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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $71, including
U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXJPN101)		  
Eyewitness Guide Japan  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2013 •  PAPER  • 408 PAGES
This superb guide to all of Japan features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, the volume is an excllent overview of the country. For more detailed practical information, especially for an independent traveler, consider Gateway to Japan. (JPN130, $28.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Japan
The Art and Culture of Japan  •  Nelly Delay
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 160 PAGES
Lavishly illustrated, this handy pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series introduces the art, architecture and culture of Japan. With 165 archival and modern illustrations and a section of original documents. (JPN51, $12.95)		   The Art and Culture of Japan
In Praise of Shadows  •  Junichiro Tanizaki
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2010 •  PAPER  • 73 PAGES
This extended essay by the great Japanese novelist, first published in 1933, offers tremendous insight into traditional Japanese art, architecture and design. Most illuminating. (JPN19, $16.00)		   In Praise of Shadows
Japan, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Jeffrey Angles
ANTHOLOGY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
This marvelous anthology, organized geographically, is both an introduction to Japan and to its contemporary writers. Donald Richie underscores Japan as a small place of great diversity in his appreciative foreword. (JPN187, $14.95)		   Japan, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Japan Map  •  Periplus Maps
2009 •  MAP
Handsome, accurate and regularly updated, this convenient map covers the island nation with insets of the major cities. It has a variety of scales, with the majority at 1:2,000,000. Two Sides. 20x38 inches. (JPN06, $8.95)		   Japan Map



Also Recommended

70 Japanese Gestures  •  Hamiru-aqui   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A clever guide to body language and slang in Japan as demonstrated in 70 witty black-and-white photographs and explanatory text. (JPN193, $9.95)
 		  
Fodor's Tokyo's 25 Best  •  Fodor's Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A shirt-pocket map and practical guide. (JPN05, $12.99)
 		  
Japan Bilingual Map  •  Kodansha International   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This full-color double-sided map includes the entirety of Japan at a scale of 1:500,000, as well as individual maps of Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, Nagoya and Fuji-Hakone. (JPN209, $14.95)
 		  
Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook  •  Yoshi Abe   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy palm-sized guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (JPN136, $8.99)
 		  
Embracing Defeat, Japan in the Wake of WWII  •  John W. Dower   • HISTORY  •  A social and political history of the postwar years in Japan. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, it's an eye-opening account by a leading scholar of Japanese-American relations at MIT. (JPN54, $19.95)
 		  
Geisha  •  Liza Crihfield Dalby   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The observations of an American graduate student who apprenticed as a geisha, interpreting this intriguing role in traditional Japanese society. (JPN49, $26.95)
 		  
Getting Wet, Adventures in the Japanese Bath  •  Eric Talmadge   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  Tokyo-based Talmadge journeys from seaside resorts to mountain retreats and megaplexes in this cultural history of Japan through the tradition of the bath. (JPN197, $22.00)
 		  
Hiroshima  •  John Hersey   • HISTORY  •  Never sensational, this 1946 classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hersey puts a human face on the unthinkable. Hersey explores the tragedy through interviews with residents, scientists and politicians. (JPN20, $7.95)
 		  
Inventing Japan, 1853-1964  •  Ian Buruma   • HISTORY  •  A favorite writer with keen insight about Japan, Buruma offers an admirably succinct, dramatic history of Japan's transformation from feudal state to host of the 1964 Olympics, with a focus on World War II. (JPN139, $12.95)
 		  
Japanese Culture  •  Paul Varley   • HISTORY  •  Valery traces cultural trends from the emergence of Japanese civilization through the present age, touching on religion, gardens, tea ceremony, the visual arts, theatre, literature and cinema. (JPN84, $24.00)
 		  
The Book of Tea  •  Kakuzo Okakura   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A graceful, witty meditation on Japanese aesthetics and culture as reflected through the tea ceremony. A celebrity and cultural ambassador, Okakura was a curator at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. (JPN21, $9.95)
 		  
Unsui, A Diary of Zen Monastic Life  •  Giei Sato   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The daily life of the monastery as depicted in 97 watercolor sketches. Giei Sato looks back at his time as an apprentice with warmth and grace. (JPN145, $22.00)
 		  
Japanese Art  •  Joan Stanley-Baker   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Concise, thoroughly illustrated and comprehensive, this handsome book in the "World of Art" series is a fine survey of Japanese art from the prehistoric period to modern Japan. With 167 illustrations. (JPN08, $19.95)
 		  
Japanese Gardens  •  Gunter Nitschke   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • COMING IN  •  In keeping with the aesthetics of a Japanese garden, Gunter Nitschke has produced a simple but elegant tribute with this collection of photographs. (JPN270, $14.99)
 		  
The Art of the Japanese Garden  •  Michiko Kimura Young  •  David Young   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An illustrated profile of aristocratic gardens, graveled courtyards, Zen and other Japanese gardens, featuring 250 color photos. (JPN181, $55.00)
 		  
36 Views of Mount Fuji, On Finding Myself in Japan  •  Cathy Davidson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A thoughtful set of witty reflections on Japan, Japanese culture and the adventure of living overseas by a talented writer who taught at an all women's university in Japan in the 1980s. (JPN65, $23.95)
 		  
Dave Barry Does Japan  •  Dave Barry   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Good will ambassador and columnist Barry takes no prisoners in this outrageous commentary on Japan and its culture. (JPN234, $15.00)
 		  
Learning to Bow, Inside the Heart of Japan  •  Bruce Feiler   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  As surprising, helpful and informative as it is funny, this is an insightful account of travels and teaching in Japan. Feiler presents anecdotes on the rituals, personality traits and cultural peccadilloes of the Japanese. (JPN111, $13.99)
 		  
The Inland Sea  •  Donald Richie   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Richie's masterpiece, more than a travel account, is a beautiful reflection on all things Japanese by one of its most acute observers. (JPN13, $16.95)
 		  
Black Arrow  •  I. J. Parker   • MYSTERY  •  Detective Akitada must solve a series of brutal slayings in the northern city of Echigo. (JPN201, $15.00)
 		  
Memoirs of a Geisha, A Novel  •  Arthur Golden   • LITERATURE  •  The runaway best-selling novel about a geisha in the celebrated Gion district of Kyoto. A major feat of literary impersonation, the novel is rich in period detail and ceremony. (JPN45, $15.95)
 		  
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories  •  Ryunosuke Akutagawa   • LITERATURE  •  Modern and pre-modern clash in this crisp new edition of Akutagawa's celebrated stories. (JPN317, $17.00)
 		  
South of the Border, West of the Sun  •  Haruki Murakami   • LITERATURE  •  Murakami stirs jazz, neon-lit streets, out of the way shrines, hustle and bustle and wonder into this lyrical tale of love in contemporary Tokyo. (JPN213, $14.95)
 		  
The Hell Screen  •  I. J. Parker   • MYSTERY  •  Suguwara Akitada returns in another mystery of 11th-century Japan, with rich ambiance and superb historical detail. This time, a murder in a temple catches Akitada unprepared. (JPN327, $14.00)
 		  
The Old Capital  •  Yasunari Kawabata  •  J. Martin Holman   • LITERATURE  •  Kawabata captures perfectly the tension between tradition and new ways in postwar Japan in this lyrical novel set in Kyoto. (JPN185, $15.95)
 		  
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon  •  Shonagon Sei  •  Ivan Morris   • LITERATURE  •  Exquisite short essays and vignettes of Japanese court life in the Heian period. (JPN76, $17.00)
 		  
Thousand Cranes  •  Yasunari Kawabata  •  Edward G. Seidensticker   • LITERATURE  •  This novella by the great Kawabata may be Japan's best-known literary work, a story of love, grief and redemption. Kawabata's prose is as economical as the tea ceremony itself, and very beautiful. (JPN34, $15.00)
 		  
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-East Asia  •  Shimba Tadao   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Featuring 800 color photographs, up-to-date range maps and notes on identification. (JPN264, $40.00)
 		  
 
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