essence of Karate
$19.95 Add to cartGichin Funakoshi is a legendary figure and the founder of Shotokan karate, the most popular style of Japanese karate, with millions of practitioners worldwide. In The Essence of Karate, Funakoshi crea… [more below]
- Author: Funakoshi, Gichin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1568365241
- Language: English
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Best Karate, Volume 4: Kumite 2
$18.00 Read moreThis book complements volume 3 of this series and, like the earlier volume, includes writings of masters of the martial arts to guide the student toward spiritual awareness and mental maturity. It pla… [more below]
- Series: Best Karate #04
- Author: Nakayama, Masatoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 09 2012
- ISBN10: 1568364652
- Language: English
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The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
$35.00 Add to cartThis book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of things made by an anonymous craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why … [more below]
- Author: Yanagi, Soetsu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 21 2013
- ISBN10: 1568365209
- Language: English
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Best Karate, Volume 1: Comprehensive
$18.00 Read moreAll the basic points of karate arranged systematically for effective learning, step by step–the parts of the body used as natural weapons, the stances, how to block, how to attack, introduction to th… [more below]
- Series: Best Karate #01
- Author: Nakayama, Masatoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 09 2012
- ISBN10: 1568364636
- Language: English
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The Essence of Shinto: Japan’s Spiritual Heart
$22.00 Add to cartIn The Essence of Shinto, revered Shinto master Motohisa Yamakage explains the core values of Shinto and explores both basic tenets and its more esoteric points in terms readily accessible to the mode… [more below]
- Author: Yamakage, Motohisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 07 2012
- ISBN10: 1568364377
- Language: English
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Kodansha’s Hiragana Workbook: A Step-By-Step Approach to Basic Japanese Writing
$14.95 Read moreBeginner-level students wishing to read Japanese need to learn hiragana, the most basic of three Japanese scripts, used for writing words of native origin. Kodansha’s Hiragana Workbook is an all-new, … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Anne Matsumoto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 07 2012
- ISBN10: 1568364415
- Language: English
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Japanese Kitchen Knives: Essential Techniques and Recipes
$29.95 Add to cartSales of Japanese kitchen knives are booming in the U.S. But how many people have the skills to use these superbly-crafted tools to full advantage? Now, internationally renowned chef Hiromitsu Nozaki … [more below]
- Author: Nozaki, Hiromitsu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 25 2013
- ISBN10: 1568364903
- Language: English
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Black Belt Karate: The Intensive Course
$35.00 Read moreIn Black Belt Karate, Hirokazu Kanazawa, the most respected figure in the karate world, offers a systematic approach to basic karate, and provides an intensive training course.
Karate is a martial art- Author: Kanazawa, Hirokazu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 21 2013
- ISBN10: 1568365039
- Language: English
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Kodansha’s Furigana Japanese Dictionary
$60.00 Add to cartA comprehensive, communicative, and practical guide to using Japanese, Kodansha’s Furigana Japanese Dictionary is an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in the Japanese language. It has been e… [more below]
- Series: Kodansha Dictionaries
- Author: Yoshida, Masatoshi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1318
- Publish Date: November 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1568364571
- Language: English
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Kodokan Judo Throwing Techniques
$40.00 Add to cartThroughout the long history of Japan’s martial traditions, judo has evolved into one of the nation’s richest and most revered cultural legacies. The vast array of judo techniques has branched out into… [more below]
- Author: Daigo, Toshiro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1568365772
- Language: English
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Black Rain
$12.00 Read moreBlack Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive “black rain” that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and intervie… [more below]
- Series: Japan’s Modern Writers
- Author: Ibuse, Masuji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1568364172
- Language: English
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Karate-Do: My Way of Life
$9.95 Read moreLinking the time when karate was a strictly Okinawan art of self-defense shrouded in the deepest secrecy and the present day, when it has become a martial art practiced throughout the world, is Gichin… [more below]
- Author: Funakoshi, Gichin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1568364989
- Language: English
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Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
$11.00 Add to cartThis engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars f… [more below]
- Author: Kuroyanagi, Tetsuko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 23 2012
- ISBN10: 1568363915
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan’s Underworld
$11.95 Add to cartThis is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn’t a “good” life, in either sense of the word… [more below]
- Author: Saga, Junichi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 22 2013
- ISBN10: 1568365047
- Language: English
